YORK, PA – The York College softball squad split a non-traditional doubleheader on Thursday in York. The teams played the final three innings of a suspended game from April 9 and then played a second game at Spartan Stadium.
The Spartans won the suspended game 6-2 and the Bullets captured the season series with a 6-3 win in the nightcap.
The Spartans are now 21-15 overall heading into the final weekend of the regular season. The Bullets improve to 23-11 for the campaign.
 
Game One
Runs: York 6 – Gettysburg 2
Hits: York 7; Gettysburg 3
Errors: York 2; Gettysburg 0
LOB: York 6; Gettysburg 7
WP: Kyrsten Coppage (12-4); LP: Megan Hughes (5-4)
 
How It Happened
• The Bullets opened the scoring in the top of the first as Bailey Quinn walked to open the game. She moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on a ground out. Quinn came around to score on an error by the Spartans for the 1-0 lead.
• York got all they needed in the bottom of the second as Daphney Adams began the inning with a walk. Emma Wade also drew a walk to put Spartans at first and second. Alexis McDonaugh ripped a single to right center, scoring Adams to tie the game at one. Bri McKeown singled to load the bases with no outs. Kylee Paules singled to right, scoring Wade for the 2-1 lead. After a strikeout, Morgan Sauers delivered a two-run double to right to put the Spartans up 4-1. Rylee Dreyer delivered York's fifth run of the inning with a sacrifice fly. Gretchen Barstad closed out the scoring with an RBI single to center.
• Upon the restart of the game, the Bullets got a single run off Kyrsten Coppage in the top of the fifth. Elliana Hopple began the fifth with a double to right field for the Bullets' first hit of the game. Hopple advanced on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a Zoe Brennan RBI ground out to second.
• The Bullets loaded the bases in the top of the sixth thanks to a walk and a pair of hit batters. However, Coppage got a pop up, a great play by Sauers at short followed by a strikeout to get out of the jam. Coppage allowed a harmless single in the top of the seventh to close out the win, 16 days in the making.
 
Spartan Offensive Leaders
Morgan Sauers: 1-for-3, run, 2 RBI, BB, 2B
Gretchen Barstad: 1-for-4, RBI
Emma Wade: 1-for-1, run, 2 BB
Alexis McDonaugh: 1-for-2, run, RBI, BB
Kylee Paules: 1-for-3, run, RBI
 
Spartan Pitching
Kyrsten Coppage: 7.0 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, 1 ER, 4 K, 5 BB, WP, 2 HB (Win,12-4)
Game Two
Runs: York 3 – Gettysburg 6
Hits: York 5; Gettysburg 9
Errors: York 1; Gettysburg 0
LOB: York 3; Gettysburg 11
WP: Isabella Santiago (4-1); LP: Natalie Rietema (9-8)
 
How It Happened
• The Spartans opened the scoring with a first inning tally. Rylee Dreyer was hit by a pitch with one out. Gretchen Barstad blasted double down the left field line to move Dreyer to third. Daphney Adams plated Dreyer with a sacrifice fly to center.
• After a quiet second inning, the Bullets put together a four-run inning in the top of the third. Bailey Quinn walked to lead off the inning. After a ground out moved Quinn to second, Elliana Hopple was hit by a pitch. Another walk loaded the bases for the Bullets. Gabby Wood then drew a walk to score Gettysburg's first run. Emily Bakker stroked a double to deep right center to score a pair. Fortunately for York, a great relay cut down Wood at the plate for the second out of the inning. Jordan Pansy singled home Bakker for the 4-1 lead.
• York got two runs back in the bottom of the fourth as Gretchen Barstad ripped a sharp single to center. After a flyout to center, Emma Wade blasted a two-run shot to left center, cutting the Spartan deficit to 4-3.
• The Bullets responded in the top of the fifth with a run on three hits to take a 5-3 lead. It could have been worse as Gettysburg left the bases loaded. The Bullets added another single run in the top of the sixth with a pair of hits and a walk for the 6-3 lead.
• Barstad and Wade each singled in the sixth but Gettysburg starter Isabella Santiago would leave them stranded to maintain the three-run lead. The Spartans went in order in the seventh as Santiago did a great job against the Spartan lineup. Santiago scattered five hits as she struck out five and did not walk a batter as she improves to 4-1.
 
Spartan Offensive Leaders
Gretchen Barstad: 3-for-3, run, 2B
Emma Wade: 2-for-3, run, 2 RBI, HR (11)
Daphney Adams: 0-for-2, RBI, SF
 
Spartan Pitching
Natalie Rietema: 2.2 IP, 2 hits, 4 runs, 4 ER, 2 K, 5 BB, HB (Loss, 9-8)
Gretchen Barstad: 4.1 IP, 7 hits, 2 runs, 2 ER, 3 K, 1 BB
 
Spartan Notes
York is now 14-24 all-time against the Bullets as Gettysburg took two of three games this season … the Spartans have split their last three doubleheaders … York is 9-8 at home … York is now 13-4 when scoring in the first inning as they have lost two straight in that situation … York is 6-1 when scoring between six and nine runs … York is 1-13 when being out-hit by their opponent and 18-2 when having more hits than their opponents … York walked 11 more hitters in the two games as they have now issued 165 walks in 225 innings of work covering 36 games … in addition to the walks, the Spartans have also hit 34 batters … the Spartan staff WHIP is now 1.79 per inning … Gretchen Barstad picked up her 18^th multi-hit game and fifth three-hit game in the nightcap … Emma Wade recorded her 15^th multi-hit game of the year in the nightcap … Morgan Sauers notched her seventh multi-RBI game of the year in the opener while Wade had her 16^th multi-RBI game of the year in the nightcap … Barstad and Wade each have current five game win streaks … Wade has reached base safely in each of the last six games while Barstad has a five game streak … Barstad has reached base in 33 of the Spartans 36 games this year … Wade now has 63 RBIs as she continues to increase the single-season school record while Barstad is one run away from tying Joy Byers for the school record of 48 set back in 2001 … Wade was ranked second in the country in RBI per game coming into Thursday's games while Barstad is 17^th in the nation in runs and 26^th in batting average.
 
Up Next
 The Spartans conclude their 2024 home slate on Saturday as they host Alvernia University in the final MAC Commonwealth doubleheader of the regular season. The Spartans and Golden Wolves kick off the day with a game one pitch time of 1:00 pm.