ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Sophomore
Skye Zolomij hit her first career home run and junior
Mikaela Benner threw a complete game as the Elizabethtown College softball team split with Penn State Altoona on Sunday at The Nest.
ELIZABETHTOWN 6, PENN STATE ALTOONA 3
The Blue Jays scored a run in each of the first three innings to go ahead 3-0 while Benner kept the Lions quiet with a no-hitter threw three innings.
Jess Dunn drove in
Brooke Huczko in the first,
Kristen Aydelotte singled to center to score
Izzy Akelaitis, and then Zolomij smacked her first dinger over the left field fence on the first pitch she saw in the third inning to make it 3-0. Reever drove in Zolomij in the fifth after the Lions finally got on the board in the fourth.
Huczko hit a two-RBI single in the sixth to tack on two insurance runs as
Emma Dahl and
Cassidy Blaskopf scored on the play.
Benner only allowed three hits and struck out a season-high seven batters in her complete game win.
PENN STATE ALTOONA 7, ELIZABETHTOWN 1
The offense had trouble getting going in the second game. Altoona went ahead 3-0 in the first and could have had more, but a line out double play to Dunn in the circle put up two outs in one play, just when the Jays needed them. Dunn worked out of the jam to keep it at 3-0.
Blaskopf got the Jays on the board with her sacrifice squeeze to get
Ali Williams home in the second.
That was the only run Etown would get as Madison Kennedy limited the Jays' offense to five hits over seven innings.
Reever had a pair of hits in game two.
Elizabethtown will play at Catholic on Wednesday, April 2.
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