SALISBURY, MD – In a battle of Capital Athletic Conference
Softball Tournament unbeatens on Saturday morning, the tenth ranked
Salisbury University Sea Gulls downed the York College Spartans 5-0
in the third round of the tournament. The Sea Gulls now advance to
Sunday's championship series while the Spartans must play Stevenson
in an elimination game later on Saturday afternoon.
After the Spartans got two runners on with one out in the first
and failed to score, the Sea Gulls struck for a single run in the
bottom of the first courtesy of an Ali Ritter RBI single.
The Spartans again threatened in the fourth only to be kept off
the board as they left two more runners stranded. Salisbury pushed
the lead to 2-0 in the bottom of the frame with the help of a pair
of Spartan errors.
Salisbury blew the game open in the fifth as they posted three
runs to take a 5-0 lead. Ritter picking up a two-run double and a
Michelle Gravhadl banging out an RBI single. The five run lead
would prove to be too much for the Spartans to overcome.
Kelly Leary picked up the shutout win as she scattered three
hits in her seven innings. She struck out eight and walked one as
she improves to 15-0.
Brittany
Therres (Hughesville, Md./Thomas Stone) absorbed the
loss as she allowed three runs, two earned, on four hits with three
strikeouts and two walks in four-plus innings of work. Corrine
Majczan (Center Valley, Pa./Southern Lehigh) came out
of the pen and allowed two runs on two hits with a strikeout and a
walk.
Ali Ritter was 2-for-3 with three RBI while Gravhadl was
1-for2-1 with an RBI. Casey Zaino had the Sea Gulls final RBI for
the day.
All three of York's hits were singles as Hannah Hugel
(Paoli, Pa./Conestoga), Michelle Barwick
(Cockeysville, Md./Dulaney), and Sarah Harris
(Collegeville, Pa./Methacton) each had a hit for York.
The Spartans now square off against Stevenson in an elimination
game on Saturday at 4:00 pm. The winner of that contest will play
Salisbury on Sunday having to sweep the Sea Gulls in two games to
prevent the hosts from winning the CAC title and the NCAA
Tournament automatic bid.
