KEYSER, W.Va. — Brittany Kolb went 4-for-4 in the first game and Melanie Carroll homered in the second to lead Potomac State made its season debut with a 9-1, 14-5 sweep of CCAC-South on Wednesday afternoon.
Both games were shortened to five innings by the mercy rule.
In the opener, the Catamounts pounced on South with a six-run first inning. Kolb and Kayla Stickel led off with singles, and Potomac State took advantage of several South errors for the big inning.
Kolb finished 4-for-4 with a triple, three singles and two RBIs for Potomac State. Stickel added a pair of singles.
Aaryka Anglin got the win, allowing only one hit and one run while striking out four in four innings.
In the second game, the Catamounts again used a big first inning to take control. This time, they scored five times in the first, and led 14-2 after a seven-run third.
Carroll had hits in both big innings, belting a three-run homer in the first and a double in the third. Tiffany Biggs and Haylie Harper had two singles and three RBIs. Stickel and Rochelle Wolford doubled and singled and Kolb had two singles in a 14-hit attack.
Wolford, Biggs and Stickel teamed for a five-hitter and seven strikeouts.
Potomac State will host Southern Maryland on Saturday at 1 o’clock.
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PSC sweeps in season opener
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Keyser splits pair, stays alive in state tournament
Keyser got off on the wrong foot in the very first inning of the very first West Virginia State Softball Tournament game in school history, allowing four unearned runs in the first inning to fall behind 5-1, before dropping the first game of the Class AA tournament, 9-4, to top-seeded Ritchie County Wednesday morning at Jackson Park.
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Mountain Ridge captures region title
It might not have been in the fashion Mountain Ridge had become accustomed, but a win over North Carroll in the Maryland Class 1A Region championship game feels the same regardless of the score as the Miners edged the Panthers 5-4 at Kemps Mill Field on Friday to advance to the first state softball tournament in school history.
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Mountain Ridge teams advance
Opportunity didn’t knock often for either Mountain Ridge or Allegany on Wednesday, but when it did, the Miners were the only ones to answer during a 7-0 win over the Campers that gives them the Maryland 1A West Region, West Section championship.
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FSU’s Lovend receives another postseason honor
Frostburg State sophomore Caitlin Lovend was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III All-Atlantic Region First Team.
Lovend joins 14 student-athletes on the All-Atlantic Region team, including four players from the Capital Athletic Conference. -
Cranford leads FH over Southern, 12-2
Freshmen Morgan Cranford performed as a seasoned vet Thursday afternoon when she not only homered but helped lead pitcher Alexis Kimmel through a three-hit complete game outing during Fort Hill’s 12-2 win over Southern in the opening round of the Maryland 1A West Region playoffs.
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Southern comeback stuns No. 5 Keyser in 8
Michaela Bosley’s two-out double in the bottom of the seventh forced an extra inning, and Brooke Spiker’s two-out single in the eighth won it as Southern rallied to defeat Keyser 9-8 in Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference action on Monday.
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Robertson throws no-hitter
Junior right-hander Kelsey Robertson threw a no-hitter in Point Park University’s 5-0 victory over Walsh University in the first game of an American Mideast Conference softball doubleheader on Monday.
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Alco runs to 10-0
ROMNEY, W.Va. — Top-ranked Allegany used five consecutive singles, along with plenty of walks, to score 11 times in the second inning as the Campers remained undefeated by beating Hampshire Monday in three innings.
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PSC rolls
KEYSER, W.Va. — Jessica Shirley hit two home runs in the same inning and it was just a taste of Potomac State’s offensive output as the Catamounts swept both games of a doubleheader by the same 19-0 score Monday during local JUCO softball action in Keyser.
Potomac State had already taken an 8-0 lead in the first inning of the first game before scoring 11 times in the second to account for all of its runs. The Cats followed a similar path in the second game by scoring 10 times in the first inning and adding nine in the second before holding on for another big win. -
Lough helps Petersburg sweep Ty Valley
PETERSBURG, W.Va. — Whitney Lough threw a three-inning no-hitter in the opener before allowing two hits in three innings in the second to lead Petersburg to a sweep of a doubleheader with Tygarts Valley Monday in Petersburg.
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