12
Winner
George Mason
MASON
9-18
Score By Periods
| Team |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
R |
H |
E |
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George Mason
MASON
|
7 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
12 |
9 |
1 |
|
Towson
TOWSON
|
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
1 |
W: Cooper, Carly (4-9)
L: Amanda Medina (2-1)
TOWSON, Md. – The George Mason softball team (9-18, 1-2 A-10) beat Towson (11-16, 3-3 CAA) 12-4 in five innings in their Wednesday afternoon game at Tiger Softball Stadium. This is the Patriots' second time this season in which they won by the Run-Ahead Rule, where they were ahead by eight or more runs by the end of the fifth inning. The first time was against
UMass Lowell on March 5, where they won 14-4.
PATRIOT HIGHLIGHTS
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The Patriots sent 11 batters to the plate in the first inning and scored seven runs. They would score three more in the second and two more in the fourth before the game ended in the fifth.
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Starting pitcher Carly Cooper (4-9) secured her team-leading fourth win on the season after pitching a complete game.
- After Elyssa DeRosa and scored off an error and Kamryn Inman and Kaleigh Friend drew a back-to-back bases-loaded walks, Logan Pickford cleared the bases with a three-run double breaking the game wide open.
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Rachel Warrens also went 2-for-3 and collected both of her hits in the first inning. The shortstop hit an RBI double on her second at-bat which capped a seven-run first inning.
- Designated player Emily Lampela went 2-for-3 and collected all three of her RBI on the day off her second inning home run.
GEORGE MASON 12, TOWSON 4 (5 INNINGS)
The Patriots broke the game wide open in the top of the first inning, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring seven runs. All seven of those runs came with two outs in the inning.
With
Rachel Warrens (2-3, R, RBI, 2B, BB, SB) on third,
Elyssa DeRosa (0-2, 2 R, 2 BB) reached first on a Towson first baseman fielding error, which allowed Warrens to score. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded,
Kamryn Inman (1-2, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B, BB), who leads the team in walks, drew a four-pitch walk which scored DeRosa. The very next at-bat, pinch hitter
Kaleigh Friend (0-0, RBI, BB) drew an RBI walk on a full count, extending the Patriot lead to three.
Up next to bat was catcher
Logan Pickford (1-3, R, 3 RBI, 2B) who hit a bases-clearing double to right field. Pickford would quickly be rewarded by reaching home on a Warrens RBI double of her own, which capped the seven-run inning.
After Towson got two runs back in the bottom of the first, the Patriots tacked on three more runs in the top of the second inning.
After
Maddy Myers (0-2, R, 2 BB) and DeRosa led the inning off with back-to-back walks, freshman designated player
Emily Lampela (2-3, 3 R, 3 RBI, HR) launched her second home run of the season over the right field wall. The Alexandria, Va., native now leads the team in home runs.
The Tigers would pick up another run in the bottom of the second with a two-out RBI single.
After a quiet third inning from both sides, the final two Patriot scores occurred in the top of the fourth inning. After Lampela singled and stole second, Inman hit an RBI double down the right field line. Inman would soon score as well, as the very next batter,
Charlotte Montgomery (1-2, R, RBI), hit an RBI single up the middle.
The Tigers would score just one more time in the bottom of the fifth inning, but after the third out was recorded, the game was called on account of the Run-Ahead Rule.
Starting pitcher
Carly Cooper (5.0 IP, 9 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 K) struck out four Tigers and secured her fourth win of the season. It was also her sixth complete game of the season. The senior now leads the pitching staff in wins.
UP NEXT
The Patriots will resume A-10 action later this weekend by traveling to Chicago to take on Loyola on March 23-24. Saturday's doubleheader will start at 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT, with the second game starting at 3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 CT. Sunday's finale will begin at 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT as well.
