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Box Score (Game 2)
BOWIE, Md. – Eight different Warriors recorded multi-hit games on the afternoon, as East Stroudsburg University scored a combined 25 runs while completing a doubleheader sweep at Bowie State on Saturday.
ESU (12-12) won the opener by a 9-1 final, and a 12-hit, 13-run second inning highlighted a 16-4 victory in Game 2. The Warriors have won 12 of their last 16 games, while the Bulldogs (3-12) have dropped six straight.
Junior
Kaylee Hazewski had five hits and three stolen bases across the two games. The last of her three steals was the 76th of her career, moving her into a tie with Jen Veronesi (2004-07) for first place in program history. Hazewski entered the weekend ranked fourth in all of Division II in steals per game this season.
Sophomore
Sofia Cecchin, senior
Madison Vicendese and sophomore
Ashley Spencer also had four hits for ESU. Cecchin reached base in all five plate appearances, finishing the day 4 for 4 with a walk and four steals, while Spencer drove in five of the Warriors' nine runs in the opener.
ESU is right back in action on Sunday, traveling to Virginia Union for a doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m.
Game 1: ESU 9, Bowie State 1 (five innings)
The Warrior offense scored in four of their five trips to the plate, including three runs in each of the first two innings. Spencer cleared the bases with a clutch two-out, three-run double in the first, while Vicendese, sophomore
Kaitlyn Caleen and freshman
Mikayla Pourby drove in runs in the second.
After a scoreless third, Spencer plated Caleen and Vicendese on a two-out single in the fourth, and redshirt freshman
Marissa Govan rounded out the scoring on an RBI groundout in the following frame. Spencer's five RBIs were the most by any Warrior in a game this season.
Pourby went all five innings in the circle, improving to 5-2 on the year after giving up one run on five hits. She struck out a pair of batters while lowering her season ERA to 2.07.
Hazewski recorded her second-straight three-hit game, as she went 3 for 4 with two runs scored and a pair of steals. Her third hit of the contest, a single in the fifth, was the 100th of her collegiate career.
Game 2: ESU 16, Bowie State 4 (five innings)
The Warriors trailed 3-0 after the first inning, but they quickly erased that deficit with a memorable top-half of the second. Govan had a pair of two-run doubles in the frame, and sophomore
MacKenzie Lewis scored two more runs on a triple to left field. ESU batted around twice, with Spencer coming to the plate three times in the inning.
Freshman
Caitlyn Murray drove in the final three runs on a two-out double in the fifth. Senior
Angelica Dark picked up her fourth victory in the circle; she fanned four batters over five innings of work.
Govan's four RBIs led the offense, while Lewis and Murray followed with three apiece. Hazewski, Spencer, Vicendese, Cecchin, freshman
Rachel Seiverd and freshman
Lexi Wright also collected two hits each in the victory. Wright finished 2 for 2 with two walks and three runs scored.
Spencer and Vicendese each registered their team-leading ninth multi-hit game of the season.