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Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. – Ally Schlee's one-hitter and a seven-run explosion with two outs in the seventh propelled the Lions past Wooster, 8-1, in the first of two games for the No. 14 TCNJ softball team on Tuesday morning.
Schlee gave up a hit to the first batter she faced and never allowed another one, ultimately getting rewarded with a comfortable win when TCNJ scored seven runs in its last at-bat.
The Lions (4-2) saw their three-game winning streak come to an end with a 6-3 loss to Arcadia in their second contest of the day.
TCNJ 8, Wooster 1
Julia Kinnally staked the Lions to a lead with an RBI single in the second inning, with
Lauren Conroy coming home from second after a leadoff double.
Julia Mayernik threw out her second would-be base-stealer of the year in the first, erasing a leadoff single. Schlee settled in nicely after a rocky start that saw each of the first three Fighting Scots reach base, including back-to-back walks after the leadoff runner was thrown out stealing. The right-hander averted the threat and retired seven in a row until a two-out walk in the third.
The Fighting Scots tied it in the bottom of the fourth when the leadoff hitter advanced all the way to third on an outfield error. Two batters later, a passed ball allowed her to scamper home with Wooster's first run.
Kinnally nearly gave the Lions the lead for the second time in the sixth, sending a double into the gap in left-center.
Victoria Aspiazu, who drew a two-out walk, tried to score on the play but was thrown out at the plate as Wooster executed a successful relay.
TCNJ went ahead to stay with a huge two-out rally in the seventh, putting eight consecutive hitters on base after Wooster had retired the first two in the inning.
Lindsay Zengel singled, stole second, and scored easily on
Kaci Neveling's go-ahead double to left.
Jaclyn Carifi followed with a triple, the second of her career, to make it 3-1, and Mayernik brought her home with an RBI single to left. Conroy extended the lead with a triple down the right-field line and scored on a wild pitch before Kinnally recorded her third hit of the morning and
Kayla Hillenbrand made it 8-1 with a two-run double to right-center.
Schlee continued to coast in the circle, setting down 11 in a row after the passed ball in the fourth and getting the final out on her 99
th pitch. She walked three and struck out one and did allow a hit after the Fighting Scots' first batter of the game.
Kinnally finished 3-for-4 and Conroy added a pair of extra-base knocks, joining Hillenbrand (2-for-4, 2 RBI) as Lions to record multiple hits. Before the seven-run, seven-hit outburst in the seventh, TCNJ had only notched two hits since the second inning. Aspiazu drew three walks.
Arcadia 6, TCNJ 3
Arcadia jumped out to a quick lead on Megan Sooy's 2-run homer in the top of the first.
The Lions dented the scoreboard in the fourth, as Conroy walked and went first-to-third on a base hit by Aspiazu before scoring on a passed ball.
Gillian Roberts got on a roll after Sooy's home run, retiring 10 Knights in a row until a base hit in the fourth. She ran into trouble in the fifth, when Nathalia Diiani chased her with a two-run double that made it 4-1.
TCNJ struck right back in the bottom half. Neveling singled and took second on a wild pitch, and the Lions had runners on second and third with no outs after Carifi walked and each moved up a bag on a successful steal. Mayernik brought Neveling home and advanced Carifi to third on a sacrifice fly to cut the margin to 4-2.
Arcadia, however, tacked on two more in the seventh on an RBI triple by Diiani (3-for-4, 3 RBI) and an RBI single from Sooy (2-for-4, 3 RBI), who did all the damage at the plate for the Knights. Mayernik's second sacrifice fly of the game capped the scoring in the bottom half.
Neveling stole three bases and scored two runs and Carifi added two swipes for TCNJ, which was held to four hits by Julianna Presto. The Arcadia starter managed to work around six walks and a half-dozen steals to earn the victory.
Roberts worked 4.1 innings and was charged with four runs on seven hits. She struck out two and did not walk a batter.
Julia Roessler allowed two runs on four hits in 2.2 frames, striking out four with one walk.