Wilkes Softball Drops Two at Scranton
SCRANTON, Pa. – The Wilkes University softball team fell in both ends of a non-conference doubleheader at the University of Scranton on Wednesday afternoon, falling 5-1 in game one and 4-3 in the second contest.
The Colonels drop to 15-10 on the season.
The Royals jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings in game one. Wilkes scored its lone run in the top of the fifth when Haley Boyd (Escalon, CA/Escalon) doubled to left center, scoring Erin Cabry (York, PA/Central York) after she reached on a walk and moved to second on a Sydney Cogswell (Apalachin, NY/Vestal) sacrifice bunt.
Celine Podlesney (Hazle Twp., PA/Hazleton) fell to 6-4 on the season, allowing five runs (one earned) on nine hits with one walk and two strikeouts.
Boyd and Gracen Staunton (Kernersville, NC/Northwest Guilford) had the Colonels lone two hits in the first game.
Wilkes got on the board first in game two when Gab Giordano (Moscow, PA/Holy Cross) launched her fourth home run of the season to lead off the top of the first. Caitlin Brown (Glen Cove, NY/Glen Cove) added a second run in the inning when she doubled to right field bringing home Britny Jumalon (Torrance, CA/Torrance), who walked and moved to second on an infield hit by Podlesney.
Scranton tied the game in the bottom of the first on a two-run homer.
The Colonels retook the lead in the top of the second when Giordano laced a single to right-center bringing home Jordyn Kondras (Willow Street, PA/Lampeter-Strasburg) after she lead off the inning with a single and moved up on sacrifice bunt from Boyd.
The score held until the bottom of the seventh when the Royals got the first two runners on to start the inning and both runners came around on a walk-off two-run double.
Staunton went the distance in game two, allowing four runs on seven hits with one walk over six-plus innings.
Kondras led the offense in game two, finishing 3-for-3 with one run scored. Giordano went 2-for-4 with one run and two RBI's while Cabry was 2-for-3. Podlesney and Brown added one hit each.
Wilkes returns to the field on Saturday when they welcome No. 17 Manhattanville College to the Ralston Athletic Complex for a 1:00 p.m. MAC Freedom doubleheader.
