MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The McDaniel College softball team totaled a season-high 15 hits in a 14-8 win over Cairn, but were held to just five in a shutout loss to Lycoming in game two as the Green Terror concluded the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic on Thursday.
McDaniel (4-8), who finished the Classic with a 3-5 record, have scored at least 10 runs in each of its four wins this season.
Graduate student
Katy Newton and senior
Evie Craig had a hit in both games Thursday with Newton totaling three to extend her hit streak to eight games.
McDaniel 14, Cairn 8
After a scoreless first inning, each team scored at least one in five of the remaining six with the Green Terror plating four in the second to take a lead they would never relinquish.
Sophomore
Jessica Millard got things started when she was hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded, scoring junior
Paytyn Hazelton. Newton and sophomore
Bella Sylvester drove in a run each on a fielder's choice and RBI-single before the fourth run came across on a Highlander error.
All four runs were unearned as Cairn committed two errors.
The Highlanders (1-4) answered with three runs of their own in the bottom of the second before McDaniel added two more in the third on an RBI-triple by junior
Mandy Butz before she scored on the first career hit from junior
Luci Vallor.
The Green Terror led 6-4 when they erupted for five runs in the top of the fourth, including three on RBI doubles by Sylvester and Hazelton. Millard also picked up her second RBI of the game with a single up the middle.
Cairn scored a run in the fourth and two in the fifth to cut its deficit to 11-7, but McDaniel drove in three more runs on consecutive plays in the top of the sixth, each with two outs, before the Highlanders provided the final margin with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh.
Nine players had at least one hit for the Green Terror, led by three each from Sylvester and sophomore
Olivia Dresser. Sylvester also finished with three RBIs while Dresser scored four runs. Newton went 2-for-5 with with three RBIs and three runs scored.
Freshman
Sami Ness made her first career start inside the circle and picked up her first win, striking out over 4.0 innings.
Lycoming 6, McDaniel 0
After posting a season-high 15 hits, the Green Terror were limited to just five against the Warriors as Payton Whary was efficient, retiring 21 of the 27 batters she faced in going the distance, surrendering just one walk and striking out two.
Whary was matched early by senior
Parker Murphy as the game was scoreless through two before Lycoming scored on an RBI-single in the third and added two more runs in the fourth.
Murphy continued to battle, allowing an unearned run in the top of the sixth before the Warriors capped the scoring with an RBI-double in the top of the seventh.
Despite allowing 12 hits, Murphy did not walk anyone and surrendered just four earned runs in her fourth start and third complete game this season. She also helped her caused with a single to left in the bottom of the third.
Junior
Mandy Butz led McDaniel offensively with two of the team's five hits going 2-for-3.
The Green Terror will now head back home from Myrtle Beach and return to action next Wednesday, March 22 when they travel back down South to take on Eastern Mennonite in a rescheduled contest from Saturday, March 11. First pitch from Harrisonburg, Va. is at 2 p.m.
