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Box Score 2 HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Arcadia Knights softball team dropped both ends of a non-conference double header to the Haverford College Fords by scores of 10-2 and 14-1. The Knights fell to 2-8 on the season, while the Fords improved to 9-1.
The Knights led 2-1 in game-one after sophomore
Erin Wilson (Bethlehem, Pa.) drove in a pair of runs with her double to center field in the top of the fourth, but Haverford answered with three runs in the bottom half of the frame on junior Jill Schnall's (Wayne, Pa.) RBI-double to center and junior Julie Garlick's (Waynesboro, Pa.) two-run single up the middle, giving the Fords a 4-2 lead.
Haverford then exploded for six runs on six hits, a walk and a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth for the 10-2 final. Junior Dayle Comerford (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) drove in a pair of runs with a bases-loaded single through the right side of the infield, and classmate Stephanie Wolfson (Blue Bell, Pa.) later ended the game with an RBI-single through the left side to plate Comerford with the game-ending run.
Sophomore Emily Winsett (St. Petersburg, Fla.) improved to 3-0 for the Fords after allowing two runs on three hits while recording eight strikeouts in six innings of work. Comerford finished 2-for-4 with three RBI and one run scored, while Schnall finished the game 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two driven in.
Wilson took the loss for the Knights after giving up all 10 runs, eight earned, on 11 hits in 5.1 innings, dropping her record to 1-4. She was 1-for-2 with a double and two RBI at the dish.
Haverford's bats didn't cool off between games. The Fords scored one run in the first and two in the second to stake themselves to an early 3-0 lead, and then exploded for 11 runs in the bottom of the fourth as they took game-two 14-1 in five innings.
Garlick went 2-for-3 with one double, one home run, four RBI and a run scored, while senior Elizabeth Newman (Sudbury, Mass.) went 4-for-4 with four RBI and three runs scored. That was more than enough for sophomore Sara Tauriello (Elma, N.Y.), who improved to 2-0 after allowing just one hit and fanning nine batters in four innings.
Sophomore
Sarah Gunia (East Brunswick, N.J.) fell to 1-3 for Arcadia after allowing 10 runs, nine earned, on 11 hits in 3.2 innings. Classmate
Sara Boyadjis (Cedar Knolls, N.J.) went 2-for-3 at the plate with a double.
The Knights will look to bounce back Sunday when they host a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader against Albright College at Blankley Field starting at 1 p.m.