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Amanda Gough's two-out, walk-off single up the middle scored
Rebecca Lynch from second base to give the Clarion University softball team a 5-4 win in Game Two of a doubleheader against visiting Point Park Wednesday.
Point Park won Game One 6-1 when it scored six times in the top of the seventh to break a scoreless tie.
In Game Two, Clarion (7-9), which got its second walk-off win in a week, trailed 4-0 after 2 ½ innings before rallying back to get the victory.
The Golden Eagles tied the game with a four-spot in the bottom of the third, and the game remained tied until the seventh when Lynch smacked a one-out double to center that eluded a diving Point Park centerfielder Zoe Hughes. Then, after
Sara Clark had bounced back to the mound for the second out, Gough, the senior shortstop playing her first season of softball after spending four years with the volleyball team and this past winter with the women's basketball team, won the game with her base hit.
After allowing a run in the first and three more in the third, Clarion tied the game with the four-run bottom of the third. Lynch, who was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored and an RBI, drove home
Kirsten Wilcox with her first double, and then Clark, who was 2-for-4 with two RBIs, delivered a two-run single to right that scored
Taylor Sherry and Lynch. Gough later scored the tying run in the inning on a Point Park error.
Chelsea Zola got the win for the Golden Eagles going the distance pitching seven innings and allowing four runs, two earned, on seven hits and three walks while striking out one. She allowed just two hits after the third inning.
Game One was a classic pitcher's dual with neither team mounting much offense until the seventh inning.
Point Park, which had just two hits through the first six innings, scored six times in the top of the seventh with four of the runs against
Shawnna Crago being unearned.
Clarion, which was held hitless through six, tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh when Gough broke up the no-hitter with a base hit and later scored on a Sherry fielder's choice. Wilcox also had a hit in the in the inning as did
Paige Alexander.
Crago took the loss for Clarion going seven innings and allowing six runs, two earned, on eight hits and a walk while striking out one. All of the runs and six of the hits came in the seventh inning.
Clarion returns to action with a PSAC Central opening doubleheader at Lock Haven Friday. The first game is set for 2:30 p.m.