• George Mason defeats Georgetown 4-3 behind freshman Marissa Butts' walk-off double.
• Senior Brooke Sullivan picks up two hits and scores the winning run on the walk-off hit.
• Sophomore Madison Aker gets credit for her first home run with an inside-the-park roundtripper in the bottom of the seventh to send the game to extra innings.

 
FINAL: Mason 4, Georgetown 3 (Eight innings)
Winning Pitcher: Bekah Ansbro (4-9) – Losing Pitcher: Katie Vannicola (0-5)
 
FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason was reinvigorated with energy after its eight-inning walk-off win over the Georgetown Hoyas in a Wednesday afternoon contest. Freshman Marissa Butts delivered the walk-off double to plate senior Brooke Sullivan for a 4-3 victory.
 
Butts' walk-off hit was the Patriots' first of the season in extra innings and put an exclamation point on the comeback victory.

Sullivan proved to be a tough out all day, going 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored. The RBI was her 13^th of the season to tie a career high and is one hit shy of tying last year's total (32) for this season.

The Patriots were lifted by its bullpen that turned in eight innings with just one run surrendered. Sophomores Madison Larsen, Taylor Mayer, freshman Haellie Gordon and sophomore Bekah Ansbro all pitched in at least an inning with Ansbro getting credit as the winning pitcher.
 
"Today was a good game that got [our development] done. We used a lot of people and all of our pitching got some work in. It was a good, well-played game," head coach Joe Verbanic said. "It was one of those really good team wins. Somewhere along the way you need one to get one of those wins that will help push you forward, and hopefully this is one of those wins."
 
The comeback storyline began right away as Georgetown posted two runs in the top of the first to take a 2-0 lead. While she wasn't the starting pitcher, Larsen entered the game with no outs in the first and ate up three innings without giving up an earned run.
 
Leading off the bottom of the second, sophomore Sydnee Wells found a pitch she liked and ripped it into the gap for her first triple of the season. The very next batter, Sullivan drove Wells in with a single up the middle to cut the Hoya lead in half at 2-1.
 
After a relatively quiet third and fourth innings, Georgetown retook a two-run lead with a solo home run in the top of the fifth. George Mason was up for the challenge and countered by immediately loading the based, highlighted by freshman Meghan Graham and sophomore Madison Aker drawing walks. With two outs, freshman Courteney Harper continued the unorthodox station-to-station softball by taking a pitch off the arm to drive in her first collegiate RBI and cut the Georgetown lead to 3-2.
 
The score remained 3-2 entering the bottom of the seventh. Aker led off the frame and clubbed an inside-the-park home run to tie the game at 3-3. It was the slap-hitter's third career extra base hit and the clutch at-bat went in the scorebook as her first collegiate home run.
 
Sophomore Bekah Ansbro shut the Hoyas down in the top of the eighth, giving her teammates the opportunity to win it in their half of the frame. Sullivan added to her already stellar afternoon with a double to right field to give the Patriots a runner in scoring position. The next batter, Butts, took a 2-2 pitch and doubled to left field to bring Sullivan home and ink George Mason's first extra-inning walk-off win of the season. Butts' double was her first extra-base hit of the season and clinched a 4-3 victory for the Patriots.
 
NEXT ON THE DIAMOND
 
George Mason heads back to the state of New York and will resume A-10 play against the St. Bonaventure Bonnies with a three-game series. The two squads will play a doubleheader on Saturday (April 14) beginning at noon, and will wrap up the series the next day at noon with one game. The Patriots have already played the Bonnies this season and beat them 5-3 in the Charleston Southern Tournament on Feb. 24.