Carlisle, Pa. - The Frostburg State softball team used timely hitting with runners on base to plate 16 runs on 20 hits in a pair of non-conference wins at Dickinson on Thursday night. The Bobcats prevailed 7-6 and 9-3.
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
Frostburg (14-12) scored six runs in the second and third innings of the first game, with junior Shari Beavers driving in four of them. In the second, she doubled home freshman Amanda Hennessee and later scored on an error. In the third and a run already in, Beavers doubled the lead to 6-0 with a three-run home run to score Hennessee and sophomore Caitlin Lovend.
Trailing by six, Dickinson scratched one across in the home half of the third and climbed back into the game with four in the sixth to pull to 6-5. Lovend gave the Bobcats some needed insurance with a solo homer to lead off the seventh. That run came in handy as the Red Devils scored one in the bottom of the seventh and stranded the would-be tying run at third to clinch the 7-6 win for Frostburg.
Senior Lauren Scrivener picked up the victory, going the full seven innings and inducing 15 groundouts.
Game two would have little drama as the Bobcats quickly erased a 1-0 Dickinson advantage with a seven-run fourth inning on the strength of two bases-loaded, bases-clearing doubles. Lovend, Hennessee, and Beavers all came around on catcher Megan Butzner's double. Butzner later scored on an error. Junior Kerri O'Malley repeated the feat as her double plated seniors Jordan Wright and Jenna Delaney and junior center fielder Taylor Vandegrift to make it 7-1.
Lovend and Beavers each homered for the second time of the doubleheader in the later innings to cap the scoring. Lovend went 3-for-4 in the second game while Butzner and Beavers each had three hits in the two games Wright picked up her ninth win of the season in the nightcap.
Vandegrift had hits in both games to extend her hitting streak to seven games. She also has at least one hit in 12 of her past 13 games and is hitting .500 (24-for-48) in that span.
The Bobcats return home for a Capital Athletic Conference doubleheader and their Strikeout Cancer games Saturday against Stevenson at 2:00 p.m.
