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ESU Softball

OSCEOLA, FLA. - It’s getting to be a habit. The East Stroudsburg University softball team won the first game and lost the second in a Rebel Spring Games doubleheader Friday for the fifth straight time.

The Warriors downed Erskine, 4-1, in the opener on Tina Morak’s four-hitter, but then lost to Augustana, 3-1. The team, now 5-5, will return north this weekend and travel to Caldwell College Tuesday for a 3 p.m. doubleheader.

Morak allowed only four singles, struck out five batters and walked only one in winning her third game. She also drove in a run during a four-run ESU rally in the second inning. Erika Lee led off the second with a single and raced around to third as Casey Dixon reached on an error. Morak then lofted a sacrifice fly to leftfield for one run. Aishling Stevens, Mary Beth Scotch and Deana Geist followed with singles, all of which drove in runs.

In the second game, Augustana’s Jennifer Hill belted a two-run homer over the right-centerfield fence in the first inning and that was all the support pitcher Amy Klyse needed. Klyse hurled a four-hitter and gave up only one run on singles by Scotch and Geist in the seventh inning.

(first game)

Erskine, S.C. 000 010 0 1-4-4

East Stroudsburg (5-4) 040 000 x 4-7-3

Cathy Chapman and Martha Peake; Tina Moran and Erika Lee, Wendy Witmer (5)

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(second game)

East Stroudsburg (5-5) 000 000-1 1-4-2

Augustana, S.D. 201 000 x 3-6-1

Tina Morak and Erika Lee; Amy Klyse and Nova Butor

HR – A, Jennifer Hill 1st (one on)

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