Box Scores
Limestone - L 9-8
Winona State - L 10-1 (5 inn.)

CLERMONT, Fla. – East Stroudsburg University overcame an 8-1 deficit before Limestone walked off with a 9-8 win, and No. 11 Winona State posted a 10-1 win in five innings as the Warriors dropped both of their softball games on Monday in Florida.

ESU (5-4) won its first two games on Sunday at the National Training Center in Clermont, beating St. Joseph's (Ind.) 4-1 and Southern New Hampshire 8-6 on a pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam by junior Alex Schubert.

The tables were turned on Monday as Limestone saw the Warriors come all the way back from an 8-1 hole through four innings, but put together a walk, a single and a double – all with two outs – in the bottom of the seventh after ESU tied the game with two runs in the top of the inning.

Senior OF Alicea Ashe and junior SS Pam Sellers both homered in a four-run sixth to put the Warriors in position to make it a game. Ashe opened the inning with her 14th career home run, tied for second in school history, and after Schubert doubled, Sellers hit her first career homer to make it 8-5. Freshman 2B Rebecca Smith cut the deficit to two runs as she singled with one out, stole second with two outs, moved to third on a single by senior Brittany Racek and scored when the catcher threw the ball away down the left field line on a pickoff attempt.

The Warriors stranded a runner on third in Limestone's half of the sixth, and junior 3B Rachel Gieringer doubled to start the top of the seventh. After a pitching change, Ashe singled, stole second to put two runners in scoring position, and Gieringer scored and Ashe moved to third on a wild pitch. Sellers came through with an RBI single to tie the game before the Saints got out of the inning.

Freshman Laura Suits, who threw 5.2 innings (6 runs, 5 earned, 13 hits, 3 strikeouts, 2 walks) in relief of freshman starter Amanda McKay, got the first two outs of the bottom of the seventh but Nichole Owczar doubled home the winning run after Alex Aburto walked and Kayla Kelley singled.

Racek, Gieringer, Ashe, Sellers and senior OF Jamie Mingis all had two hits and Sellers was 2-for-4 with three RBI. Kelly led Limestone, going 4-for-5 with two home runs, four RBI and three runs, as the two teams combined for 27 hits and five homers.

In the second game, Racek had two of the Warriors' four hits and accounted for the only run with a solo homer in the third inning. Racek's 11th career home run moves her into a tie for fourth in school history with Shannon Dietrich and Ashley Miller. Ashe is tied for second with Amanda Feist with 14, four behind the school record of 18 held by Jen Veronesi.

Winona State (Minn.), ranked No. 11 in the NFCA poll, improved to 9-0 which includes a 3-1 win over No. 8 Bloomsburg on Saturday. The Warriors had 14 hits and Mollie Bjelland and Molly Link both hit two-run home runs. Michelle Lund went all 5.0 innings in the circle.

Racek led ESU at the plate for the day, going 4-for-7, and Sellers (3-for-6) and Gieringer (3-for-7) also had hits in both games. Racek is 7-for-15 and has hit safely in all four games to open this week's 10-game series in the Sunshine State.

ESU faces the College of St. Rose (N.Y.) and Alderson-Broaddus on Tuesday and is away from action on Wednesday.