George Washington University
6-6
QUINNIPIAC
3-5
Softball Takes Another Run-Rule Win on Sunday
3/5/2017 12:00:00 AM | Softball
WASHINGTON - The George Washington softball team notched its fourth-consecutive run-rule victory on Sunday in a 10-2 rout of visiting Quinnipiac on the final day of the home-opening Colonial Classic at the GW Softball Field on the Mount Vernon Campus.
The Colonials (6-6) powered past Quinnipiac with 11 hits before GW's second game of the day was called due to darkness before reaching the minimum innings needed for an official game.
Quinnipiac struck first, using a game-opening solo home run to take a 1-0 lead, but the Colonials quickly gained the advantage with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
Senior Megan Linn led off the first with a single and advanced to third with the help of an error on the next play. Classmate Paige Kovalsky then singled through the left side to drive in one and another scored on a ground out by freshman Elena Shelepak to put GW ahead 2-1.
The Buff and Blue increased their lead in the third when Shelepak and fellow rookie Priscilla Martinez blasted back-to-back homers - the first of their careers - to plate three runs. GW tacked on one more with the help of an error to move ahead 6-1.
The Bobcats got one run across in the fourth but would score no more.
GW continued its scoring ways in the fourth after Kovalsky doubled and freshman Jenna Cone drove her in with a single.
The Colonials tallied a run for the third-consecutive inning when senior Megan Linn sent a solo shot beyond the center field fence - her first of the season.
A walk and an error in GW's half of the sixth set the stage for Martinez, who doubled for two RBIs to give the Colonials a 10-2 victory in six innings by virtue of the run-rule.
For the second-straight day, junior Sarah Costlow (4-2, 2.68 ERA) earned the complete-game triumph, allowing just three hits and one free pass in a stellar six innings of work.
Both Martinez and Shelepak led the squad with three RBIs, while the former joined Kovalsky (3-for-4, 2 R, RBI) and Linn (2-for-3, 2 R, RBI) with multi-hit games.
The Colonials return to action next weekend in California for the three-day UC Santa Barbara Gaucho Classic.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Costlow, Sarah (4-2)
L: Long, Abbey (1-2)
Batting:
HR: Magana, Miranda 1
RBI: Magana, Miranda 1 ; Czaja, Emily 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Magana, Miranda 1 ; Cordeiro, Keala 1
Batting:
2B: Kovalsky, Paige 1 ; Martinez, Priscilla 1
HR: Linn, Megan 1 ; Shelepak, Elena 1 ; Martinez, Priscilla 1
RBI: Linn, Megan 1 ; Kovalsky, Paige 1 ; Cone, Jenna 1 ; Shelepak, Elena 3 ; Martinez, Priscilla 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Linn, Megan 2 ; Anderson, Alana 1 ; Kovalsky, Paige 2 ; Cone, Jenna 1 ; Shelepak, Elena 2 ; Martinez, Priscilla 1 ; Rinehart, Morgan 1
SB: Linn, Megan 1 ; Kovalsky, Paige 1 ; Rinehart, Morgan 1 ; Linquist, Jessica 1
