Tartans Sweep Midweek Doubleheader

Tartans Sweep Midweek Doubleheader

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The Carnegie Mellon University softball team defeated La Roche University on their home turf in a doubleheader on Wednesday. Both games finished in five innings with the Tartans winning game one by a 14-3 score and finished the second game with a 16-1 victory to move to 17-12 for the season. The Redhawks fell to 9-21.

Inside the Box Score of Game 1

  • After a quiet first inning, the Tartans scored seven runs off six hits with one error.
  • Freshman Sophia Doherty and junior Maya Bala each had RBI singles while junior Maddy Bealland freshman Madison Heimann had two-run singles.
  • The Tartans had two hits in the third inning but left both runners on base.
  • Heimann hit in freshman Riya Sharda who started the inning with a single to center field for an 8-0 lead and later scored on a double by Doherty to lead 9-0 in the fourth.
  • Senior pitcher Haley Pucci struck out the side in the fourth inning and the Tartans added five runs in the fifth with three hits and two La Roche errors.
  • Beall had another two-run single and Heimann tripled to left center to plate Beall before scoring on a wild pitch.
  • La Roche scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth with two hits to break up the shutout for Pucci who finished with a career-tying eight strikeouts and her first win of the season.

Inside the Box Score of Game 2

  • Freshman Mari Jarmoszka earned her first win after allowing four hits and one run in four innings of work. Sophomore Gianna Adams pitched the fourth inning before Jarmoszka returned in the fifth.
  • The Tartans opened the game with four straight hits, scoring three runs off an RBI single by junior Lindsay Murai and two runs off a single by Heimann. They closed the inning with 10 runs off nine hits with Murai and Heimann each collecting the same amount of RBIs again.
  • The Redhawks scored their only run in the bottom of the second off two hits.
  • The Tartans scored four more runs off five hits in the top of the fourth with senior Kira Monji and Beall each knocking in two runs.
  • Freshman Bella Reuss hit a sacrifice fly and Monji recorded another RBI single for the final runs of the game in the top of the fifth inning.