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Box Score 2 MANSFIELD, Conn. – Ashlee McGan pitched a complete game five hitter with six strikeouts as the Keene State College softball team picked up a split with Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday. The Owls won the first game 6-3 and fell in the second 6-2.
In the first game, Keene State (7-9, 2-2 Little East) scored five unearned runs in the sixth after a two-out error to erase a three-run deficit on the way to a 6-3 victory over Eastern (16-4, 5-1 Little East). The Keene win was only its second in the last 13 meetings between the programs.
After junior shortstop Alyssa Hancock and Rossetti each doubled to give Eastern a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap, Georgetti socked her third home run in the last nine games to make it 3-0, and Valentine (7-2) made them stand up with relief help from sophomore lefty Summer Cipriani. Valentine gave up only three hits and two unearned runs before Cipriani stranded two runners to close out the sixth and tossed a 1-2-3 seventh for her first career save.
After Keene scored two unearned runs in the fourth on two singles and an infield error, the Warriors answered with single runs in each of their final three at-bats. A single by Cipriani, infield error, walk and hit batsman accounted for the run in the fourth, sophomore pinch hitter Kristyn Ryan's RBI double made it 5-2 in the fifth, and junior catcher Taylor Smyth's single drove in Cipriani (leadoff single) with the run in the sixth.
In the first game, Eastern took an early 3-0 lead on a triple by Hancock and ground ball, a double by Georgetti and sophomore centerfielder Samantha Bardos' infield single and an outfield error. Keene got one back in the fourth on freshman Brittany DaMota's two-out RBI single, then knocked out Eastern senior righty Erin Miller by scoring five unearned runs in the sixth on four hits and two Eastern errors. A throwing error with two out and two on accounted for the first run, junior centerfielder Stephanie Long put the Owls ahead with a two-run single, and after another error, No. 3 hitter Aliza Guerrero made it 6-3 with an a two-run double.
Georgetti and Hancock each had three hits and scored two runs on the day. Guerrero, who left the first game briefly after being hit by a pitch in the first inning, had three hits, as did freshman third baseman Shae Crosby. Guerrero also reached twice on hit-by-pitch.
KSC travels to UMass Dartmouth on Sunday for a makeup doubleheader that was scheduled for March. 28. Eastern Connecticut hosts the Corsairs on Tuesday afternoon.
(Story courtesy ECSU)
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