BENSALEM, Pa. – After dropping game one 3-7, the HFU softball team scored three first inning runs in the nightcap and led the entire way in a 6-3 win that salvaged a split with Felician at Bensalem High School on Wednesday.  
 
Individual Highlights

• Rylee Hobel (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) reached base four times in six trips to the plate, finishing with two hits in the opener before hitting her first career home run and adding a walk in game two
• Sam Ciasullo (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) earned her first career save in the nightcap, coming in to throw 2.1 scoreless innings of relief in which she surrendered just two hits
  • Makenna Patterson (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) earned the win, going the first 4.2 frames 
• Emma Clayborne (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon), Lauren Hagy (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) and Carlie Miller (Hermitage, Pa./Hickory) all had two base knocks and an RBI in game two, with Clayborne and Miller also scoring and Hagy doubling twice
  • Hagy also tripled in game one
• Madison Grubb (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway) had her second three-hit performance of the season in the game one, while Angelina Bresnen (Morrisville, Pa./Conwell Egan) and Alexis Letizia (Toms River, N.J./Donovan Catholic) joining Hobel in recording two hits
• Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) gave up just two earned runs on three hits in 5.2 innings of relief in game one

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family outhit the Golden Falcons 20-18 over the course of the doubleheader, including 11-9 in game one before breaking out for a season-high five doubles in the nightcap

 
How it Happened 
Game Two

• Four of the first five Tigers to come to the plate in the nightcap reached base, beginning with Kylee Jones' (Hulmeville, Pa./Neshaminy (Rider)) walk and ending with doubles by Gurbb, Clayborne and Hagy, the last two of which drove in the three runs
• Holy Family would have an answer to both of Felician's scoring frames, first countering one in the second with Hobel's homer
• After Patterson worked a scoreless third and fourth, the Tigers made if 5-1 by way of a Grubb sacrifice fly, which plated Miller after she had led off the fourth with a single 
• The Golden Falcons pulled back within two with a two-run fifth, but Ciasullo came on to get the final out of the frame before HFU took advantage of an error to close out the scoring on a Miller two-out single in the bottom-half
• Ciasullo worked a 1-2-3 sixth before stranding the bases loaded in the seventh to secure the victory

Game One

• HFU responded to Felician's two-run first with a run of its own in the bottom-half, thanks to a Jones' leadoff walk and singles by Grubb and Ciasullo, but the Tigers could never come back to tie it
• Holy Family also made it a one-run deficit after answering the Golden Falcons' two-run second with two runs in the third, as Bresnen led off with a single before back-to-back RBI hits by Hagy (triple) and Letizia (single)
  • HFU had previously missed out on an opportunity cut into the deficit when a Tiger was thrown out at the plate to end the second
• Again Felician had an immediate response, taking advantage of a leadoff walk to eventually plate two in the fourth, and the Golden Falcons would close out the scoring in the seventh

 
Up Next
With Saturday's doublehader at Dominican postponed, HFU next takes the field for a doublheader at Post on Sunday.