Box Score ASTON, Pa. – The fifth-seeded Arcadia University softball team scored three times in each of the first two innings on its way to a 6-2 victory at fourth-seeded Neumann University Wednesday in the opening round of the 2014 ECAC Division III South Championship Tournament Saturday.
 
The Knights (21-21) will next face top-seeded Misericordia University, which is hosting the four-team double-elimination portion of the tournament May 10-11. The two teams will meet Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Admission for each day will be $8 for adults, and $4 for seniors, students and children under 12.
 
Junior Jessica Shotwell (Winsted, Conn.) reached on an infield single to start the game and later scored on an error that moved sophomore Sarah Boyadjis (Cedar Knolls, N.J.) to second following her single to left-center. Senior Jessica Wood (Columbus, N.J.) then drove in Boayadjis with a double down the left field line and then scored on classmate Leanda Helms' (Topton, Pa.) single to right, giving Arcadia a 3-0 lead.
 
Sophomore Erin Wilson (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Shotwell both singled to start off the top of the second and came around to score on Boyadjis' double down the left field line, giving the Knights a 5-1 lead. Sophomore Alicia McMahon (Bel Air, Md.) later drove in Boyadjis from third with a two-out single up the middle that put Arcadia ahead 6-1.
 
Neumann (24-12) got on the board in the bottom of the first on sophomore Danielle Grayson's (Williamstown. N.J.) two-out RBI single down the right field line, and added its second run on junior Becca Reinhart's (Shoemakersville, Pa.) two-out RBI-single to right in the bottom of the fifth.
 
Boyadjis went 2-for- with a double, two runs scored and two driven in, while Shotwell went 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored. Wood was 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.
 
Wilson went the distance in the circle for the Knights, allowing one earned run on seven hits with three strikeouts as she improved to 13-8 for the season. Wilson helped her cause by going 1-for-3 with a run scored at the plate.
 
Sophomore Lauren Wilkie (Newark, Del.) fell to 11-4 for Neumann after allowing six runs, five earned, on nine hits in two innings, while freshman Haley Broomell (Woodstown, N.J.) and junior Kristin Beaty (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.) combined to allowed just one hit in five combined innings of relief. Reinhart finished 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run scored.