Box Score (New/Sortable Format) EDINBORO, Pa. (April 24, 2104) – Edinboro's chase for a PSAC playoff berth got a little more difficult on Thursday as the Fighting Scots dropped a pair of games to Slippery Rock. The Rock won the first game 10-1 in six innings, then prevailed in the nightcap by a 3-1 score. The pair of losses drop the Fighting Scots to 15-20-1 overall and 10-13-1 in the PSAC West. SRU climbed back into the hunt, now showing records of 16-21 and 11-11, respectively.
The Fighting Scots were their own worst enemy in the first game, committing five errors and allowing nine unearned runs. Katie Kaiser hit a two-run homer with two outs in the top of the sixth for the winning runs in the nightcap. Edinboro was no match for SRU's Emily Lobdell, who threw a pair of two-hitters as the Scots managed just four hits on the afternoon.
California(Pa.) and Indiana(Pa.) have secured two of the four PSAC West playoff berths. Edinboro (10-13-1), Slippery Rock (11-11), Gannon (10-12), Mercyhurst (9-14-1) and Seton Hill (9-13) are battling for the other two playoff spots. The Fighting Scots will host Gannon on Friday and Seton Hill on Saturday. The Rock still has a pair of doubleheaders against Cal, plus another against IUP. Gannon swept a doubleheader from Clarion on Thursday, and now faces doubleheaders against Edinboro and Clarion the next two days. On Sunday the Lady Knights must finish the first game of a twinbill at Seton Hill, leading 9-0 in the fifth, before playing the second game. Mercyhurst must still play Cal and IUP. Seton Hill has Clarion, Edinboro and the Gannon doubleheader remaining on its schedule.
Game 1 – Slippery Rock 10, Edinboro 1 (6 innings)The Rock jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, then pushed across unearned five runs in the top of the sixth inning. The sloppy contest saw Edinboro commit five errors and allow just one earned run. SRU pounded out ten hits while the Fighting Scots managed just a pair of safeties.
Brooke Callaghan accounted for Edinboro's lone run with a solo homer to left in the second inning, her fifth of the season. Edinboro's only other hit was a single by
Haley Struebing in the fourth.
Samantha Weaver started and took the loss to fall to 3-8. Emily Lobdell went all six innings, walking two and recording six strikeouts.
Game 2 – Slippery Rock 3, Edinboro 1SRU's Katie Kaiser broke up a pitcher's duel between the Boro's
Kalet Lenart and Lobdell with a two-run homer to left with two outs in the sixth inning. Lenart got the first two batters of the inning before Taylor Welch kept the inning going with a single. Lenart got ahead of the count on Kaiser at 1-and-2, but the Slippery Rock shortstop fouled off several pitches and worked the count to 3-and-2 before poling her third home run of the year. Kaiser drove in all three runs for The Rock, adding an RBI single in the first inning. The run was unearned courtesy of a passed ball. Edinboro scored its lone run in the bottom of the first inning.
Brenna Cosgrove opened with an infield single, and moved up on a bunt single by
Kylie Mason. Cosgrove would eventually score on a passed ball. Unfortunately, those were the only two hits of the game for the Fighting Scots as Lobdell, now 9-8, threw another two-hitter. She walked two and struck out four while retiring the final 18 batters she faced. The freshman Lenart made just the one mistake while falling to 8-8. She gave up five hits and a pair of earned runs while walking one and striking out five.
