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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 18, 2013) – The Edinboro softball team found its way into the win column for the first time this season in emphatic fashion by sweeping a doubleheader Monday at Johnson C. Smith, recording an 8-4 game one victory before a 12-1 whitewashing in five innings for the nightcap.

Edinboro never trailed en route to improving to 2-3 on the season while Johnson C. Smith falls to 4-15.

Things started slowly in game one as both teams attempted to warm up through the cold, rainy conditions at Biddleville Park. Both starters  - Amanda Shields for Edinboro and Melissa Viera for Johnson C. Smith – kept zeroes on the scoreboard through the first two innings.


The Golden Bulls got a run back in the home half of the fourth on an RBI double from Alicia Chaudion.

Edinboro broke it open in the fifth and sixth, though. Taylor Rozantz and Victoria Filbert started the fifth with a double and bunt single back-to-back, setting the table for an infield hit from Brenna Cosgrove to score Rozantz. An error scored Filbert, giving the Boro a 4-1 lead. Four runs in the sixth put the game away, as Edinboro took full advantage of Golden Bull miscues to plate three unearned runs.

Shields (1-3) earned the victory with a complete game in the circle, scattering seven hits while allowing four runs. The senior walked only two while fanning seven batters.

Cassidy had a pair of hits and Filbert turned in the first multi-hit game of her Edinboro career with a 2-for-3 day and two runs scored.  Cosgrove also reached on two hits.

The Fighting Scots dominated the entirety of the nightcap. The freezing conditions gave way to an icy rain shortly before first pitch, but it didn't cool off the Boro bats.

Pullo started things off with a leadoff single followed by a steal of second and then third as well for her third and fourth stolen bags of the day. After a walk to Brooke Owen, a delayed steal and miscommunication between Johnson C. Smith defenders allowed Pullo to swipe home for the first run of the game. Cosgrove followed with a hit through the right side to plate Owen and tally a 2-0 lead.

The Scots touched home four times in the second when Rozantz and Alex Baer set the table with back-to-back hits to begin the frame. More Johnson C. Smith miscues allowed the Boro to take command of the game.
A six-run third effectively ended all doubt – Pullo, Cosgrove and Falk all delivered run-scoring blows in the inning.

The offense was more than enough for starter Roxanne Herrington (1-0). The senior hurler was excellent in the circle, limiting the Golden Bulls to just three hits and one unearned run in a complete game effort as the Boro took the 12-1 victory in five innings. Herrington showed impeccable control, striking out six and walking none in recording her first career complete game victory.

Baer led the way offensively with her first multi-hit game in red and white as well – a 3-for-3 day at the plate with two runs scored. Cosgrove, Falk and Pullo all had two hits in the game while Pullo, Falk and Ashley Black each drove in two runs apiece.

Freshman Tsuwli Wreh-Wilson recorded the first hit of her Edinboro career in her first at-bat, a sharply-hit single through the right side in the fifth.

Eleven different Fighting Scots recorded a season-high 16 hits on the day.

Pullo is now 8-for-8 on stolen base attempts in five games and has 54 for her career, 15 away from tying the school record of 69 set by Katelyn Gurgiolo in 2009. The senior shortstop also now has six hits on the year, putting her in a tie for ninth with Mandie Iorfido in Boro all-time career hits (118).

Edinboro returns to action outside Charlotte at Belmont-Abbey for two games Tuesday.