Softball Splits Saturday Doubleheader with Hofstra

Saturday, April 13

Drexel Softball Field

11 a.m.

Drexel University

25-14-1, 0

Hofstra

17-20, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Hofstra	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	7	11	6
Drexel	0	5	0	0	0	0	3	8	6	3

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Softball Splits Saturday Doubleheader with Hofstra

4/13/2019 3:31:00 PM | Softball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

PHILADELPHIA – The Drexel University softball team (25-15-1, 8-4 CAA) split a doubleheader with the Hofstra Pride (18-20, 5-7 CAA) on Saturday afternoon from the Drexel Softball Field in Philadelphia, Pa. The first game ended with a walk off for the Dragons, 8-7, before dropping the second game, 4-3. Hofstra won the series, 2-1.

GAME ONE – W, 8-7
Drexel jumped out to a 5-0 with a five-run second inning. Elena Woulfe notched a two-run double with the bases loaded. Linda Rush then recorded a three-run home run to clear the bases as Drexel went up 5-0.

Hofstra got one back in the third on an error. The Pride then added six more runs in the top of the fifth to take a 7-5 advantage. Though the Pride had four hits in the inning, the Dragons committed two errors in the frame. At one point, Hofstra hit three straight doubles to score runs.

Still trailing 7-5 heading into the seventh inning, the Dragons needed runs. Two walks and an error by the Hofstra shortstop loaded the bases for Taylor Lee. Lee singled to center to move everyone up a base, scoring Rush, 7-6. The game would end on the next play. Reilly Jo Swanson hit a chopper back to the Hofstra pitcher who came home in a bases loaded situation. But her throw was high and rolled to the backstop as two came home to score, giving Drexel the 8-7 win.

Devon Grippe pitched the first 4.2 innings before being relieved by Meghan Conroy, who picked up the win with 2.1 shutout innings.

Quick Hits
Linda Rush / 1-2, HR, BB, 3 RBI, 2 R
Elena Woulfe / 1-3, 2B, 2 RBI, R
Taylor Lee / 1-4, RBI
Sarah Clinton / 1-1, R, 3 BB

GAME TWO – L, 4-3
Hofstra won the rubber match, 4-3, to take the series, 2-1. Trailing 1-0, Rush tied the game in the bottom of the first with a home run to dead center, her second of the afternoon, 1-1.

Hofstra then went deep in the second inning, as Alexis Goeke notched a two-run shot, 3-1.

A sacrifice fly by Kristi DiMeo in the third got Drexel back within one, 3-2, before the Pride went back up by two in the top of the fourth, 4-2, after Drexel committed two errors.

Haley Hulitt entered the game in the bottom half of the inning as a pinch hitter and recorded an RBI on a groundout, 4-3.

The game was scoreless over the next three innings as Hofstra held on for the win.

Brooklyn Daly (L, 14-4) started the game, pitching the first 3.1 innings. Grippe closed out the effort with a strong no-hit outing over the final 3.2 innings.

Quick Hits
Linda Rush / 2-3, HR, RBI, R, BB
Reilly Jo Swanson / 2-3
Sarah Clinton / 1-3, BB
Taylor M. Lee / 0-1, 2 BB

NEXT UP
The Dragons play two midweek nonconference doubleheaders next week. Drexel travels to Delaware State on Tuesday, April 16 and Wagner on Thursday, April 18.