IMMACULATA, Pa. – Ursinus softball junior
Samantha Mallen set the Ursinus softball career stolen base record as the Bears took on Immaculata in a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday.
Ursinus got on the board right off the bat in the top of the first in game one as back-to-back doubles from seniors
Maddie Solow and
Sara Sullivan made it 1-0. Immaculata responded with two runs in the bottom half of the inning and took their first lead of the game at 2-1. Mallen walked to lead the top of the fifth and immediately stole second to take the record with her 65th career stolen base that surpassed the previous mark of 64 held by Janetta Trecroce. Mallen advanced to third on a wild pitch and Sullivan singled to tie the game at two in the very same at-bat. Ursinus broke the game open in the top of the sixth with six runs that all came with two outs. Senior
Sarah DiLello walked and Mallen reached on an error that kept the inning alive. Solow took advantage of the error by roping a two run double to left field that put Ursinus in front, 4-2. Singles from Sullivan and sophomore
Kayla Carr made it 5-2 before junior
Rachel Hartman doubled in both that made it 7-2. Junior
Stephanie Wichman capped the scoring with a single after senior
Madison Wilson walked in the previous at-bat. The Mighty Macs got a run back in the bottom of the sixth with a two-out single, but Sullivan responded by singling in two more runs in the top of the seventh to make it 10-3. Immaculata scored one more run in the bottom of the seventh before sophomore pitcher
Christa Andrusiewicz closed out the complete game win.
Sullivan went a perfect 4-for-4 from the plate with four RBI's while Carr went 3-of-5 with an RBI and run scored. DiLello went a perfect 3-of-3 from the plate with two runs scored while Solow, Hartman, and Wichman all tallied two hits apiece.
In game two, the game went scoreless into the seventh inning before the Bears took a 2-0 lead behind back-to-back singles from Mallen and Solow. However, the Mighty Macs forced extra innings by scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh with the second run coming with two outs off a single. Using the international tiebreaker for extras that places a runner on second to start the inning, the Bears scratched across a run in the top of the eighth and the Mighty Macs ended the game with three.
The Bears return to action on Saturday, March 30th as they will open Centennial Conference play at Washington College starting at 1:00 p.m.
