Youngstown State University
Loyola Chicago
Softball Falls Twice at Loyola, 3-2, 10-2
4/10/2010 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Chicago, Ill. -- The Youngstown State softball team fell to 8-22 overall and 1-4 in the Horizon League after dropping a pair of games to Loyola, 3-2 and 10-2, on Saturday afternoon at the Loyola Softball Park.
In the opener, sophomore Haley Thomas went 2-for-2, including a game-opening solo home run, to put the Penguins ahead 1-0 in the top of the first inning.
After the Ramblers tied the game in the bottom half of the first, the Penguins regained the lead when sophomore Kristen Philen doubled home Autumn Grove in the top of the fourth inning to take a 2-1 edge/
The Ramblers knotted the game in the bottom of the fourth and scored the eventual game-winning run in the top of the fifth.
Senior Cheryl Cale was the hard-loser throwing a complete game with a strikeout and no walks and scattered nine hits.
In the nightcap, the Ramblers scored seven run
in the first four innings and the Loyola pitchers allowed just four
hits.
Philen doubled home sophomore Jordan Ingalls, who walked, and then
scored on Sarah Gabel's single to left field for the Penguins' only
two runs.
The Penguins and Ramblers conclude the series, Sunday, April 11, at 1 p.m.
