BENSALEM, Pa. – The Holy Family University softball team forced extra innings with a seventh inning score in game one, eventually falling to Southern New Hampshire 2-3 in nine innings of the opener of a doubleheader at Bensalem High School on Friday afternoon.
The Penmen would win the nightcap 2-9.
Individual Highlights
- Game one starter Kinsley Hall (Frankford, Del./Indian River (Mount Olive)) threw her fourth consecutive complete game, allowing just one earned run on seven hits over nine innings as she struck out six with no base on balls
- Rylee Hobel (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) reached base three times in the opener with a double, single, walk and stolen base
How it Happened
First Game
- Southern New Hampshire's first inning run looked like it would hold up, as HFU stranded two in the first, second, fifth and sixth
- Hobel's leadoff double in the seventh led to the Tigers forcing extras though, ash she came home following a Lily Hoban (Millsboro, Del./Indian River) sacrifice bunt and Alexis Letizia (Toms River, N.J./Donovan Catholic) single
- The Penmen took advantage of a two-out error to go ahead 1-2 in the eighth, but Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) answered with a clutch pinch-hit RBI single with two outs in the bottom-half
- Southern New Hampshire executed two sacrifices in the ninth for a 2-3 lead, and HFU would strand the international runner on third after a leadoff sacrifice
Second Game
- The Penmen led throughout after a two-out, two RBI single in the first
- HFU threatened with a Gina Olivieri (Philadelphia, Pa./Philadelphia Charter School) single and Jaden Kelly (West Deptford, N.J./West Deptford) single with two outs in the second to no avail, and SNHU came through with what turned out to be the game-winnings runs in a two-run third
- Letizia, Tidaback and Molly Moore (Conshohocken, Pa./Plymouth Whitemarsh) all had two-out singles, the latter two of which drove in runs, in a two-run sixth
Up Next
The Tigers begin Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) play on Tuesday, when it travels to Goldey-Beacom for a 1:30 p.m. doubleheader.