SALISBURY, Md. - The Frostburg State softball team closed out its weekend at the Salisbury Tournament with a pair of losses to Rowan and No. 21 Salisbury, Sunday. The Bobcats dropped their morning matchup with RU 4-1 and lost to the Sea Gulls for the second-straight day 8-0.
FSU (1-3) registered just four hits in the loss to the Profs. Bobcat sophomore
Lauren Scrivener (Baltimore, Md./Eastern Tech) was 1-for-3 with an RBI single in the fifth inning, driving home sophomore
Jenna Delaney (Frostburg, Md./Mountain Ridge). Seniors
Samantha Quirin (Lovettsville, Va./Loudoun Valley) and
Lindsay Freitag (Baltimore, Md./Parkville) along with junior
Brooke Tapman (Pocomoke, Md./Pocomoke) each had a hit for the Bobcats.
Rowan plated one run in the first inning and held on to that slim 1-0 lead until the top of the fourth when it scored one run again for a 2-0 edge. RU tacked on single runs in the fifth and sixth innings as well. Ashley Landi and Ashley Minch each had two hits, two RBIs and a run scored for the Profs.
Minch earned the win on the mound, tossing 5.0 innings and allowing one earned run with six strikeouts. Frostburg starter
Megan Henne (Pasadena, Md./Northeast) dropped her second game of the season after giving up four runs and six hits in 7.0 innings of work.
Game two did not get any better for FSU as it ran into Salisbury and lost 8-0 for for the second-consecutive day. Freitag had the only hit for the Bobcats, a single through the left side in the first inning.
The Sea Gulls scored two runs in the third and added four more in the fourth for a 6-0 edge. Salisbury scored one in the fifth and sixth for the 8-0 win.
Ali Ritter finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs, a run scored and homerun while Michelle Gravhadl (2-for-4) drove in two more runs. Kelly Leary picked up her fourth win of the season after throwing 4.1 innings and allowing just that one first inning hit. Sophomore
Megan Magee (Egg Harbor City, N.J./Holy Spirit) suffered her first loss of the 2010 season allowing all eight runs in 5.1 innings of work.
FSU returns to action on Sunday, March 14 when it faces Keene State at 1:30 pm at the NTC Spring Games in Clermont, Fla.