ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Thursday, April 5, 2001

ETOWN SWEEPS LYCOMING, 2-1 AND 5-4

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown improved to 7-9 overall with a sweep of non-conference opponent Lycoming Thursday. Elizabethtown won the first game, 2-1, and captured the second, 5-4, in eight innings.

Pam Pike (Pennsburg, PA/Upper Perkiomen) started and got the win for the Blue Jays in the first game. She pitched into the seventh inning and allowed only five hits and one unearned run while striking out four. Vicki Andrel (Upper Darby, PA/Upper Darby) mopped up the seventh inning to get her second consecutive save in as many games.

Lycoming took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning of the first game, but Elizabethtown responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second. Three consecutive singles by Melissa Reinhart (Bernville, PA/Hamburg), Kristy Nowell (Wilmington, DE/St. Elizabeth), and Erin Malone (Orwigsburg, PA/Blue Mountain) loaded the bases with no one out. Following a fielder's choice and a strikeout, Michelle Casserly (Sussex, NJ/High Point) doubled home Nowell and Malone for the only runs the Blue Jays would need for the win.

The second game began with Lycoming taking a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Etown made the score 2-1 in the bottom of the fifth when Jess Robinson (McSherrystown, PA/Delone Catholic) singled, stole second, advanced to third on a sacrifice and went home on a passed ball.

Lycoming responded in the top of the sixth by scoring two more runs to take a 4-1 lead, but Elizabethtown struck right back by scoring three in the bottom of the sixth. Nowell walked to lead off, Emily Marcheski (Bel Air, MD/C. Milton Wright) followed with a single, and Laurie Morris (Brielle, NJ/Manasquan) followed with a two-RBI single. Kristi Kulesa (Stanhope, NJ/Lenape Valley) singled immediately afterward, and after a fielder's choice, stole third. This set up a sacrifice fly by Robinson to drive in Kulesa and tie the game.

Michelle Morris (Conyngham, PA/Hazleton) took over pitching duties for Etown in the top of the seventh and retired the top of Lycoming's lineup in order. Etown loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh with no one out but could not score anyone, and the game went into extra innings.

Michelle Morris retired the heart of Lycoming's batting order in a row in the eighth inning and struck out the final batter. Kulesa singled to lead off the bottom of the eighth for Etown, and was driven home on a single by Emily Morris (Canton, PA/Canton).

Elizabethtown returns to action as host of Albright for a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader Saturday, April 7 at 1:00 p.m.

At Elizabethtown, PA
Game One
Elizabethtown 2, Lycoming 1

                                    R H E
Lycoming (2-7)      0 1 0 0 0 0 0 — 1 5 1
Elizabethtown (6-9) 0 2 0 0 0 0 x — 2 9 2

Demsher and Shaffer; Pike, Andrel (7) and Reinhart. WP: Pike. LP: Demsher. SV: Andrel. SO-BB: Shaffer 4-0, Pike 4-2, Andrel 0-0. 2B: Casserly (E), Marcheski (E).

Game Two
Elizabethtown 5, Lycoming 4 (eight innings)

                                      R H  E
Lycoming (2-7)      0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 — 4 10 1
Elizabethtown (7-9) 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 — 5 11 2

Rooney, Hampton (8) and Newcomer; Andrel, Moyer (3), M. Morris (7) and Reinhart. WP: M. Morris. LP: Hampton. SO-BB: Rooney 4-3, Hampton 0-2, Andrel 0-0, Moyer 2-0, M. Morris 1-0. HR: Feerrar (L). SB: Feerrar (L), Robinson (E), Davenport (E) Kulesa (E) 2, Casserly (E).