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Box Score 2 MIDDLEBURY, Vt.--Christy McGraw singled in Aliza Guerrero in the top of the seventh inning to give the Keene State College softball team a 7-6 win in the second game of a doubleheader with Middlebury College on Sunday afternoon. The Panthers took a 7-4 win in the opening game.
The Owls are 10-10, and the Panthers are now 14-8.
Game Two
The Owls mashed out 10 hits, scoring twice late on to grab victory. KSC put a five-spot on the board, sending 10 batters to the plate in the second inning. Rachel Boynton and Katie Newell started the frame with back-to-back singles, moving to third on McGraw's sacrifice bunt.
Molly Dussault drove in the first run with an RBI single to left center to bring in Boynton, and Newell came home on Kayla Votto's bunt single. Stephanie Long kept the rally going with an RBI single up the middle, and a passed ball brought in Votto. Guerrero brought in the fifth run of the inning with a single to shortstop.
The Panthers got back four runs in the bottom of the second on an RBI triple off the bat of Kimber Sable. After Christina Bicks and Hye-Jin Kim walked to load the bases, Carlyn Vachow brought Middlebury within a run with a double down the left field line.
Middlebury went in front in the fourth inning. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases, and Emily Kraytenberg made it 6-5 with a single to right-center.
KSC put a rally together in the sixth, putting the tying run 60 feet from home when Newell singled, moved to second on a walk, and third on Votto's sacrifice bunt, but Long grounded out to first to end the threat.
The Owls finally pushed in front in the top of seventh. Sara Bracken started the inning with a walk, and a Middlebury error put Guerrero aboard. A wild pitch moved up both runners, and Boynton's single to right field plated Bracken and tied the game. Newell sacrificed Boynton to second, setting the stage for McGraw, who delivered a single to left that put KSC in front for good.
Mariah Crisp, who had come on in relief in the fourth inning, allowed a one-out double to Sarah Freyre, but got Alex Scibetta to foul out to the catcher and struck out Emily Smith to end the game.
Boynton and Newell each had a pair of hits. Crisp picked up the win with four innings of four hit relief, striking out four.
Game One
Middlebury scored three times in the fifth inning to snap a 4-4 tie for a 7-4 win in game one.
Keene State had taken a 1-0 lead in the first inning, when a single by Long, and a walk to Guerrero put two runners on. Morgan Fallon was hit by a pitch to load the bases, followed by a walk to Heather Pelletier to force home a run. The Owls added another run in the third. Pelletier picked up her second RBI of the game by singling in Guerrero, who had led off with a walk and stole second.
Kim had a bases clearing double to left-center in the third inning, and Middlebury made it 4-2 when Freyre singled in Kim.
KSC tied the game with two runs in the next half inning, when Votto singled with one out and scored on Long's double to right-center. Long took third on Bracken's flyout, and scored on a wild pitch to level affairs.
Middlebury took the lead for good in the fifth, when Sable doubled and scored on an error. Freyre brought in another run with a single down the left field line, and another KSC error made it 7-4.
Long and Votto each had a pair of hits for the Owls. Crisp went the distance, striking out five in six innings.
Keene State returns to Little East Conference action on Tuesday night, traveling to UMass-Boston for a doubleheader that begins at 3:30 p.m. Middlebury travels to Skidmore on April 16 for a twinbill that begins at 3:30.
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