April 21, 2010
Box Score
LEWISBURG, PA - The La Salle softball team dropped the first game of a doubleheader at Bucknell 3-2 before the two teams ended in a scoreless tie when the nightcap was called in the sixth inning for lightning. The Explorers move to 13-22-1 while the Bison are now 21-12-1.
Gina Massaro led at the plate with a 2-for-2 outing in the first game. She was intentionally walked twice as well. Mary Pat Conville went 1-for-3 with a double in the first game and Liz Reed added an RBI double in game one.
The two squads played fast scoreless ball through the first three and a half innings, as both teams scattered three baserunners apiece. Bucknell opened the game in the fourth as the first run came home on a sacrifice fly and two more were batted in on one-run singles.
The Explorers got one back in the next frame as Laura Gallagher registered a one-out single and scored two batters later when Massaro doubled to right center.
The second run was added in the top of the seventh. DJ Guinn hit a one-out single as a pinch hitter, and Gallagher re-entered to run. Reed followed up with a two-base shot to left center to score Gallagher.
Laura Beth McCreesh went the distance in the pitcher's circle, giving up three runs on six hits, striking out two and walking three. Bridget Gates also went the distance for the Bison, giving up two runs on nine hits, striking out one and walking two.
Game two proved a pitcher's duel as neither team got on the board before lightning was spotted in the area and it was decided that the game would end. None of the four Bison baserunners made it past second as Massaro scattered four hits. The Explorers were limited to three baserunners as Massaro and Breanna DiTommaso reached on walks and Erica Vile reached on an error.
Massaro struck out five in five innings of work, walked none and scattered just four hits. Bucknell's Alex MacLean went the distance as well, giving up no runs on no hits, striking out six and walking two.
The Explorers return to conference play as they head to Charlotte on Saturday for a noon doubleheader.
