Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Sam Ingersoll tied the school record for home runs in a single season with a blast in each game, but host West Chester dropped both ends of a doubleheader with visiting Edinboro in a non-league PSAC crossover softball duel on a sunny and very windy Saturday afternoon.
West Chester (26-10) and Edinboro (15-12) combined for 11 home runs in the two games thanks to a 12 mph wind blowing straight out to left field. The Fighting Scots took game one, 13-3, in five innings and turned around to claim a slugfest, 12-11, in eight innings in the nightcap.
Ingersoll’s second home run of the day in the bottom of the seventh inning of game two knotted things up and sent the contest into extra innings. It was her 11th home run of the season, tying former great Kristin Smereczynski’s mark set in 1997.
Katie Kmiecinski smashed a grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning that tied the score at 10-10 originally. However, Edinboro’s Caiti Weber homered to lead off the top of the seventh to put the Fighting Scots back on top.
After Ingersoll tied things up in the bottom half of the seventh, Edinboro went up again in the eighth when Stephanie Cassidy got one up into the jet stream blowing out to left. The two teams combined for 23 runs and 33 hits, including six home runs in the nightcap.
Freshman Kate Skokowski (0-2) suffered the loss in relief in game two. She was the third of four pitchers used in the contest.
Ingersoll finished game two 3-for-4 with three runs scored to up her batting average on the year to .526. Missy Schwartz and Stef Kerbacher each went 3-for-5.
In the opener, Edinboro jumped on top with seven runs in the first inning, and West Chester could not recover. The Fighting Scots tacked on four more in the third and two more in the fourth to shorten the tilt to five innings.
Brooke Muth (12-6) suffered the loss, lasting just one-third of an inning. Ingersoll knocked in three of West Chester’s four runs in the loss as the first five hitters in the lineup each picked up one hit.
West Chester hosts East Stroudsburg on Tuesday afternoon in a pivotal PSAC East softball showdown as the Golden Rams try to shore up the school’s first division title ever.
