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Box Score 2 BLOOMSBURG, Pa.- West Chester (20-11, 8-2) returned to action on Monday afternoon on the road at Bloomsburg (8-18, 3-5) and rolled to a 2-0 shutout win in game one before using a seventh-inning comeback to pick up a 6-5 victory in the nightcap and a sweep of the host Huskies.
Game One: WCU 2 Bloomsburg 0
Hailey Melvin (Tabernacle, N.J./Seneca) drove in the first run of the game in the top of the third with a sac fly to left, which scored
Katelyn Rittenbaugh (Donaldson, Pa./Pine Grove) who had advanced to third courtesy of a
Grace Aguilar (Frederica, Del./Lake Forest) earlier in the inning.
Bloomsburg appeared as if it may answer back with a run of its own in the home half of the third but
Danielle Ciliberto (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) and West Chester worked around an early base runner to keep the Huskies scoreless heading into the fourth.
Meg Wolfe (Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove) extended the lead in the fourth with a solo home run, which pushed the lead to 2-0 in favor of the Golden Rams.
Ciliberto got the start in the circle for West Chester and went the distance for her second shutout in the last two weeks, scattering just four hits while walking two and striking out three to improve to 7-2 on the year.
Game Two: WCU 6 Bloomsburg 5
Bloomsburg jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning.
This lead held up until the third when Wolfe continued her big day with a two-RBI triple to right, scoring Melvin and Aguilar to erase the deficit and give the Golden Rams a 2-1 lead.
Bloomsburg answered back with a run of its own in the fourth to tie the score at 2-2 heading into the fifth. The Huskies scored another run in the home half of the sixth via a bunt single to take a 3-2 lead. Bloomsburg added another run with an RBI double in the home half of the sixth, to claim a 4-2 lead before adding another on an RBI single to carry a 5-2 lead into the seventh.
In the top of the seventh,
Emma Zoldi (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) tied the game up with a bases-clearing three RBI triple before scoring moments later on a wild pitch to give West Chester a 6-5 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh.
Antonia Browning (Newark, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) tossed the first 3.1 surrendering two run on five hits while striking out three before being lifted in favor of
Samantha Klug (East Norriton, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy). Klug finished the game in the circle, working the final 3.2 innings in relief of Browning and scattering just three runs on nine hits, while striking out five to improve to 6-2 on the year.
Up Next:
West Chester returns to action tomorrow against Shippensburg beginning at 1 p.m.
