KING'S SOFTBALL ELIMINATED BY DEL-VAL FROM FREEDOM TOURNEY
EDWARDSVILLE -- Brittany Stockert went three-for-three with two solo home runs as Delaware Valley battled back from a two-run deficit to beat King's College 6-4 in the second round of the elimination bracket of the Freedom Conference Tournament on Saturday afternoon at Ralston Complex. It was the second game in two days against King's that Delaware Valley battled back from behind.
With the win, Delaware Valley advances to face DeSales University in the championship game. King's sees its season end at 20-13. The Lady Monarchs fell short of defending their 2007 title and had its hopes of eight conference championships in nine years dashed. It is also the first time since the Freedom Conference Tournament began in 2001 that King's has not played in the tournament championship game.
In the bottom of the first inning, Bethany Pavlik got Delaware Valley on the board with a solo home run over the left field fence as the Aggies took a 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the second, Delaware Valley would strike again, this time Brittany Stockert hit a solo home run over the left field fence extending the lead to 2-0.
In the top of the third inning, after back to back singles by Kelsey Shreaves and Annie Drimones, Abby Knoblauch singled down the first base line scoring Shreaves to cut the lead to 2-1. Leann Harvey grounded out to the shortstop picking up an RBI as Drimones scored ting the game at 2-2. Meghan Galvin then would give King's the lead with a two run home run to straight away center field making the score 4-2.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, after a Kelly Andrews single to center field, Nicole Dorney tied the game at 4-4 with a two run home run over the left field fence. Stockert would then give Delaware Valley the lead at 5-4 with her second solo home run of the game.
In the bottom of the fifth, Delaware Valley would add some insurance to their lead. After two two-out walks, Stockert continued with her hot bat singling to center scoring one run extending the Aggies lead to 6-4.
King's attempted a two-out rally in the top of the seventh inning when Galvin singled to left field. Lindsey Hoerner then hit into a fielder's choice as the shortstop fielded the ball and tagged second to end the game.
King was led by Galvin who was 2-for-4 with a two-run home run. Shreaves was also 2-for-3 with one run scored.
Jennifer Bummer picked up the win in the circle for Delaware Valley going three and two thirds innings not allowing a run giving up two hits with two strikeouts. Offensively, the Aggies had nine total hits.
