8
Winner Shenandoah Hornets SUS 28-17
6
Lynchburg Hornets LCSOFT 32-11
Winner
Shenandoah Hornets SUS
28-17
8
Final
6
Lynchburg Hornets LCSOFT
32-11
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Shenandoah Hornets SUS 3 0 2 0 2 0 1 8 10 4
Lynchburg Hornets LCSOFT 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 6 9 6

W: Tripp, Megan (10-5) L: Amber Ingram (3-4) S: Litwin, Amanda (1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Scott Musa, Assistant AD

Softball to Play for Championship

SALEM, Va. – The Shenandoah University softball team will play for the 2013 ODAC Championship after downing No. 19 Lynchburg College 8-6 in the loser's bracket final Saturday afternoon.

Shenandoah (28-17) will face top-seeded Virginia Wesleyan in a 1:00 championship game Sunday. SU will need to beat the top-seeded Marlins twice to win the title and earn the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.

SU is scheduled to be the home team in the first game Sunday.

With the weather forecast projecting a 70 percent chance of rain for all day Sunday in the Salem area, a decision on the status of the games will be made Sunday morning.

Should the weather prevent the game(s) from being played on Sunday, the league has a plan to make the games up Monday in Salem or Tuesday in a neutral site location (most likely Randolph-Macon).

A decision on Sunday's games will be communicated through www.suhornets.com, www.odacathletics.com and the SU Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/SUHornets.

Playing as the visitor Friday night, Shenandoah scored three runs in the first to take a lead it would not relinquish against Lynchburg (32-11).

Coach Marlena Kotynski's club extended its advantage to five runs with two runs each in the third and fifth innings, but found itself in a ballgame as LC scored four times in the bottom of the sixth to cut the deficit to just one, 7-6.

Kotynski, who used four of her five pitchers in the game, turned to Amanda Litwin to put out the fire and the senior came through, working a perfect final 1 2/3 innings to post her first save of the season.

Litwin also had one strikeout.

Freshman Megan Tripp (10-6) was the winner, scattering one hit in working the fourth and fifth innings.

Stephanie Cameron started and had five strikeouts in three innings pitched.

SU banged out 10 hits in the victory with senior Lauren McCabe leading the club with a 4 for 4 evening that included four RBI.

She had RBI singles in the first, third and seventh with the single to left center in the third driving in a pair of runs.

Erica Kondzielawa had a two-run double in the fifth.

Jessi Hall and Melanie Tenney had two hits each for Lynchburg.

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