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Box Score 2 On their second day in Florida, John Carroll softball earned their second split. The Blue Streaks dropped game one, before scoring five unanswered runs in the late night matchup.
JCU is now 2-2 on the young season, having beaten #11 Alma by a score of 3-2 and dropping an 8-0 decision to Saint Mary's on Sunday.
GAME ONE
John Carroll made a strong attempt at a late game rally, but fell short, losing 2-1 to St. John Fisher at Legends Way in Clermont, Fla.
Lindsey Thayer (1-0) struck out 13 JCU batters in the complete game victory.
AnnMarie Kirchner fell to 0-1, allowing just two runs on six hits.
St. John Fisher scored both runs in the fourth inning. Lauren Owens singled through the right side, scoring Katie Mazierski.
Mazierski went 2-for-4 on the night. Jennifer Knaak crossed the plate on a fielder's choice later in the inning.
In the bottom of the fourth, an
Alyssa Coleman single scored
Carly Simecek.
In the seventh,
Hannah Mizener singled and moved to second on a throwing error. Thayer shut it down after that, retiring three straight Blue Streaks.
GAME TWO
After a slow start, the bats warmed up, and John Carroll dominated the late innings in a 5-2 victory over Neumann University.
Jessica Cook (1-0) earned the complete game victory. Lauren Wilkie drops to 0-1.
Christie Wade was 1-for-3 with two RBI and two runs. Vic Eder also drove in two runs in the game on a 1-for-3 effort.
Lauren Cianciolo (1-for-3) added the final tally for JCU.
After the game was delayed by over 90 minutes, the Neumann lineup jumped out to a 2-0 lead. After Giordano reached on a bunt single, Grogan drilled a triple that scored the first run of the game. A groundout to second base on the next batter brought Grogan home.
In the second inning. JCU got on the board with an electrifying play. Angie Zappitelli drew a walk and soon found herself chased by
Christie Wade on the basepath. Wade's liner into left field took a hard hop to the fence beyond the fielder's glove. The senior found herself touching the plate with an inside-the-park home run, the first of her career. Cook settled down, allowing just three base runners after the first inning.
In the fifth, JCU plated a pair with a Vic Eder RBI double to right center and a groundout later in the inning. In the next inning, a rope off the bat of Coleman started things off. With the bases loaded, an Eder groundout brought home
Hannah Mizener and gave JCU their final 5-2 lead.
A 1-2-3 inning closed things out, and JCU earned their second win of 2016.
"It was a total team effort to come back after the loss and the early deficit," head coach
Nicole Loudin said. "We kept working and improving, and were able to break the game open."
The Blue Streaks are in action Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. against Cabrini and a 5:00 p.m. start against Augustana.
