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Senior Kylie Russell, a Jersey Shore graduate, tossed seven scoreless innings, striking out six and allowing four hits, and junior Avery Eiswerth, a Williamsport graduate, tossed six innings, allowing two runs, as the Lycoming College softball team beat the Mississippi University for Women, 2-0, before falling to Mount Aloysius, 2-1, in the nightcap on Monday.
In the first game of the day, junior Rachel Daub paced the offense, going 2 for 3 with a run and a RBI triple to lead the Warriors to a 2-0 win over MUW.
The Warriors got on the board in the third inning, as sophomore Claire Alexander, a South Williamsport graduate, singled into center field with one out and scored when Daub hit an opposite field triple down the right field line.
In the sixth, Daub singled to lead off, moved to second when Eiswerth drilled a liner off the third baseman and scored on a single through the left side by sophomore Mallory Rodarmel, a Loyalscok graduate.
Russell (1-0) threw five shutout innings in her first start of the year, allowing four hits and striking out three. She worked out of a second and third jam with no outs in the fifth, getting two pop outs and a groundout to end the threat. Eiswerth worked two perfect innings to get the save, striking out one.
The Warriors get back on the field on Tuesday, March 12, when they face Maine-Presque Isle at 11 a.m. and Oswego at 3 p.m. as their time at the Fast Pitch Dreams Spring Classic.
• Junior Danny DeLucas led a group of five Lycoming College baseball players to post a multi-hit game as he went 4 for 6 with two RBI, but Albright College left a Lycoming runner stranded at second base to escape with a 9-8 non-conference win on Monday.
Sophomore Nick Reeder, a Montoursville graduate went 3 for 5 with two runs and two RBI, sophomore Zachary Pleska went 3 for 5 with a run, a triple and two RBI, freshman Eric MacCluen went 2 for 5 and sophomore Jack Kelly went 2 for 4 with a run and a double.
The Warriors (3-7 overall) scored two in the top of the first, with Reeder walking, stealing second, taking third on a flyout and scoring on a two-out error that allowed junior Evan Mok to reach. Mok scored on a single by Pleska. In the second inning, Reeder singled again, stole second and scored on a single from DeLucas to make it, 3-0.
The Warriors are back on the field on Tuesday, March 12, when they head to fifth-ranked Salisbury University for a 3:30 p.m. start.