CLERMONT, Fla. -- The Elizabethtown College softball team split on its final day of THE Spring Games.
Maddie Reever homered to tie the game and the Blue Jays were able to walk it off against Wentworth in game one.
Brooke Huczko recorded her 100th career hit in game two against Clark.
GAME 1: ELIZABETHTOWN 8, WENTWORTH 7
The Leopards got ahead 3-0, but Elizabethtown responded in the back half of the first.
Morgan Carr sent a sac fly to left to score
Hannah Long to cut it to 3-1.
Lily Baldwin singled to center to score Huczko as the Jays trailed by one entering the second.
The teams traded runs over the next three innings and Wentworth led 5-3 going into the fifth. After
Mikaela Benner held the Leopards in the top of the fifth, Baldwin helped tie the game for Etown with a two-run double to plate
Emma Dahl and
Sarah Birner.
WIT took the lead in the sixth, only to see the Jays tie it back up on Huczko's RBI single to score
Lauren Leshak.
Yet again, the Leopards pulled in front with a run in the seventh, leaving Elizabethtown to three final outs to tie it or win it.
Reever hit a leadoff home run to left field, her first of the season, which tied it at 7-7.
Skye Zolomij singled up the middle and then stole second to put the game-winning run in scoring position. Leshak walked as the Jays as had two with no outs. Long stepped in and her high chopper toward first was misplayed behind the bag, allowing Zolomij to get around third and score easily to win it for Etown.
Benner earned her first win of the season with 6.2 innings of relief work. Baldwin had a team-high three hits while four other Blue Jays had a pair each.
GAME 2: CLARK 8, ELIZABETHTOWN 7
Lily Baldwin knocked home her team-leading 15th RBI in the top of the first as the Blue Jays posted two runs to take a 2-0 lead.
Clark evened up the game with two of their own in the second inning and the game went 2-2 through the third and fourth and into the fifth inning.
Huczko drove in two with her single to right, plating
Hannah Long and
Taylor Sherry. Long was 3-for-4 at the plate in the game.
Emma Dahl reached on a bunt and a throw away let pinch runner
Courtney Oliver score from third to give Elizabethtown a 5-2 lead.
The Cougars responded with a big sixth inning, scoring six to grab an 8-5 lead and leaving the Jays down to three outs, similar to how they went into the seventh in their first game of the day.
Huczko drove a ball to center that dropped in for her 100th career hit and advanced to second on the throw home.
Cassidy Blaskopf and Baldwin scored on the play as Elizabethtown now trailed 8-7 with one out.
Clark got the final two outs without allowing Huczko to score as they hung on for the one-run victory.
Elizabethtown's next games are Friday, March 13, at Neumann, for a non-conference doubleheader.
