PHILADELPHIA – Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) stranded the bases loaded with a game-ending strikeout to secure a 6-5 win over College of Staten Island on Thursday afternoon at Bensalem High School in the HFU's softball team's home-opener.
 
The Dolphins had taken game one 6-10. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Tidaback earned her first collegiate win with her first career complete game, scattering eight hits with seven strikeouts over seven innings 
• Madison Grubb (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway) led the offense with two multi-hit performances to finish the day 4-for-7 with two doubles, four RBI, three runs, two stolen bases and a base on balls
• Angelina Bresnen (Morrisville, Pa./Conwell Egan) reached base in all four at-bats in game one, going 2-for-2 with two walks, while fellow freshman Gina Olivieri (Philadelphia, Pa./Philadelphia Charter School) reached base in all three at-bats in the nightcap after going 2-for-2 with a walk
• Kylee Jones (Hulmeville, Pa./Neshaminy (Rider)) reached base multiple times in both contests, finishing the day 2-for-6 with a triple, four runs, two walks and a stolen base

 
How it Happened 
Game Two

• Holy Family scored two runs in each of its first two at-bats once again, beginning with a Jones walk and Grubb RBI single
  • Tidaback kept the frame alive with a two-out single, advancing Grubb to third which allowed her to come in on a wild pitch during the next at-bat
• Oliveri led off the second with a single and after a one-out walk by Dana Moser (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan (Stockton)), Grubb came through with a two-out double for the 4-0 cushion 
• The Tigers then cancelled out CSI's third inning run with one of their own in the bottom-half thanks to an error, which proved costly on Oliveri's two-out RBI double
• Tidaback worked a scoreless fourth, and HFU scored what turned out to be the game-winning run via a double steal executed by Grubb and Jones, who had singled with one out 
• Tidaback worked a scoreless fifth before running into trouble in a three-run sixth
• Staten Island then cut the deficit to one on a one-out sacrifice fly in seventh, but after loading the bases with two outs Tidabeck was able to come through with the game-ending punch-out

Game One

• Both teams had big innings early, with HFU answered CSI's five-run first with a two-run bottom-half after Jones led off with a triple and Grubb followed with a double
• The Tigers then added two more in the second thanks to back-to-back walks by Jones and Grubb and back-to-back singles by Emma Clayborne (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) and Bresnen to cut the deficit to 4-5
• Holy Family could never tie the score though, despite a scoreless third, as the Dolphins strung together three consecutive two-out hits in the fourth to extend the cushion to 4-7
• Staten Island added a run in the fifth and two in the sixth, before the Tigers brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh
  • It all began with an error and after a walk by Bresnen, Maria Leedom (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy (Shippensburg)) made it 5-10 with an RBI single
  • Back-to-back outs were recorded, but a Gabrielle Wiley (Willow Grove, Pa./Upper Moreland) single made a four-run deficit
  • Lauren Hagy (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) walked to load the bases, but the Dolphins were finally about to get the final out

 
Up Next
Holy Family returns to the road on Sunday, traveling to West Chester for a 12 p.m. doubleheader.