April 28, 2004
Game 1 Box Score
| Game 2 Box Score
EMMITSBURG, Md. - Ashley Purcell tallied six hits and scored four runs to help George Mason sweep a non-conference doubleheader against Mount St. Mary's on Wednesday. The Patriots won the first game 4-2 in nine innings before taking the nightcap, 2-1.
Purcell notched three hits and two runs scored in both games, including touching home for the game-winner in each contest. She also had four stolen bases in the two games.
Stacy James added two hits and four RBIs while Miranda Fox pitched a complete game, allowing two runs on three hits with 12 strikeouts to pick up the extra-inning win. Megan Farrell won the nightcap, going the distance and allowing one run on four hits with five strikeouts.
Lisa Worden (Hampstead, Md./North Carroll) and Kathleen Housman (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll) paced the Mount (13-30) with two hits apiece. Housman and Maria Lutz (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield Township) each drove in a run in the twinbill.
The Patriots (27-27) scored the final four runs in the first game to come from behind to win in nine innings and then the squad continued its success in the nightcap, scoring the first two runs to help take the second game, 4-2.
Mount St. Mary's took a 2-0 advantage in the fourth of the first game, but George Mason knotted the game at 2 with two runs in its next at-bat.
After Fox, Missi Hartman and Purcell each reached to open the fifth, James plated Fox and Hartman on a low-liner single to center field. Kim Braxton then singled to reload the bases, but the Mount got out of the jam and neither team threatened to score again until the ninth inning.
Purcell helped manufacture the game-winning run in the ninth after reaching on a single to right field. She then stole second and third before touching home on Hartman's RBI single. James added an insurance run, plating Hartman on a triple to center field to take a 4-2 advantage.
Mount St. Mary's got on the scoreboard first in the fourth. Worden singled with one out and came around to score on a Lutz double to left center. Lutz scored on a wild pitch to give the Mount a brief 2-0 edge.
It did not take long for the Patriots to put a run on the scoreboard in the nightcap. Purcell started the contest with an infield single and then stole second before Hartman brought Purcell home on an RBI single up the middle.
George Mason added an insurance it would need in the sixth. Purcell was the catalyst again, opening the stanza with a single down the left field and then she stole second. James plated Purcell with the eventual game-winner on an RBI bunt for a 2-0 lead.
The Mount cut the deficit to 2-1 in the seventh, but could get no closer. Seniors Jen Sansevero (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) and Eileen Williams (Herndon, Va./Chantilly) walked and singled, respectively, in their final at-bat in a Mountaineer uniform to start the seventh-inning rally. After Williams was forced out at second for the second out of the inning, Housman brought Sansevero home on an opposite-field single for the only run in the second game.
Mount St. Mary's ends its season at 13-30.
