Softball Concludes Regular Season with Sweep of Frostburg State
Behrend
softball picked up a pair of key victories over Frostburg State to conclude
the regular season on Saturday, April 28. With the wins, Behrend locks up
a number three seed in the conference tournament, and finishes the regular
season with an overall mark of 23-12, with a 13-5 conference record.
Frostburg State falls to 14-18 overall and 11-7 in conference play.
In game one, the Behrend bats came alive in the second inning as the women
put seven runs on the board and batted through the order. The inning
started off with a Kristen Macha (Export/Franklin Regional) single, followed
by a series of walks and wild pitches by Frostburg pitcher Lindsay Durkin
that loaded the bases and brought in two Behrend runs. Allison Babish
(Coraopolis/Montour) then cleared the bases with a triple to the wall,
putting the blue and white up 5-0. After a Nikki Kaschauer (South
Park/South Park) single that scored another run, Macha would get her second
hit of the inning with an RBI double. Whitby would drive in two more the
next inning with a stand-up double as Behrend ran away with a 10-0 blowout
victory.
Julie Koman (McKees Rocks/Montour) had a phenomenal outing, ringing up eight
of the 17 Frostburg batters she faced en route to another complete game
victory, including a dominant showing in the second inning in which she
struck out the side. Koman had a no-hitter going into the last batter she
faced, but ended the game giving up two Frostburg hits in her shutout win.
In game two Frostburg would get on the board first going up 1-0 with a run
in the top of the second. The blue and white would come right back in the
bottom of the second to knot it at 1-1 as Rachelle Lawrence (Warren
Center/Northeast Bradford) tripled and then scored on single by Lindsey
Baughman (Warren/Warren).
Behrend would go up 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning when Babish and
Kaschauer reached base and were driven home with a double to the right
center gap by Macha. That lead would hold up as Laura Frischkorn (Beaver
Falls/Beaver Falls) came on in relief of Sandra Jaussi (Bethel Park/Bethel
Park) and got the save by striking out Frostburg State’s final batter.
Behrend now awaits tomorrow’s AMCC regular season contests to see which
opposing team will capture the #6 seed. On Wednesday, May 2, Behrend
softball will host a first-round #3 (Behrend) vs. #6 (TBA) AMCC Tournament
matchup.