MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Dickinson softball team cracked opened their Spring Break slate on Sunday afternoon with a pair of games against PSU-Schuylkill and Bridgewater State University at the North Myrtle Beach Complex. The Red and White claimed a 6-5 win against the Lions, before suffering their first loss of the season 5-2 to the Bears.


Final Score - DEVILS 6, Lions 5
Records - DEVILS 5-1 | PSU-Schuylkill - 0-1
Pitching Decision - W - Erin McMahon (3-0) | L - Emma Crisswell (0-1) 

Inside the Game

• After a scoreless first inning and a half, Dickinson went to work in the last of the second getting a leadoff single from Abby Kohan, before three batters later Hope Josti collected an RBI two-out single to right for a 1-0 lead through two.
• PSU tried to respond in the top of the third as two singles had runners at first and second with one out for Megan Marks. Dickinson pitcher Emory Hadden would prevent any damage though by getting Marks to line into the inning-ending double play.
• However, an error and two singles during the top of the fourth did tie the game for the Lions.
• The Devils had the immediate answer in the ensuing half-inning when singles by Lauren Routzahn and Laia Gwathmey had two on with two away. Back-to-back knocks to left from Hadden and Marah Goldman led to three crossing the plate to open up a 4-1 edge entering the fifth.
• PSU would then mount a massive rally over the next two frames as two singles and an error resulted in one coming in during the fifth, while a pair of triples, a double and single scored three an inning later to make it 5-4 Lions as the game went to the last of the sixth.
• A two-bagger for Josti and single to left off the stick of Goldman brought the Red and White level with two down, before two batters later Kaylie Renner smacked a pitch to center for the 6-5 edge sending the Lions to "last call".
• McMahon who had replaced Hadden in the sixth, used two flyouts and a strikeout of Marks to end the game.

• Hits - Goldman and Josti (2)
• RBIs - Goldman (3), Hadden, Josti and Renner (1)
• Runs Scored - Six players tied (1)
• Doubles - Josti (1)

• Hadden - 5.0 ip, 10 hits, 4 runs (3 earned), 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
• McMahon (W) - 2.0 ip, 2 hits, 1 runs (earned), 0 walks, 3 strikeouts

Final Score - Bears 5, DEVILS 3
Records - DEVILS 5-1 | Bridgewater State - 1-1
Pitching Decision - W - McKayla Cusack (1-0) | L - Abby Kohan (2-1) 

Inside the Game

• The first three-and-a-half innings went by with no score as BSU recorded the only three hits up to that point.
• Jane Lloyd opened up the last of the fourth by being hit by a pitch, before with two down Routzahn smoked a double to center for the Devils first knock of the game and a 1-0 lead after four.
• After a quiet top of the fifth, Lily Hartley walked, Grace Melchionno reached on a fielder's choice and Elizabeth Raefski legged out an infield single to load the bases with no one out. Following a strikeout by Jessie Sandusky, Lloyd provided a sacrifice fly to left driving home one before Kohan lined out for the final out of the frame (2-0).
• The Bears used the next two innings to flip the game completely on its head as in the sixth three singles led to BSU getting on the board making it 2-1. Then in the seventh, a triple, fielder's choice and error knotting the score at 2-2 and still leaving two on with one down. That brought Angelina Lynch to the dish and ripped a three-run inside the park home run inside the left-field line making it 5-2.
• Dickinson used single from Melchionno, Sandusky and Lloyd to fill the cushions for Kaylie Renner. She would reach on an error to score one, before a popout by McMahon closed out the game.

• Hits - Lloyd, Melchionno, Raefski, Routzahn and Sandusky (1)
• RBIs - Lloyd and Routzahn (1)
• Runs Scored - Grace Dibuono-Krafick, Hartley and Lloyd (1)
• Doubles - Routzahn (1)

• Kohan (L) - 6.1 ip, 9 hits, 3 runs (earned), 0 walks, 3 strikeouts
• Renner - 0.2 ip, 2 hits, 2 runs (earned), 1 walk, 0 strikeouts

• Dickinson (5-1) continues theirr Spring Break in Myrtle Beach tomorrow morning at 9am when the Red and White take on Cairn University, before taking on PSU-Altoona (1pm).

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