Melanie Bushman and Stephanie Lieto had two key hits in the fourth, as Bushman plated Kayla Crager for the tying run and Lieto doubling in Allison Ramsay for the go-ahead score. DC later put an insurance run in the next inning off of an error by the shortstop.
Crager and Aarika Davis each had two hits and a run scored in the game, with Bushman and Lieto contributing a hit and an RBI apieace.
Game two saw another pitcher’s duel as DC’s Robin Diers and MC’s Kristin Brown faced off for an extra-inning affair. DC’s scored first in the third inning, when Laurel Palk came across on a Kelsey Sugg RBI single. The Jackets’ one-run advantage would remain until the bottom of the sixth, when the Spartans retaliated with an RBI single of their own.
With the score knotted at one, neither team could manage to bring around the go-ahead run in regulation, sending the game into extra innings. DC was finally able to seize the opportunity to score in the ninth, when Amanda Auzins brought Sugg home from third with a sacrifice fly to right field. DC was able to shut the door in the bottom of the frame, ending the contest on a line drive double play.
Diers pitched nine innings of one-run ball, allowing nine hits with two strikeouts. Sugg put together her first three-hit game of the year in the matchup, along with the game-winning run.
The two wins gives DC its first two conference victories of the season, bring the Yellow Jackets' overall record to 8-11.
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