READING, Pa. – The Albright softball team got a ninth-inning walk-off win in the second game of its doubleheader with Alvernia on Wednesday afternoon. The Lions won game two, 4-3, after losing a tight pitchers' duel in game one, 2-1.
Game two saw the teams combine for eight errors and 26 runners left on base. It was one of those eight errors that ended the game. In the Albright ninth, the Lions had two runners on base with walks and two outs after a pair of strikeouts.
Brooke Yerger's grounder to second base couldn't be handled, and the misplay allowed
Mallory Moretti to score from second to give the Lions a 4-3 win.
The teams traded runs in the first inning. The Lions managed to get their run in the bottom half of the inning without the benefit of a hit.
Stephany Courtney,
Stephanie Pomante and
Jessica Rodriguez all walked, and a walk to
Nora Harrison forced in the run to tie the game at 1-1.
Alvernia took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second, but the Lions got single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-2 lead.
Camille Sears reached via an error to score
Kelly Cembrale to make it 2-2 in the fourth, and
Kaitlyn Chell gave the Lions a 3-2 lead with an RBI single to score Rodriguez in the fifth.
The score stayed that way until the seventh. Alvernia got a sacrifice fly to left in its final at-bat to force extra innings. That set up the Lions' walk-off win in the ninth.
Cembrale led the offense with two hits. Pomante and Harrison each had two walks to go with a hit.
The teams also traded runs in the first inning of game one, but the pitching held up to keep it at 1-1 through most of the contest. Albright got its lone run when Pomante doubled home Courtney in the first to tie the game.
Alvernia finally got the go-ahead run on a groundout in the sixth inning.
Riley Gerenda pitched well in the loss, allowing just the two runs on four hits while going the full seven innings.
Pomante went 3-for-4 for the Lions, and
Corinne Garuffe was 2-for-3.
Albright returns to action on Saturday at Lebanon Valley at 1 p.m.
