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ESU Softball in Rebel Spring Games

OSCEOLA, Fla. – East Stroudsburg University’s softball team scored five runs in the last two innings to edge Stony Brook, 5-4, in the second game of a final Rebel Spring Games doubleheader Friday.

The Warriors dropped the opener to UMass-Lowell, 4-3. They are now 5-5 and will return to action Tuesday in a doubleheader at Holy Family.

Held hitless against Stony Brook for the first five innings, ESU exploded for three runs in the sixth inning on Erika Lee’s two-run double and Casey Dixon’s run-producing double to take a 3-0 lead. The Seawalks’ Tricia Liparelli hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning to make a 3-2 game.

In the seventh, the Warriors added two more runs as ‘Nifer Shaw singled and Aishling Stevens doubled and both runners came home on passed balls.

ESU pitcher Tina Morak held on in the bottom the seventh, allowing two runs but then getting the last two outs on a strikeout and a flyout to end the game. She raised her record to 3-2.

In the first game, UMass-Lowell won with an unearned run in the eighth inning. ESU scored its three runs in the fourth inning, all unearned, with the help of four errors.

(1st Game)

UMass-Lowell 030 000 01 4-5-4

East Stroudsburg 000 300 00 3-3-4

Rachel Ronnquist and Rebecca Regula; Monica Soboleski and Erika Lee

2B – UML, Erica Jackson

Records: UMass-Lowell 3-5, ESU 4-5

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(2nd Game)

East Stroudsburg 000 003 2 5-4-1

Stony Brook 000 002 2 4-7-1

Tina Morak and Erika Lee; Stephanie Poetzsch and Christie McMurray

2B – ES, Casey Dixon, Lee, Aishling Stevens; SB, Poetzsch 2

HR – SB, Tricia Lipareli 6th (one on)

Records: ESU 5-5, Stony Brook 7-3

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