SALEM, Va. – East Stroudsburg University scored at least six runs in all three games but fell to 9-10 on the season with three non-conference losses on Saturday against West Virginia State, Lake Erie and West Liberty in Salem, Virginia.

The Warriors beat Alderson-Broaddus and fell to Shepherd on Friday to go 1-4 in the tournament and drop below .500 for the first time all season. They hit .333 in five games over the weekend, scoring 33 runs and producing nine doubles, a triple and five home runs among their 51 hits.

Junior 2B Brandi Stettler led the offense on Saturday, going 5-for-7 with five RBI, four runs and her first two home runs of the season. Senior Brittany Racek and junior C Alex Schubert were both 5-for-11 and senior OF Alicea Ashe went 4-for-10 at the plate. Racek, junior Rachel Gieringer and freshman Laura Suits also hit home runs.

Racek was 8-for-16 over the weekend and moved into fifth in school history with 149 career hits. She is fourth with 12 home runs, 48 extra-base hits, 226 total bases and 83 runs in her career at ESU. A three-time All-PSAC East selection, Racek leads the Warriors with a .404 batting average and .493 on-base percentage this season, hitting 23-for-57 with nine walks and just one strikeout.

The Warriors are back in action on Tuesday when they host Philadelphia University in a non-conference doubleheader at 2:30 p.m. in their home opener at Zimbar Field.


WV State 9, ESU 6 (Box Score)

Racek went 3-for-4 and Gieringer and Suits both hit home runs, but WV State scored in each of the first four innings to pull away from the Warriors.

Gieringer hit a two-run homer and senior OF Julia Collins had an RBI single as the Warriors hit around in the first inning. Racek doubled to lead off the second inning and scored on a single by Ashe, and junior 1B Brittany Zanzalari doubled to drive in Ashe and give ESU a 5-1 lead.

WV State responded with four runs on five hits in the bottom of the second and added two runs in both the third and fourth frames to go ahead 9-5. Suits hit her first career home run to lead off the top of the seventh for the Warriors' final run after they left seven runners on base in the previous four innings.

Lake Erie 7, ESU 6 (Box Score)

Lake Erie took advantage of two ESU errors in a four-run sixth inning to take a 7-4 lead, then held off the Warriors in the seventh after a two-out error nearly proved costly for the Storm.

Zanzalari walked to open the seventh and Schubert doubled with two outs to give the Warriors runners at second and third. Both runners scored when the right fielder misplayed a fly ball off the bat of Gieringer, who entered as a pinch hitter. Gieringer advanced to second on the play, but the tying run was stranded when Dawn Ondercin (2.0 IP, 2 hits) got the last of her four strikeouts in relief to seal the win for Lake Erie.

Stettler hit a two-run homer in the second, her first of the day, and Racek hit her 12th career homer in the third to give the Warriors a 3-2 lead. Lake Erie tied the game in the bottom of the inning but Schubert doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Stettler in the fourth. The lead remained 4-3 until the sixth when Lake Erie scored four unearned runs to go ahead for the first time since the first inning.

West Liberty 10, ESU 9 (8 inn.) (Box Score)

Stettler homered with one out in the top of the seventh to tie the game at 9-all and send the game to extra innings, but West Liberty scored its runner from second using the international tiebreaker in the eighth after the Warriors couldn't convert to earn an extra-inning victory.

ESU led 8-7 through three innings before the scoring slowed later in the game. The Warriors scored four runs in both the second and third frames. Freshman 3B Rachel Raabe had an RBI single, Racek hit a sacrifice fly and freshman SS Rebecca Smith hit a two-run single with two outs in the second inning.

In the third, Ashe doubled and scored on a single by Stettler, sophomore Kaitlin Blum doubled, Mingis hit a two-run triple and Racek had an RBI single as the Warriors scored three of their four runs with two outs.

West Liberty scored single runs in the fourth and sixth innings to go ahead before Stettler's game-tying home run for the Warriors in the seventh. In extra innings, the Warriors' go-ahead run was thrown out at home on a squeeze play, and Felicia Hulslander hit the game-winning double with one out in the bottom of the inning for West Liberty.