George Washington University
15-13
UMBC
13-12
GW Softball Downs UMBC in Mid-Week Matinee
3/31/2015 12:00:00 AM | Softball
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March 31, 2015
BALTIMORE - Senior Victoria Valos smashed her team-best fifth home run of the year as the George Washington softball squad defeated UMBC, 6-3, on Tuesday afternoon at UMBC Softball Stadium. The Colonials will host Cornell for '90s Day on Wednesday at the GW Softball Field on the Mount Vernon Campus.
The Buff and Blue (15-13) scored first and took a lead it would never surrender as sophomore Paige Kovalsky earned a complete game win over the Retrievers (13-12).
The Colonials first got on the board in the third, as sophomore Megan Linn led off the inning with a single and moved into scoring position on a ground ball by classmate Bradleigh Breland. Valos batted in her first of three runs of the day with a single to left field to give GW a 1-0 lead.
UMBC yielded two more in the fourth as a bunt single, a walk and an error loaded the bases for the Colonials with two outs. Walks to Breland and Valos plated a pair before the inning ended to put the Buff and Blue up by three.
An RBI double by senior Samantha Dos Santos followed by a run-scoring single from sophomore Monica Macchiarulo added two more in the fifth before UMBC answered back with a trio of runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. A two-out double preceded a home run to plate two before a single and a pair of walks loaded the bases for an RBI single by the Retrievers' Carly Lesko to put the score at 5-3 after five.
UMBC would not score again, and Valos smacked the final blow in the sixth with her fifth home run of the season - a solo shot to left-center to give the Colonials their final margin of 6-3.
Kovalsky improves to 4-0 on the season with the victory, while she helped her own cause with a 2-for-4 performance at the plate and a run scored.
In addition to Kovalsky, Linn (2-for-4, 1 R), Valos (2-for-2, 3 RBI, 1 R, 2 BB) and Dos Santos (2-for-4, 1 RBI, 2 R) notched multi-hit games as seven Colonials combined for GW's 11 hits on the day.
The Colonials return to action on Wednesday when they host Cornell (7-10) for '90s Day in a single game beginning at 3 p.m. Music from the '90s will be played throughout the contest at the GW Softball Field.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Kovalsky, Paige (4-0)
L: Clark, Miranda (2-1)
Batting:
2B: Gray, Carlee 1 ; Santos, Samantha 1
HR: Valos, Victoria 1
RBI: Breland, Bradleigh 1 ; Valos, Victoria 3 ; Santos, Samantha 1 ; Macchiarulo, Monica 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Linn, Megan 1 ; Valos, Victoria 1 ; Kovalsky, Paige 1 ; Santos, Samantha 2 ; Anderson, Alana 1
SB: Linn, Megan 1 ; Santos, Samantha 1
CS: Valos, Victoria 1 ; Kovalsky, Paige 1
HBP: Matetic, Morgan 1
Batting:
2B: O'Neill, Danielle 1
HR: Hall, Taylor 1
RBI: Hall, Taylor 2 ; Lesko, Carly 1
Base Running:
RUNS: O'Neill, Danielle 1 ; Hall, Taylor 1 ; Jackson, Kaelin 1
