MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- Seven players had multi-hit efforts in game two for the Elizabethtown College softball team Monday evening at Penn State Harrisburg. The Blue Jays fell in game one but came back for a 5-3 win in the second game to split with the Lions.
Brooke Huczko and
Rachel Allen each had three hits in game two.
Game 1: Penn State Harrisburg 7, Elizabethtown 2
Elizabethtown (5-9) trailed 6-0 before getting on the board in the sixth inning.
Sarah Birner scored on
Emily Polimeni's fielder's choice RBI.
Jenna Davis singled in
Kristen Aydelotte in the inning, but those were the only two runs the Blue Jays would get.
Maddie Reever had a team-high two hits in the game. Birner,
Skye Zolomij, Aydelotte, Davis and
Hannah Long also had hits for Etown.
Game 2: Elizabethtown 5, Penn State Harrisburg 3
RBIs from Reever and Birner put the Jays ahead in the first inning of game two.
Allen and
Olivia Prosser scored safely on a defensive error in the second inning to extend Etown's lead to 4-0.
Emily Polimeni added an RBI base hit to score Long as the Jays made it a three-run second inning.
Penn State Harrisburg (10-4) was limited to just a run over the first five innings, but did pull two back in the sixth as they trailed by two going into the seventh.
Mikaela Benner, who took over for starter
Gianna Anzideo in the sixth, got three straight popups in the seventh to end the game.
Huczko and Allen each led the way with three hits. Long, Polimeni,
Courtney Oliver, Birner and
Kassidy Kehoe added two hits apiece. Reever and Prosser also registered a hit in the game. Huczko smacked a triple to center while Allen and Reever recorded doubles for EC.
The Blue Jays remain on the road and play at Hood on Wednesday, March 27, at 3 and 5 p.m.
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