Posted: Mar 08, 2017
DANVILLE, KY – The Wilmington College softball team dropped a pair of games to Centre Wednesday in their season opener at the Centre College Softball Field.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 1: CENTRE 2, WILMINGTON 1 (8 INNINGS)
- Centre scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning.
- Senior Becca Carpenter, 0-1, (South Charleston, OH/Southeastern) allowed six hits in seven innings of work with two runs (one earned). She finished with a career-high 10 strikeouts and two walks.
- Junior Savannah Hooper (Leesburg, OH/Wilmington) scored the only run of the game, scoring on an error in the third inning.
- Centre knotted the game with a run in the fifth, before scoring the winning run in the eighth.
Freshman Grace Yoder (Springboro, OH/Springboro) was 2-for-4 on the game to lead the Fightin' Quakers.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME 2: CENTRE 11, WILMINGTON 3 (6 INNINGS)
- Freshman Mariyah Burkhardt (Springfield, OH/Kenton Ridge) was 2-for-2 with two doubles and two RBI in her first career start. She doubled home a run in the first and fifth innings.
- Hooper was 1-for-3 with two runs scored and two stolen bases.
- Junior Beth Persicano, 0-1, (Nashville, TN/Cincinnati (OH) Turpin) allowed five earned runs on seven hits in three innings of action. She added two strikeouts and a walk.
- The Colonels scored in every inning but the fourth, tallying two in the first and second innings. They added a run in the third, four in the fifth and two in the sixth.
HEAD COACH QUOTES
- "I was very pleased with how Becca pitched, and how we played. It was Centre's 11th game of the season and our first game of the year. We had a few things we needed to clean up to win a close, low scoring game," said Floyd.
- "There were some bright spots (in the second game)," said Floyd. "We hit the ball better and had some better approaches at the plate. But, you simply can't allow 16 hits and put that much pressure on yourself. Overall, the experience of the day was great for a lot of our younger players and even our veterans."
WHAT'S NEXT
Wilmington (0-2) travels to the Gene Cusic Classic in Ft. Myers, FL for eight games in five days, starting Sunday. The Fightin' Quakers will play Brockport 11 a.m. Sunday and UMass-Dartmouth 1 p.m, Sunday.