Drexel University Athletics
Drexel University
Delaware
Dragons Drop Two Against CAA Rival Delaware
4/5/2008 2:25:23 PM | Softball
Philadelphia – Drexel (18-11, 5-3) dropped a pair of games to CAA rival Delaware (16-13, 3-5) on Saturday. The Dragons saw the Blue Hens come from behind for a 5-4 win in the opener after Drexel held a 4-2 lead early in the game. In the nightcap Delaware ended the game early, scoring three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to invoke the eight-run rule. Sandi Wambold hit her fifth homer of the year for the Dragons in game one. The teams are back in action for the series finale at noon tomorrow.
Game One
Drexel saw a 4-2 lead vanish in a three-run fifth inning by Delaware as the Blue Hens held on for a 5-4 comeback victory in game one of the teams' three-game weekend set. Trailing by a single run in the seventh inning, the Dragons got the lead-off runner on base when Gaudier got hit by a pitch. The Dragons moved pinch runner Rachel Campbell to third base on a sacrifice bunt and a ground out. But with two outs Molly Dacey was called out on strikes to end the game, with the Dragons falling for just the second time in CAA play this year.
Wambold gave the Dragons a 2-0 lead in the second inning with her fifth home run of the season, a two-run shot to left field. Gaudier worked her way into and out of jams through the first four innings, allowing one run on a bases-loaded ground out in the third inning and another on an RBI double in the fourth. The Dragons took advantage of a throwing error to plate two more runs in the top of the fourth.
Delaware broke through against Drexel's pitching in the fifth inning when Katie Lee led off with a double against starter Katrina Gaudier. She promptly stole third base and catcher Quinn Megargel took second after walking. Junior Amanda Shattuck relieved Gaudier with runners on second and third and no outs. Lee came in to score on a throwing error by catcher Ashley Botelho. Alison Borchers followed with an RBI single to plate Megargel with the tying run. Shattuck gave way to Breanna Gomez with no outs in the inning. She retired her first batter on a bunt before walking one and inducing a fly ball that brought Borchers in from third base on the sacrifice fly for what would prove to be the decisive run. Gomez fanned the next batter to end the inning with Delaware on top 5-4.
Shattuck incurred the loss, dropping to 1-1 on the season. Anne Marie Pagano got the win for Delaware after allowing three runs in five innings. Samantha Shawn pitched two scoreless innings for her second save of the year.
Game Two
The Delaware bats knocked out 17 hits against Drexel's pitching, putting up three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to close out a run-rule shortened 8-0 game. The Dragons put runners on base in each of the first four innings but failed to push a run across the plate, stranding seven on the base paths in just their third conference loss of the season.
Breanna Gomez started the game and incurred her sixth loss of the season after allowing two runs on five hits in one and two-thirds innings pitched. Relieversr Ellen Boundy and Amanda Shattuck gave up three runs apiece. Boundy struck out a game-high four batters.
Six different Blue Hens had multiple hits and drove in runs in their win. Samantha Shawn, who got the save for Delaware in game one, earned the complete-game victory.
