Softball | 3/18/2016 7:32:00 PM
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Box Score 2 WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University softball team dropped both ends of a Mountain East Conference doubleheader to West Virginia State Friday afternoon at the WLU Softball Complex.
Coach Jim Bacca's Hilltoppers (6-18, 0-4) came out on the short end of 6-5 and 10-2 counts against the visiting Yellowjackets (18-7, 3-1). In the opener, the Hilltoppers came all the way back from a 5-0 deficit with a five-run rally in the bottom of the sixth only to see the Yellowjackets push across the game-winner in the top of the seventh.
All nine West Liberty batters had a hit in the first game. Nicole Chris drove in two runs with a single while Nicki Mihalik and Savannah Sieger had RBI base knocks. Damia Mogielski doubled and scored a run. In the second game, State jumped out early with five runs in the top of the first. West Liberty got a couple of runs back in the bottom of the second but the Yellowjackets put the game on ice with five more runs in the fourth.
SOFTBALL
W.Va. State 6, West Liberty 5
W.Va. State 004 010 1 - 6 8 2
West Liberty 000 005 0 - 5 9 0
WVS: Parkins (1SO, 3W), Norton wp (6) (1SO, 1W) and Allison. Kaplan 2HR, 3rbi; Loftis HR, D, 2rbi; Allison D, S, rbi; Hale 2S
WLU: Sieger lp (9SO, 5W) and Mogielski. Chris S, 2rbi; Mihalik S, rbi; Sieger S, rbi; Mogielski D
W.Va. State 10, West Liberty 2
W.Va. State 500 50 - 10 12 0
West Liberty 020 00 - 2 5 2
WVS: Norton wp (1SO, 1W) and Allison. Loftis D, S, 2rbi; Funk 2S, rbi; Mirabe 2S, rbi; Allison 2S, rbi; Hale 2S
WLU: Zeiger lp (2SO, 1W), Barr (4) (0SO, 2W) and Mogielski. Bennington T, S, 2rbi; Johnson D; Tenney D.
