Softball | 5/3/2014 9:56:00 AM

Box Score SALEM, Va. – Fairmont State broke open a close game with a five-run uprising in the bottom of the fifth here Friday en route to a 9-1 victory against West Liberty in a Mountain East Conference Softball Tournament elimination game at the Moyer Sports Complex.
    The Hilltoppers didn't let their season come to an end without a fight.
    After the No. 3-seeded Falcons pushed a run across in the bottom of the first, West Liberty's Allyson Johnson launched a solo home run over the left field fence in the top of the second to knot the score at 1-1.
    Fairmont State pushed back ahead, 3-1, with two more runs in the bottom of the second but the teams traded zeros after that before the Falcons' big rally in the fifth.
    The Falcons stayed alive to take on Glenville State later today in another elimination game.
 
SOFTBALL
MEC Tournament
Losers' Bracket
Fairmont State 9, West Liberty 1
West Liberty              010 000 – 1    4  3
Fairmont State          120 051 – 9  10  0
    WLU: Creamer lp (3SO, 1W), Mihalik (0SO, 3W), Young (0SO, 1W) and Burke. Johnson HR, rbi
    FSU: Robins wp (7SO, 2W) and Bowman. Parsons 2D, rbi; Nuzum 2S; Stubbs S, 2rbi; Skidmore S, rbi; Tyree S, rbi; Mundie S, rbi; Aversa D.