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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (April 23) – The Waynesburg University softball team played in its final regular season road doubleheader of 2013, when it traveled to Chatham on Tuesday for a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) doubleheader. The Yellow Jackets split the twin-bill with the Cougars, losing the opener 2-1, before rebounding with an eight-inning 7-6 win in game two.
 
Offense was hard to come by for the Jackets (15-17, 7-9), who managed its only run of the opener when sophomore courtesy runner Emily Sorton scored on a throwing error in the top of the fifth inning. Sorton's score tied the game at 1-1. The Cougars (8-26, 4-12) put the game away with a run in the bottom of the sixth.
 
Junior Carrie Maier suffered the hard-luck loss in the pitching circle after giving up just two earned runs on seven hits over six innings of work. She struck out five Cougars in the complete-game effort. Four different Jackets recorded one hit each in the opener.
 
Both teams cranked up the offense in game two. Waynesburg and Chatham scored two runs each in the first inning. The Cougars duplicated the feat in the top of the second, but the Jacket did them one better in the bottom of the frame. Sophomore shortstop Ashley Clark connected one of her three hits to score junior right fielder Jenna Dorazio and make the score 4-3 in favor of the Cougars. Waynesburg took its first lead of the day when Sorton connected on a two-run single that put the visitors ahead 5-4.
 
Both offenses went quiet for the next three innings before Chatham regained the lead (6-5) with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth. However, the Jackets had an answer in the form of an RBI double that came off the bat of freshman Samantha Pillar in the bottom half of the inning that tied things at 6-6. The score stayed knotted up through the end of regulation. Waynesburg finally claimed victory with an eighth-inning walk-off RBI single from sophomore Shelby Tabrosky that scored freshman Jenny Schoupe.
 
Maier took the win in the circle after pitching the final two innings of the victory. The staff ace didn't allow a hit or a walk and struck out two Cougars to move to 11-7 on the season. She was the third Jacket pitcher used in the victory and relieved freshman Stephanie Kotomski, who pitched four innings of relief, in which she gave up two runs, neither of which were earned, on four hits and no walks.
 
Clark paced the offense in the late game by going three-for-four at the plate with a double, a run scored and an RBI.
 
Waynesburg is scheduled to continue a busy final week of the season tomorrow, when the Jackets play host to Muskingum. First pitch of the doubleheader is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.