MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- Senior
Maddie Reever recorded her 100th career hit and the Elizabethtown College softball team earned win No. 20, the most since 2013, in Tuesday's non-conference split at Penn State Harrisburg. The Lions took game one, 5-3, while the Blue Jays took game two, 7-3.
GAME 1: PENN STATE HARRISBURG 5, ELIZABETHTOWN 3
Elizabethtown looked like it would be set up for a non-conference sweep after going ahead right away 3-0 in the first.
Lily Baldwin scored on an error play as
Brooke Huczko reached safely on her sac bunt attempt.
Maddie Reever's sac fly to right made it 2-0 and Huczko would later score on
Sarah Birner's RBI single up the middle.
The Lions were held scoreless through four, but got two runs in the fifth to make it 3-2.
Penn State Harrisburg took the lead in the sixth with a three-run inning and closed out the Jays in the seventh to earn the comeback win.
GAME 2: ELIZABETHTOWN 7, PENN STATE HARRISBURG 3
Etown was able to avenge the game one loss, though it was PSH that scored first in game two.
The Lions had a 1-0 lead after two but it didn't last long as Elizabethtown was level in the top of the third on
Jess Dunn's RBI single to score
Emma Dahl. Dahl was in to pinch run for
Emily Bittner after one of her three hits put her on base. Baldwin also had three hits in the game as six players overall had multi-hit efforts. Reever's 100th career hit came in the second in her first at-bat, where she singled through the left side.
After
Mikaela Benner took the first inning and
Aubrey Buckmaster threw the second,
Julia Bergen came in for the Blue Jays in the third and pitched the remainder of the game.
EC gave her the run support necessary with a six-run fourth inning. Baldwin and Huczko each had two-RBI hits, a single for Baldwin and a triple for Huczko, to take a tie game and turn it into a 5-1 advantage for the Blue Jays. Bittner and Birner added RBI hits in the inning as the lead grew to 7-1.
Penn State Harrisburg got a run in the fourth and one in the seventh, but Bergen earned her third win of the season in the end with two strikeouts in her five innings.
The Blue Jays host Lycoming on Saturday, May 2, at 1 and 3 p.m.
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