Bucs and Brits Play to 4-2 Final
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Mass. Maritime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
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Albion | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 3 | 2 |
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Sunday morning, the Buccaneers took on the Albion Britons out of Michigan in the first of two games of the day. The Brits, playing their first game of the season, got the better of the Bucs by a close 4-2 final score.
The Basics
Final: Britons 4, Buccaneers 2
Records: Albion (1-0)
Maritime (0-3)
In the Circle
Albion: Ashley Pion (W, 1-0): 7 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 14 K
Maritime: Erin Donlan (L, 0-1): 2.1 IP, 1 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 7 BB, 1 K
Jennamarie Klemp: 3.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K
At The Plate
Maritime
- Erin Donlan led the way for the Bucs offensively going 2-for-3 at the dish with a double.
- Kelsey Booker, Maia Ostromecki, Grace Biondo, and Hannah Burton all recorded a hit.
- Ostromecki was credited with the only RBI in the game for Maritime and scored one of the two runs.
- As a pinch runner, Taylor Lane stole a base and scored a run.
Albion
- The Britons recorded just three hits of Bucs pitching, one each from Jacqueline Jozefczyk, Megan Maiuri, and Parker Douglass.
- Jozefczyk, Lauren Creon, Courtney Ellis and Rachel Horecki each had an RBI.
- Hannah Petty, Grace Martin, Chloe Miller, and Creon all scored a run.
- Kenadie Baareman recorded a stolen base.
How It Happened
The game remained scoreless for the first 2.1 innings with Donlan keeping a no-hitter going through 2.1. In the bottom of the third, Creon walked with the bases loaded to bring in the first run. That was followed by an Ellis walk to bring in the second, then a Horecki free pass to make it 3-0 Brits. Jozefczyk then singled to left center to bring in the fourth run of the inning.
The would be all the runs the Britons were able to muster in the game. The Bucs, needed a comeback, were able to pick up a run in the fourth when Ostromecki reached on an error allowing Lane to score. Then, in the seventh, Biondo singled to right center which brought in Ostromecki to score on another Albion error.
The Bucs were unable to bring in any other runs in the seventh and fell to the Brits, 4-2.
