Raiders Cap Doubleheader with Extra-Inning Victory
BALTIMORE – Colgate used an eighth-inning rally to beat UMBC 5-2 and salvage a doubleheader split after falling to Wisconsin 5-3 in Saturday's opener at the Diamond at UMBC.
Adrienne Nardone and Kiley Shelton tallied three hits and three RBIs apiece to lead the Raiders in the doubleheader. Rachel Carney and Shelton scored two runs each. Starting pitchers Bailey Misken and Maya Servedio combined to pitch 14 innings with zero walks on the day.
"It was great to bounce back after a rally at the end of Game 1," head coach Marissa Lamison-Myers said. "Maya put together eight great innings for us and continued to keep giving our offense chances. Hopefully we can continue the momentum tomorrow."
Game 1 | Wisconsin 5, Colgate 3
Colgate's seventh-inning charge fell short in the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader. Nardone yanked a two-out, two-run single through the left side to trim the deficit to 5-3 which proved to be the final after Wisconsin's pitcher induced a game-ending groundout.
Misken shouldered the loss in the circle, scattering 10 hits and five runs (three earned) with six strikeouts against no walks in six innings of work.
Wisconsin scored a run in each of the first two innings to build an early 2-0 lead. Jillian Herbst scored Colgate's first run of the day on a single down the left field line by Nardone in the top of the third but the Badgers tacked on two more runs in the fourth to establish a 4-1 advantage.
After Wisconsin padded its lead with a run in the bottom of the sixth, Colgate sent six batters to the plate in the two-run seventh. Alexis Romero, Amanda DeSantis, and Shelton worked walks before Nardone's two-RBI single but the Raider rally fell just short 5-3.
Game 2 | Colgate 5, UMBC 2 (8)
After UMBC tied the game 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh, Colgate immediately countered with three runs in the top of the eighth. Shelton and Kara Fusco belted RBI singles followed by a sacrifice fly from Quinn Livesay to give the Raiders a 5-2 edge in extra innings.
Servedio slammed the door with a scoreless home half of the eighth to come away with a 5-2 victory in the nightcap. Servedio tossed all eight innings and picked up her fourth win of the season allowing nine hits and two earned runs with five strikeouts and no walks.
Shelton had the big swing – a two-run blast to straightaway center in the top of the first. That provided an early lead for the Raiders, which remained at 2-1 through six innings. UMBC's only run to that point was a solo shot by Ashley Della Guardia in the bottom of the sixth.
After a strikeout started the home half of the seventh, UMBC used back-to-back doubles from Jerzie Nutile and Macy Granzow to tie the game at 2-2. Servedio stayed poised to escape the jam without further damage to set the stage for Colgate's eighth-inning rally.
UP NEXT
Colgate (9-15) wraps up its spring break trip in Baltimore with a single game against Niagara at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.
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