Meadville, PA – The Oberlin College softball team traveled across state lines to Allegheny College on Saturday afternoon, dropping both ends of the North Coast Athletic Conference doubleheader by the scores of 9-1 (5 Inn.) and 6-5 in walk-off fashion.
Senior
Cat Moruzzi moved into sixth all-time on Oberlin's career hit list in just 67 games played, which is essentially just over a season and half. Moruzzi finished the day with five hits to run her career ledger to 115 as she moved ahead of Tori Poplaski's career total of 111.
After a tough loss in game one, the Yeowomen gave the Gators all they could handle in the nightcap, rallying for three runs in the sixth inning to even the score at 5-5.
The crooked number started with
Anna Slebonick belting an RBI single back up the middle and after another run came across on a wild pitch to shrink the gap to just one. However, it was
Kathryn Beeman's single to center to score Slebonick that tied the game.
The two team's traded tallies in the early going with Oberlin scoring in the top of the second on a backside single by
Mia Brito that plated
Lalli Lopez. Allegheny would answer with a four-spot in the bottom of the frame to take a 5-1 lead, but Oberlin would get one back in third on a sac fly by first-year
Loren Carter.
Allegheny held on to the three-run advantage until the sixth before walking-off with the win in the seventh as Sophia Godzak's dumped an RBI single into shallow right field.
Oberlin finished with 13 hits in the game with Lopez leading the way with three, while Moruzzi, Carter, and Brito each finished with a pair.
Rookie pitcher
Calliope Lissak (1-3) went the distance, giving up six runs on 12 hits and a walk while striking out three.
In game one the Yeowomen had half of their six hits in the first inning and scored their lone run of the game. Moruzzi sent an opposite-field double down the left field line and would then come around to score on a single by Lopez.
However, Allegheny would respond with eight runs over the next three innings and never look back en route to the run-rule victory. The Gators scored a pair in the first, four in the second, and added two more in the third.
A Joplin Osgood RBI single in the fifth would get the Gators to the eight-run advantage to put the finishing touches on the lid-lifter.
Moruzzi went 3-for-3 in the loss, accounting for half of the team's hit total.
Alaina Di Dio (3-6) lasted just two innings inside the circle as she was tagged for six runs (five earned) on six hits and three walks to go along with one strikeout.
The Yeowomen return home to host Hiram College on Wednesday afternoon in another NCAC double-dip. The first pitch from Culhane Field is set for 3:30 p.m.
