YSU softball splits doubleheader

Staff report

Akron

Youngstown State used an eight-run sixth inning to take a 11-7 victory over Akron in the first game of a doubleheader at Lee Jackson Field.

Big hits helped to turn a 5-3 deficit into an 11-5 lead and banged out 14 hits to knock off Akron in game one. The Penguins dropped the second game, 6-0.

Youngstown State improves to 8-20 overall while Akron moves to 12-14 overall.

For the second-time this season, sophomore Haley Thomas tied the YSU single-game hits record with four, including a two-run triple in the Penguins’ eight-run sixth. Sophomore Jordan Ingalls and freshman Vicky Rumph each tallied three hits, while sophomore Kristin Philen added two singles.

Trailing 5-3 in the top of the sixth, the Penguins sent 13 batters to the plate en route to their eight runs. With one out and the bases loaded, freshman pinch-hitter Caroline Krombach knotted the game at 5-5 with a single to right-center field.

Thomas then drilled a line drive down the left-field line.

After two-out Akron error that scored Thomas, Grove’s fielder’s choice and another Zips’ error scored Klonowski and Ingalls two-run double plated Grove and Rumph, who singled, with the Penguins’ 10th and 11th runs.

Junior Danielle Chase picked up her second win of the season scattering nine hits and striking out four in a complete-game performance.

The Penguins face Loyola in a three-game series beginning Saturday, April 10, at 2 p.m.