BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle softball team split a doubleheader with Lynn on Saturday. Game one ended in a 1-0 shutout for the Eagles and game two ended after 10 innings with the Fighting Knights getting the walk-off run for a 2-1 victory. The Blue and Gold's record is now 22-20 while LU becomes 23-16.
GAME ONE – ERAU 1, LU 0
The game got off to slow start with neither team putting a runner on base until the fifth inning.
Kassidy Simons led off the fifth inning with a single through the left side.
Hannah Thomas then reached first on an infield error that also allowed Simons to go to third.
Gabriella Obia singled in Simons to score the only run of the game.
The Fighting Knights put runners on after they were hit by pitches in the same inning but couldn't push any runs across. They had an opportunity to knot the game in the bottom of the seventh with runners on the corners, but Eagle pitcher
Ilona Andringa was quick to strike out the batter for the third out and end the game with the Eagles coming out on top 1-0.
Andringa (13-10) earned the win after pitching a complete game shutout and allowed only two hits that both came in the seventh inning, striking out eight. Simons finished 1-for-3 with one run while Obia finished 1-for-2 with an RBI tallying the team's only hits.
GAME TWO – LU 2, ERAU 1
Game two got off to a quicker start with Lynn taking the lead with one run in the second inning.
The Eagles fought through the next three innings and knotted the game in the sixth when Scott walked to lead off the inning, stole second, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt and came home on
Anna Battison's sacrifice fly.
Stuck in a stalemate at one, the game was forced into extra innings. The Eagles put runners on but could not bring in a run. Lynn put a runner on third in the bottom of the 10th inning and an Eagle error allowed her to come home for a 2-1 walk-off win for the Fighting Knights.
Simons (9-10) took the complete game loss giving up two runs on five hits with seven strikeouts. Thomas and Scott had the only hits for the Blue and Gold with one apiece while Battison had the team's only RBI.
The Eagles return home to face Barry in a three-game series starting with game one on April 13 at 6 p.m.
