Erie, Pa – The Mercyhurst University Softball team swept the visiting D'Youville Saints in a doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon in what were the first two games to be played on the teams new field. The Laker won the first game by an 8-1 score and followed that performance with a 9-1 mercy-rule win.
In the opener it was the Saints who struck first in the top of the first inning, but after the score it was all Mercyhurst who followed by pouring on three runs in the bottom of the first highlighted by a Marisa Cartellone double which drove in Allison Dejidas.
In the second the Lakers tacked on their fourth and fifth runs of the contest off a
Chloe McQuestion home run that scored
Kaci Alderson to put the Lakers up 5-1. A
Cheyenne Hindman double in the fifth and a Dejidas single in the sixth inning produced the Lakers final three runs of game one.
Mikaela Schramski got the start in game one for the Lakers, she went the distance striking out four on the way to picking up her sixth win of the season.
In the second game, the Saints managed to push a run across in the top half of the first inning, however that would be the only run that Mercyhurst starter
Morgan Hilty would give up in the game as the Lakers went on the win in five innings by a 9-1 score. Hilty went the distance, fanning three for her fourth win of the season.
The Laker bats began to warm up in the third inning as it was the junior Dejidas that drove in the first two runs on a swinging bunt that brought home
Brianne Egelston,
Chloe McQuestion also scored on the play after a throwing error to put the Lakers up 2-1. A
Cheyenne Hindman sac fly later in the inning would increase the Lakers lead to two.
The Lakers would tack on four more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, started by an Egelston two-run single to center field. Egelston would then go on to score after Marissa Cartellone reached on an error. Hindman closed out scoring in the fourth when she roped a double to the left-center gap that brought home Dejidas to put the Lakers up 7-1.
The Lakers completed the 8-run mercy rule victory in the fifth frame courtesy of two runs scored by McQuestion and Dejidas on errors by the Saints.
The Lakers will be back in action this Friday when they head to Greensburg, Pa to battle it out with Malone University at noon followed by a contest with Seton Hill at 2 o'clock.
