BENSALEM, Pa. – Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) earned a complete game win for her second start in a row, leading the HFU softball team to a 3-1 game one victory over Jefferson on Wednesday afternoon at Bensalem High School.  
 
The Tigers then brought the tying run to the plate in the nightcap before the Rams held on, 2-4, to salvage the split. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Tidaback improved to 3-3 on the year after scattering eight hits and with two strikeouts and one base on balls
• Maria Leedom (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy (Shippensburg)) reached base twice in the opener, highlighted by hitting her first home run of the season, before adding another base knock in game two
• Madison Grubb (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway) and Sam Ciasullo (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) also had hits in both games, with each recording a run and a double
  • Grubb added a walk and hit-by-pitch, while Ciasullo doubled and had an RBI
• Makenna Patterson (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) allowed just one run in three innings of relief in the nightcap

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family had four extra-base hits in the doubleheader, compared to Jefferson's one

 
How it Happened 
Game One

• Doubles by Grubb (leadoff) and Lauren Hagy (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) (two outs) got HFU on the board in the first
• Tidaback limited Jefferson to just three singles without a runner reaching scoring position in the first four frames, and Rylee Hobel's (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) leadoff bunt single led to a 2-0 lead in the third after she stole second and was driven by Ciasullo's two-out single
• The Rams first threatened when they loaded the bases with one out in the fifth, only to be kept off the board when Leedom, playing right field, completed a double play by throwing out a runner at the plate on a flyout
• She then came right into the dugout and led off the fifth with the homer for a 3-0 edge
• Jefferson finally got on the board after loading the bases once more in the sixth, this time with none away, but a double play started by shortstop Kylee Jones (Hulmeville, Pa./Neshaminy (Rider)) and an inning-ending flyout meant the Rams only scored once
• Tidaback then worked around a leadoff single in the seventh by retiring three straight to finish off her complete game 

Game Two

• Jefferson plated one in the first and led throughout, despite HFU advancing two into scoring position in the bottom-half
• A two-RBI single with two outs in the third turned out to be the game-winner, and the Rams would add unneeded insurance in the fifth
• Holy Family's bats finally awoke in the sixth as Ciasullo led off with a double
  • Emma Clayborne's (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) one-out single advanced her to third, before a double steal with pinch-runner Jasmine Chui (Jamison, Pa./Central Bucks South) got the Tigers on the board
• An error began the seventh, which allowed HFU to cut the deficit in half following a Grubb single and Jones sacrifice fly, but Jefferson was able to get the final out with the tying run at the plate

 
Up Next
The Tigers travel north to face Bridgeport in a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.