Feb. 24, 2007

Box Score

WINSTON-SALEM, NC - A late-inning three-run rally by the Lady Rams fell just short as the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore Lady Hawks earned a 5-4 victory over Winston-Salem State University at South Park Field on Saturday afternoon in the first game of a non- conference softball doubleheader. UMES went on to fall 10-0 in the second game.

The Lady Rams opened the afternoon's scoring as WSSU took an early 1-0 lead on a wild pitch in the bottom of the third inning.

The score would change the very next inning as UMES belted four hits and scored five runs en route to a 5-1 lead.

UMES saw success in the top of the fourth inning as an Ashley Boswell wild pitch, an RBI single by second baseman Shadawn Page, and a two-out, two-RBI double scored the only runs of the game for the Lady Hawks.

Following the double, WSSU starting pitcher Ashley Boswell would leave the game (four hits, five runs, three earned) in favor of Amber Shore.

Shore immediately retired the side with a strike out, throw-out combination that saw her pick up an assist.

The bottom of the fifth inning saw WSSU finally get to UMES starter Kristen Greenwood as Devyn Gillette broke up Greenwood's bid for a no-hitter with a single to center field.

A L'Tisha Bell single, coupled with a pair of wild pitches by Greenwood, netted WSSU its second run of the game before Whitney Hall's sacrifice RBI cut the UMES lead to a pair of runs.

The Rams rally would end following a UMES fielding error at first base that pushed the Lady Rams to within one run at 5-4 on a strikeout.

Shore held UMES scoreless in the seventh inning, but WSSU could not earn base-runners in the Lady Rams' bid to tie the score at 5-5 as the Lady Hawks earned the narrow 5-4 victory.

In game two, the Lady Rams jumped on the board early in the game as WSSU tallied three runs, all unearned, in the first inning of play as WSSU opened up a 3-0 lead that would never be in jeopardy.

Winston-Salem State continued their onslaught in the second inning as the Lady Rams tallied five runs (all earned) in the second inning as they increased their cushion to 8-0. UMES starter Mishayla Truttman would go only 1 and 2/3 innings and gave up eight runs before being replaced by Kristen Greenwood in the second inning.

Behind the solid pitching of starter Amber Shore, the Lady Rams' would hold UMES to only two hits. Shore scattered the pair of hits over four solid innings of work as she struck out seven UMES batters to improve to 2-4 on the season.

Ashley Boswell retired the Lady Hawk side in the top of the fifth inning as she struck out one batter, grounded out a batter, and was the beneficiary of an Elyon Taylor pick off throw as she earned her first save of the season.

The win improves WSSU to 2-7 overall while UMES falls to 1-1 on the season with the loss.

The previous release appears courtesy of the Winston-Salem State sports information office