CLARION, Pa. – Shannon Gilbert and Heather Barrett combined to drive in seven runs to lead the Edinboro softball team to a 13-4 win in six innings at Clarion on Wednesday afternoon. The second game of the doubleheader was cancelled due to rain. 

The victory snapped a four-game losing skid while improving to 4-11. Clarion fell to 4-19. The game did not count as a PSAC contest, with Edinboro in the PSAC West and the Golden Eagles in the PSAC Central.

Edinboro pushed across runs in each of the first three innings to take a 7-0 lead. Gilbert plated her first run to start the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, and Lauren Gierlak stole home to account for the second run.

The Fighting Scots pushed across three runs in the second inning, two on Gilbert's single to center. Gierlak picked up an RBI on a groundout. They added two more runs in the third thanks to Barrett's two-run double to center.

Clarion scored a run in the bottom of the third, but Edinboro matched that with a run in the top of the fifth on Victoria Allocco's sacrifice fly.

The Golden Eagles closed the gap to 8-4 with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Back came the Fighting Scots in the top of the sixth, as they pushed across five runs on six hits. Gilbert accounted for the first run with a sacrifice fly. Allocco's single through the left side drove in the second run, and two more runs scored courtesy of a Clarion error. Barrett capped the scoring with a single to left.

Gilbert was 1-for-2 with the four RBIs, while Barrett had 2 hits in 3 at bats with 3 RBIs. Danna Heh was highly effective in the leadoff spot, going 4-for-5 with 3 runs scored. Roni Lipinski had a pair of hits in 4 at bats, while Allocco drove in a pair of runs.

Carley Nasca went the distance to improve to 2-4 on the season. The junior allowed three earned runs on seven hits and three walks, striking out three.

With warmer temperatures predicted for later this week, Edinboro looks to play its home opener on Friday, April 13, hosting Gannon in a doubleheader.