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Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla.--Aliza Guerrero's big day at the plate powered the Keene State College softball team to a pair of wins on Friday morning, 6-2 over Wisconsin-Stout and 2-1 over Bowdoin College.
Keene State improves to 4-6 and has won three straight. For the day, Guerrero was 4-for-5 with a home run, two triples, two RBI, and a pair of runs scored.
Wisconsin-Stout
A complete game effort from Mariah Crisp and some timely hitting gave the Owls a 6-2 win.
KSC scored twice in the third, fourth, and sixth innings. Sara Bracken drew a walk with two outs in the bottom of the third, and Guerrero cracked her second home run of the season to center field.
Caroline McSherry reached on a fielder's choice and Brittany DaMota had an infield single in the fourth inning, and after Kayla Votto loaded the bases with another infield hit, Stephanie Long made it 4-0 with a two-run double to right field.
Sam Murphy led off the sixth with a pinch hit walk and came around on DaMota's double to left, and DaMota scored on a Stout error.
The six runs were plenty of support for Crisp (2-3), who struck out six and allowed two unearned runs in her second complete game of the year. Stephanie Long also drove in two runs for KSC.
Bowdoin
Ashlee McGan twirled a four hitter in another complete game effort as the Owls picked up their second win of the day.
KSC took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second, as Katie Newell hit a one-out double and scored on Shae Crosby's single to right field. The Owls added a second run in the sixth. Guerrero was hit by a pitch to open the inning, and took third when Morgan Fallon roped a double to left field. Jen Galavotti moved up both runners with an RBI groundout to second base.
That run would prove critical, as the Polar Bears scored an unearned run in the top of the seventh, and had the tying run on third base, but McGan got Alana Luzzio to ground out to second base to end the game.
McGan finished three strikeouts and one unearned run in seven innings to improve to 2-1 in the season.
The Owls close out the trip against Allegheny (Pa.) and the University of Chicago.
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