Lightning Opens CACC Play with Split Against Bridgeport

North East Graduate Alesia Doctor earns first Collegiate Shut Out.

By Derek Crudele Goldey Beacom College

WILMINGTON - Goldey-Beacom put together three runs in the sixth inning for a 3-0 victory in game one against Bridgeport before it was handed a 7-0 loss in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play at the Jackson Complex in Wilmington, DE.

The Lightning (16-6, 1-1 CACC) began things in the sixth with freshman Chasedy Johnson (Egg Harbor City, NJ) getting a leadoff single and stealing second before being sacrificed to third by senior Carly Setting (Newark, DE). Junior Hannah Davis (Bethel, DE) then dropped a bunt single to plate Johnson for a 1-0 lead and took second on a throwing error.

Davis stole third and was erased on a fielder's choice from sophomore Alex Lowry (Wenonah, NJ), but GBC was not done. Senior Chrissy

Jordan (Pasadena, MD) lined an RBI double to score Lowry and freshman Autumn Simpson (Elkton, MD) followed with her own run-scoring double for a 3-0 margin.

It was enough for Rising Sun, MD freshman Alesia Doctor (4-4), who worked her way out of three bases-loaded jams that led to Bridgeport leaving 13 runners on base. She struck out three over seven innings for her first collegiate shutout.

Freshman Morgan Scott (Elwood, IN) had two hits and now has a hit in 12 of her last 14 contests.

Mya Jones, Taylor Yates and Samantha Schiebe each recorded two hits for the Purple Knights.

Schiebe was the story for Bridgeport in game two, retiring the last 14 batters in pitching a twohit shutout. She struck out three and walked just one in a masterful performance.

Jones got the Purple

Knights (8-11, 1-1) on the board in the third with a solo homer. Gabby Simms lined a massive two-run single in the sixth to make it 3-0.

Bridgeport tacked on four more in the seventh, keyed by Simms' tworun single sandwiched between bases-loaded walks to Madison D'Am- ato and Jones. Missy Daigneault began the scoring with a sacrifice fly. Simms closed with two hits in leading the conference debutante to its first

CACC victory. Goldey-Beacom on Sunday visits Bowie State for a noon doubleheader in Bowie, MD.

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