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Box Score 2 (ONEIDA, Tenn.) – The Thomas More University softball team split a pair of games on the final day of the Bear Creek Tournament on Sunday (February 23, 2020), hanging on for a 2-1 win over the University of Rio Grande in the first game and falling 12-0 to Webber International University in the final game.
RIO GRANDE GAME
- Rio Grande opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first.
- Thomas More scored their two runs in the third inning when sophomore Lindsey Meier (Fort Wright, Ky./Notre Dame Academy) crossed the plate on an error, then sophomore Elana Harrison (Mason, Ohio/Mason) drove home pinch runner junior Valerie Hudepohl (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills) with an RBI single to conclude the scoring.
- Meier was 2-for-4 with a run.
- Senior Andrea Gahan (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills) was 2-for-4.
- Senior Sydney Turner (Harrison, Ohio/Harrison) had a pair of hits as she went 2-for-3.
- Harrison was 1-for-3 with an RBI.
- First-year Hailey McAdoo (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mercy McAuley) went 1-for-3 to collect her first hit in a Saints uniform.
- Senior Amanda Lloyd (Alexandria, Ky./Bishop Brossart) went 1-for-4.
- First-year Annika Gels (Eaton, Ohio/Eaton) earned her first career win with a complete game victory, scattering eight hits and a walk over seven innings while allowing just one run and striking out four.
WEBBER INTERNATIONAL GAME
- The Warriors opened the game with a run in the top of the first.
- Webber International added two more in the second inning to make it a 3-0 game.
- The Warriors broke the game open with seven runs in the third inning to extend their lead to 10-0.
- Webber International scored one in the fourth to make it an 11-0 game.
- The Warriors capped off the scoring with a run in the fifth to extend their lead to 12-0
- Meier collected a pair of hits as she went 2-for-2.
- Gahan went 1-for-2 with a double.
- Senior Kianah Towe (West Chester, Ohio/Lakota East) took the loss after allowing seven runs, six earned, on eight hits and a walk over two innings.
- First-year Hannah Bishop (Union, Ky./Ryle) pitched three innings and give up two earned rus on six hits.
- The Saints moved to 2-2 overall.
- Thomas More will travel to Columbus, Ga. for the NFCA Leadoff Classic on February 28-29.
