MADISON, N.J. --Â The Elizabethtown College softball team split at Drew on Sunday, falling in game one 8-0 in five innings before outlasting the Rangers 5-4 in eight innings.
DREW 8, ELIZABETHTOWN 0 (F/5)
It was all Drew in the opening game of the doubleheader as the Rangers jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead after the first inning.
Teagan Bradley threw all five innings and also helped herself at the plate going 2-for-2 with three RBIs in the game.
Drew made it 7-0 in the third and 8-0 in the fourth before Bradley ended it in the fifth, stranding two runners on base for Elizabethtown.
Hannah Long,
Sarah Birner,
Brooke Huczko, and
Cassidy Blaskopf each had hits.
ELIZABETHTOWN 5, DREW 4 (F/8)
Despite being down 4-0 after three innings, the Blue Jays battled back with two runs in the fourth that started with
Jess Dunn's double to left field.
Kristen Aydelotte doubled down the left field line to score the first-year to make it 4-1. After Huczko singled through the left side, a play at third base resulted in an error by the Drew defense, and that allowed Aydelotte to score.
Aydelotte drove in
Maddie Reever in the sixth to make it 4-3. Reever led off the sixth with a single followed by a stolen base. She then moved up to third on a fly out to center.
After holding the Rangers scoreless over the last three innings and keeping the score at 4-3 entering the seventh,
Emma Dahl led off with a pinch hit triple.
Reever hit a two-out single up the middle to score Dahl and tie the game at 4-4 and get it to extras.
In the eighth, Aydelotte smacked a go-ahead homer to put Elizabethtown in front for the first time.
Drew had the bases loaded and a chance to win it in the bottom half of the inning, but Dunn did not allow a run as the Jays got the split with a game two win.
Etown hosts Moravian on Tuesday, April 29, at 3 and 5 p.m.
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