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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Athletics

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McKenna Wines
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Winner Lander LANDER 16-4
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Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB 11-8
Winner
Lander LANDER
16-4
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Final
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Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB
11-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Lander LANDER 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 1
Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 3

W: B. Pattison (8-1) L: Domenici, Ava (2-3)

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Assumption AU 2-4
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Winner Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB 12-8
Assumption AU
2-4
3
Final
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Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB
12-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Assumption AU 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 3
Embry-Riddle (Fla.) ERAUSB 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 10 0

W: Wood, Emma (4-0) L: P. Cote (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Kyrin Mayfield | @k_mayfield97

Walk-Off Wonders: Softball Grabs Third Walk-Off Win in Last Seven Days with 4-3 Defeat of Assumption After 4-2 Loss to Lander

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The Embry-Riddle softball team is making its case as the best show in town as the Eagles earned their fourth walk-off win of the season by defeating Assumption 4-3 on Tuesday. This came after a 4-2 setback to Lander to start the day.

It's also the third walk-off victory in the past seven days for the Blue and Gold and the earliest in a season the program has recorded three or more walk-off wins.


Lander - 4, Embry-Riddle - 2

Hits were hard to come by against the Bearcats (16-4) as it took five innings for the Eagles (12-8) to record their first. In the meantime, Lander took the opportunity to score four times in the second inning. A trio of throwing errors and a hit led to a 4-0 deficit.

Mallory Kinahan took over in the circle and put together her best appearance of the season. From the third to the sixth inning, the junior retired nine batters in a row with four strikeouts in that span. 

This gave the Blue and Gold time to respond, and that's exactly what they did. A leadoff single up the middle from Macchia had the offense cooking. Katriana Bain stepped in to pinch hit and sent a base hit through the right side. With Kressler in to run, she baited a throw down to second to allow Macchia to steal home for ERAU's first run. Then Raissa Bianco placed down a sac bunt to plate Kressler to cut the deficit in half at 4-2. 

Embry-Riddle did string together a pair of hits from Delaney Morgan and Sydney Linn in the sixth but couldn't add to the run column.

The Bearcats didn't have an answer for Morgan, who went 1-for-1 with two walks and a single-game career high two stolen bases. Bain and Linn also recorded pinch hit singles, and Macchia finished 1-for-3 with a run.

ERAU's four stolen bases were the program's most in a game this season. 

Ava Domenici (L, 2-3) only allowed one hit and one walk in 1.2 innings of pitching. None of the four runs she allowed were earned. Kinahan fanned a season-high five batters over 5.1 shutout frames of relief.


Embry-Riddle - 4, Assumption - 3

The theatrics came in game two of the day. It was another early deficit for the home team in the second inning. Two singles and a sac bunt had the Greyhounds (2-4) on top in the first ever meeting between the two programs. Then with the bases loaded, a hit batter drove in a second run for Assumption. 

The bats sparked in the bottom of the fourth for Embry-Riddle. Morgan started with a single and was safe at second due to a throwing error on a ground ball by Karina Ortiz-Munoz. Linn found an opening in center to load the bases which allowed Shelby Morse to send a sac fly to right to bring in Ortiz-Munoz.

However, the deficit returned to two runs in the next inning when a leadoff double and a single to follow scored a Greyhound, but it was reduced to one again in the bottom of the inning. Vanessa Gilbert was scraped by a pitch to open the inning. Bianco then singled to put runners on the corners. Emma Wood followed that up with an RBI single to center to allow Gilbert to score. 

With just one inning to go, the Blue and Gold used its late-game magic to come from behind and score two runs to win in walk-off fashion 4-3. Wood singled to first base with one out, and Serenity Jaenichen was inserted as a pinch runner. Morgan then recorded a base hit to put the winning run on first. The game was tied when Ortiz-Munoz lined a hit up the middle to bring Jaenichen in. Linn then stepped in and sent a high-bouncing chopper to the shortstop. It squeezed underneath the Greyhound's glove and out to left. Morgan sprinted home and slid in just ahead of the tag for the win. 

It was the program's 32nd walk-off and the 17th time the Eagles have erased a deficit in the seventh inning. 

Morgan tallied her team-high sixth multi-hit game of the season by going 2-for-4 with a run. Wood also went 2-for-4 but with an RBI, and Linn grabbed a pair of hits in four at-bats. 

Morse got the start in the circle and pitched five innings with two strikeouts. Wood (W, 4-0) maintained her unblemished record with two shutout innings and a pair of whiffs. 

The action continues on Wednesday with a doubleheader against Chowan starting at 4 p.m.
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