WAYNESBURG, Pa. (March 20) – A six-run first inning powered the Waynesburg University softball team to a 7-3 game two win over Carnegie Mellon as the Jackets and Tartans split a doubleheader at the Waynesburg University baseball and softball complex on Wednesday. CMU took a 5-1 win in game one before the Jackets bounced back with a victory in game two.
After the twin bill Waynesburg sits at 7-4 on the season while CMU moves to 3-5.
Game 1 – Carnegie Mellon 5, Waynesburg 1
Tartan starter Amanda Smith stymied the Waynesburg bats in game one as the Jackets managed four hits in seven innings.
CMU took a 5-0 lead after three with two runs in the second and a home run and triple in a three-run third
Kassidy Trimble (Parkersburg, W.Va. / Parkersburg Sout) led off the bottom of the sixth with a double and scored Waynesburg's lone run on a double by
Grace Higgins (Canonsburg, Pa. / Canon-McMillan).
Trinity Edge (Franklin, Pa. / Franklin) tossed four scoreless and hitless innings in relief of starter
Autumn Stemple (Morgantown, W.Va. / University).
Game 2 – Waynesburg 7, Carnegie Mellon 3
Game two starter
Sydney Wilson (Pentress, W.Va. / Clay-Battelle) kept CMU off the scoreboard in the opening frame with back-to-back strikeouts to leave a runner stranded on third.
The Jackets posted their highest-scoring inning of the season in the home half of the first. Higgins and
Bella DeMark (Carnegie, Pa. / Bishop Canevin) each had run-scoring doubles,
Ella Brookman (Washington, Pa. / Chartiers-Houston) and Trimble both brought home runs with base hits and the Jackets took advantage of two errors in the inning. When the dust settled, Waynesburg led 6-0.
The six runs of support proved enough for Wilson as she stranded two runners in the second and third innings. The Tartans scratched a pair of runs across with on a wild pitch and a two-out RBI single in the fourth.
Waynesburg went ahead 7-2 in the fifth as Wilson doubled home DeMark. CMU responded with a sacrifice fly in the top of the sixth but could not bring the tying run to the plate in the seventh as the Jackets emerged with a 7-3 win.
Wilson collected a complete game win as she allowed three runs (two earned) in seven innings. She stranded eight Tartans and struck out four on the day. At the plate Wilson had two doubles and an RBI.
Trimble, Brookman, Edge and Wilson each had two hits in the game. DeMark drove in a pair and scored twice.
The Jackets open Presidents' Athletic Conference play at home against Thiel on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
