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Box Score 2 (CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky.) – The Thomas More College softball team split a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) doubleheader with Bethany College today (Saturday, April 18, 2015) at Thomas More Field in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. The Saints won game one, 6-0, and Bethany won the nightcap, 6-4, in nine innings.
With the split, the Saints are 20-14 overall and 10-4 in the PAC and the Bison are 14-14 overall and 7-5 in the PAC.
In the first game, Thomas More scored three runs in the third and four in the fifth, while junior pitcher Mamee Salzer (Erlanger, Ky./St. Henry) pitched seven shutout innings and gave up only three hits, while striking out five for the 6-0 victory.
Four Saints had multiple hits in the game as freshman right fielder Laura Finke (Fort Wright, Ky./Notre Dame Academy) was three-for-four with two runs scored, Salzer was two-for-four with a double, two runs batted-in and one run scored, freshman designated player Bree Appel (Amelia, Ohio/Batavia) was two-for-three with two RBI and a run scored and senior center fielder Catie Luck (Maineville, Ohio/Little Miami) was two-for-three.
In the nightcap, Bethany scored four in the first and Thomas More scored two in the first, one in the second and one in the sixth to force extra innings. In the ninth inning, the Bison pushed across two runs and held the Saints scoreless in the bottom half of the inning to claim the 6-4 win.
Finke led the team at the plate as she was three-for-five with a run scored and junior shortstop Ana Walter (Lebanon, Ohio/Lebanon) was two-for-four with three runs scored.
Freshman pitcher Dallis Knotts (Florence, Ky./Boone County) earned a no-decision as she pitched one inning and gave up four runs (one earned) on three hits and struck out one. Salzer suffered the loss as she pitched eight innings and gave up two runs (both unearned) on six hits and struck out six.
The Saints return to action on Wednesday (April 22) when they travel to New Wilmington, Pennsylvania to play Westminster in a PAC doubleheader starting at 3:30 p.m.
