Box Score Game 1
Box Score Game 2
ABINGTON, Pa. – The Goldey-Beacom College softball team benefitted from outstanding pitching outings from junior Heather Draper and sophomore Sadie Jones, and the Lightning bats provided plenty of run support for good measure as head coach Jerry Grasso's squad clobbered Penn State Abington 21-0 and 16-1 in a non-league doubleheader this past Sun. afternoon.
GBC's 21 runs in the first game of the doubleheader was the most runs scored by a Lightning team since Mar. 1, 2008 when they tagged Keystone College for 22 runs in a lopsided 22-2 win. Goldey-Beacom improved to 7-4 with the sweep while PSU-Abington, a Division III school belonging to the Northeastern Athletic Conference, fell to 0-12.
Game 1: GBC 21, PSU-Abington 0
For the second time this year, all that separated Draper from the school's first-ever perfect game was one base-hit. She finished a complete, five-inning effort with just one hit allowed in the fourth frame, walked zero batters and struck out 13.
Meanwhile, the Lightning struck early and often as they collected 17 hits and 18 walks as a team while not one batter ever struck out. Ten different GBC players collected hits, but it was sophomore catcher Danielle Rice and sophomore designated hitter Shannon O'Hara who really provided the punch for the Lightning offensively.
Rice collected two hits (including a homerun in the fourth inning), drew three walks, drove in a game-high six runs and scored three of her own, while O'Hara had a game-high five hits in five at-bats (including a homerun and a double), four runs scored and two RBIs. Leadoff hitter, senior Lauren Witzke successfully got on base in all five of her plate appearances as she earned four base-on-balls to go with one base-hit on the day.
Game 2: GBC 16, PSU-Abington 1
Sophomore Sadie Jones was in the circle for the second game of the doubleheader and she too shut down the Nittany Lion offensive attack. Jones allowed just three hits, one run (unearned), and walked only two while striking out seven.
Again the Lightning bats were alive and well as 11 different Goldey-Beacom players contributed hits, including seven with two. Among the seven batters with two hits were the first five in the order: Witzke, Shannon Graves, O'Hara, Erin Poffenberger and Cailin Cavanaugh, respectively. Graves and Cavanaugh each hit doubles and Poffenberger belted a homerun in the third inning.
The Lightning scored five runs apiece in the first and second innings and cruised to a 16-1 victory.
