ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Freshman
Kristen Aydelotte was a home run short of a cycle in game one Sunday at The Nest against DeSales. The Elizabethtown College softball team won game one by a final of 11-4 before dropping game two in five innings, 14-3. Aydelotte had three extra base hits in the first game and was 4-for-4 at the plate in a Blue Jays' win.
GAME 1: ELIZABETHTOWN 11, DeSALES 4
It was a quick start for the Blue Jays as they brought in five runs in the bottom half of the first inning.
Ashley Mistichelli started things with a two-RBI double to right center to score
Emily Polimeni and
Kaitlyn Witmer.
Paige Phillips' sac fly RBI made it 3-0 as
Kadyn Crisswell scored. Aydelotte launched a triple to center to score Mistichelli easily from third.
Megan Thomas completed the five-run first for Elizabethtown (10-16) with a RBI base knock through the right side.
DeSales (9-12) got a few runs back, but Etown scored twice in the fourth, once in the fifth, and three times in the sixth.
Crisswell and Phillips each had RBI doubles in the fourth inning, which made it 7-3.
Ashley Judd flied out to center, but was able to score Aydelotte from third. Then, in the sixth,
Cassidy Dodds had a pinch-hit two-run double to right center. Thomas knocked in her second RBI of the game with another single to right.
Phillips, who would earn her seventh win of the season, closed out the game in the seventh. The senior had six strikeouts in another complete game effort.
Crisswell, Mistichelli, and Phillips each had two hits apiece, Thomas finished with three, and Aydelotte went perfect at the plate.
GAME 2: DeSALES 14, ELIZABETHTOWN 3
The Bulldogs flipped the script in game two. They led 2-1 after the first inning on a two-RBI single. Phillips got a run back in the bottom half with her RBI single through the left side to score Crisswell.
A seven-run third helped DeSales break open the game as they grabbed a commanding 9-1 lead.
That lead grew in the fourth with another five runs.Â
Courtney Fitzsimons had an RBI single in the fourth and Phillips notched her second RBI of the game in the fifth with a double to center to bring home Crisswell for the second time in the game.
Witmer, Crisswell, and Phillips ended with multi-hit efforts for the Blue Jays in game two. Dodds and Fitzsimons also had hits in the game.
Elizabethtown will host Hood on Tuesday, April 12, at 2 and 4 p.m. in a makeup doubleheader from earlier in the season.
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