Bobcats Softball Drops Two to Salisbury
The Frostburg State Bobcats softball team took on the Salisbury Seagulls in a double header this past Monday. The Bobcats lost in both games that would close the 2019 CAC regular season.
The Bobcats fell 6-4 in the first game, and 11-7 in game two in six innings as the game was called short due to darkness.
In the first inning, first-year Amber Keene helped put the Bobcats first pair of points up on the board with a solo home run in the bottom of the second to open the scoring in game one.
Both teams would go scoreless until the top of the 5th as Salisbury strung together a couple of hits that would put them up 2 to 1.
In the bottom of the 6th, Frostburg junior Katelyn Mehrling to reached on a fielding error by Salisbury infield to tie the game. In the 7th inning, both teams scored two runs a piece to even the score at 4-4 as sophomore Kat Treff hit her first career home run that scored both her and sophomore Taylor McCarty.
In the 9th inning, Salisbury pulled away scoring 2 runs off of a hit and a Bobcat error. The Seagulls would hold the Bobcats scoreless in the bottom of the 9th sealing the victory.
Keene had two hits, two runs, and one RBI. McCarty had two hits and 1 run, and sophomore Sam Carver finished with two hits also. Mehrling took the loss making her record 6 wins and 7 losses.
In the second game of the double header, both teams held each other scoreless in the first inning. In the 2nd inning, both teams would score to start what would become a high scoring game.
In the top of the 3rd, the Seagulls would pull to a 3-1 lead. First-year Erica Payne singled home Keene to pull within one.
In the top of the 4th, Salisbury would jump out to a big lead with 8 scored runs making it 11-2. Frostburg tried to start a comeback by scoring two runs in the bottom of the 4th. Sophomore Aliyah Ramey had a grounded-out RBI to send Treff home. Senior Olivia Ford also came home to score the second run in the inning.
The Bobcats would go on another scoring run in the bottom of the fourth and fifth with Treff, Ford and sophomore Claire Hanlon scored 3 runs to make the score 11 to 7.
The next two innings both teams were held scoreless, and the game ended in the 6th inning do to darkness.
Ford had 3 hits, two runs and two RBI’s. Hanlon had 1 hit, 1 run scored, and 1 RBI. Ramey had 1 hit and 2 RBI’s scored. McCarty took the loss in the circle.
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