April 28, 2007

Game One Box Score, Game Two Box Score

DAYTON, Ohio - The University of Dayton softball team split a pair of games with Atlantic 10 opponent La Salle on Saturday as the Flyers took game one, 4-2, but fell to the Explorers in the finale, 4-1. With the split, Dayton is now 11-24 overall and 3-10 in the Atlantic 10, while the Explorers are 15-20 and 7-8 in the conference.

Mollie Schrank went 1-for-4 with a pair of RBI in the opener as Tamsyn Kellough went 2-for-2 and Molly Meyer went 1-for-3 with a run scored. Maggie Stopka, Laura Matthews, and Ellie Malchow also scored a run each for Dayton in the first game.

Junior Erin Lafayette had a strong performance in the circle for the Flyers. LaFayette struck out five while scattering seven hits and surrendering six walks to earn the game one win.

Dayton jumped on board first in the second inning when Kellough blasted a single to right field. Stopka and Matthews both reached on a fielder's choice as Kellough was put out at third. In the next at bat, Malchow also reached first on a fielder's choice to knock in Stopka. Matthews stole home to put another up for UD as Meyer singled and stole second. Schrank reached first on an error to put two more up to give the Flyers a 4-0 lead early on.

In the third La Salle scored a run as Kate Gulikis advanced on a hit-by-pitch and was knocked in by a Mary Pat Conville single.

The Explorers looked to even the score, but would only pull within two scoring a final run in the bottom of the seventh as Dayton won the opener, 4-2.

In the finale of the twinbill, UD scored first in the top of the first after Christine Eggers doubled and Schrank and Blair Crabtree hit back-to-back singles for the 1-0 lead.

But the Explores answered back with three runs in the third on two singles, a fielder's choice, and a double.

La Salle put one more run up in the sixth behind a Laura Dezolt homerun as the Flyers remained scoreless for the rest of the game eventually losing 4-1 in the finale.

Eggers went 2-for-4 with a run scored as Sheena Rothwell posted a 2-for-3 hitting effort for Dayton.

Chelsea Grosenski suffered the loss giving up four earned runs on five hits with three strikeouts.

Dayton returns to action Sunday, April 29 to take on Fordham in Bronx, New York. The Atlantic 10 doubleheader is set to begin at 12 p.m. ET.