CLERMONT, Fla. -- Fredonia used a late rally to overtake Emmanuel and earn a split Thursday at The Spring Games.
Down 3-1 at the start of the inning, the Blue Devils scored seven runs -- all after there were two outs -- en route an 8-5 win. They fell to Nebraska Wesleyan earlier in the day.
A lead-off double by
Katelyn Dennis (Webster, N.Y.) preceded a two-out RBI single by
Lauren Pixley (Hamburg, N.Y.). Consecutive walks loaded the bases before
Khee Nance (Dunkirk, N.Y.) grounded to deep short.
Madison Cooley (Geneva, N.Y.) beat the throw to second and the tying run scored.
Nikki Lent (Yaphank, N.Y.) then laced a single to short left and when the ball eluded the left-fielder, three more runs scored.
Cassie Herman (Maybrook, N.Y.) singled to score Lent and Dennis's second double in the inning scored Herman.
Katie Yudin (Liverpool, N.Y..) ran into control trouble in the top of the seventh, the only blip on an otherwise solid effort. She improved to 2-1 while fellow freshman
Sam Seegar (North Tonawanda, N.Y.) got the final out with a strikeout to earn her first collegiate save.
Cooley, also a freshman, had a triple and a double.
The Blue Devils dropped Thursday's opener, the first game of their Florida trip, 8-2 to Nebraska Wesleyan. Up 1-0 in the first inning on a hit batter, a single by Herman, and an RBI fielder's choice by Dennis, the Blue Devils saw Nebraska Wesleyan come up with two runs in the first and four more off losing pitcher
Emily Shellenberger (Philadelphia, Pa.). The four runs in the second were unearned.
Herman led the offense with two singles while Pixley had an RBI single.
The Blue Devils' 12-game Florida trip resumes with two more games Friday -- 1 p.m. vs. Muhlenberg and 3:30 p.m. vs. Penn State New Kensington. Both games will be played at Legends Way fields at the National Training Center.
