Softball Sweeps Fordham with Two Wins Sunday

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WASHINGTON - The George Washington University softball team won both games of Sunday's doubleheader, completing a three-game sweep at home against Fordham. GW won game one of the doubleheader 7-6 in extra innings, before completing the sweep in game two with a 3-0 victory. The Revolutionaries improved to 27-14 overall, including a dominant 16-2 at home and 12-5 in the A-10.

GW 7, Fordham 6 (9 Innings)
It took an extra pair of innings to decide a winner in game one, and after duking it out with the Rams in a nine-inning slugfest, Madi Mays delivered a clutch walk-off double to secure the win.

Game two of the series promised to be tight as the Rams were looking to avenge their series-opening loss. As in Saturday's game one, both teams broke the ice early with runs in the first inning, this time scoring two apiece to open up the game. Fordham scored two on an Eva Koratsis single, while GW scored two on an Emi Todoroki double.

The score held until the third, when Fordham's Sydney Wells launched her second home run of the series to make it 3-2 Fordham. Not long after in the fourth, GW's top home run hitter - Ashley Corpuz - delivered her second home run of the series (and 15th of the season), a three-run blast to give GW a 5-3 edge.

Fordham captured the momentum right back from GW, plating three runs to assume a 6-5 lead in the fifth. It didn't take long however for GW to tie, scoring immediately on a Kaylee Layfield bases-loaded walk in the fifth.

Scoring opportunities were plentiful for the Revolutionaries in the sixth, seventh and eighth, but Fordham did well to extend the game, stranding two GW runners in each of those innings. GW's. Cece Smith and Fordham's Elizabeth Gaisior were duking it out late in the game and into extras, each holding their opponent scoreless through the sixth, seventh and eighth.

GW's ninth inning started with an Corpuz walk, and two batters later, GW clinched the series as Mays lifted a ball into right-center, which landed between a pair of Rams outfielders and rolled away for Corpuz to score from first on a chaotic walk-off.

Daniella Lew had a career game, going 4-4 after being inserted into right field early on. Heffley reached a milestone with her 200th career hit between GW and Harvard, and Smith reached a milestone with her 200th career strikeout.

GW outhit Fordham, 15-10. Smith earned the win, while Gaisior took the loss.

GW 3, Fordham 0
Looking for a statement sweep with a win in the finale, the Revolutionaries got an excellent complete-game, two-hit shutout from star pitcher Anna Reed, silencing the visitors for a 3-0 win.

GW plated two early runs to help Reed settle in, scoring twice in the first to give the graduate pitcher a lead to pitch with for six innings. Todoroki drove in the first on a sac fly, before Mays singled to drive in GW's second run.

Neither side was able to get on the board for a long stretch after the first, as two of the A-10's best - Reed and Fordham's Holly Beeman - were pitching effectively. Both finished the game with zero earned runs allowed after the first, as GW scored its third run on a two-out error in the fifth.

Reed passed a pair of milestones with her 13th win of the season, throwing her 300th career strikeout and 100th strikeout since transferring to GW. Mays, who came to GW with Reed from Harvard, collected her 100th career RBI on her single in the first.

Despite the sweep, GW ended the weekend in second in the A-10 at 12-5 (.706), one spot behind Dayton with a slightly higher win percentage at 11-4 (.714).

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GW has the middle of the week off, before traveling to Saint Joseph's for a Friday-Saturday A-10 road series this coming weekend.

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Allison Heffley

Kaylee Layfield

Madi Mays

Paige Hayward

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Ashley Corpuz

Kaylee Layfield

Daniella Lew

Madi Mays

Anna Reed

Cece Smith

Emi Todoroki

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