Stephanie Cameron
8
Winner Virginia Wesleyan VWC 38-6
6
Shenandoah SU 27-18
Winner
Virginia Wesleyan VWC
38-6
8
Final
6
Shenandoah SU
27-18
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 R H E
Virginia Wesleyan VWC 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 16 3
Shenandoah SU 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 16 4

W: Mary Shipp (2-0) L: Cameron, Stephanie (17-6)

Game Recap: Softball | | Scott Musa, Assistant AD

Softball Drops Epic Contest

SALEM, Va. – Epic.

The Shenandoah University women's softball team didn't win in the ODAC Championship game Monday afternoon, but the Hornets certainly didn't lose either.

In the longest ODAC game in history, SU saw its 2013 ODAC Softball Tournament championship hopes end with an 8-6 championship game loss to No. 17 Virginia Wesleyan.

The 19-innings is four innings longer than the Roanoke vs UW-Eau Claire game from 2000.

The Marlins (38-6) scored the winning runs as designated player Lindsey Inzana rocked a 1-0 Stephanie Cameron offering over the left field fence with two outs in the top of the 19th inning.

Inzana's dinger, her eighth of the season, also plated Tori Higginbotham. Higginbotham had beat out an infield single to lead off the inning.

Cameron (17-6) was a hard luck loser, having allowed eight runs on 11 hits in 14 2/3 innings pitched.

Cameron pitched the opening 11 2/3, striking out 10 and facing 50 batters, before coming back to start the 17th.

She finished the game with 12 strikeouts.

Megan Tripp pitched the other 4 1/3, scattering three hits.

Shenandoah (27-18) had an excellent chance to win it in the eighth as Denise Mitchell led off with a double off the fence in left center (missing a home run by two feet) and advancing to third on a Morgan Coble sacrifice bunt.

Unfortunately for the Hornet faithful, Mitchell was stranded on third as Heather Sink and Lauren McCabe both popped out.

SU gave up four runs in the top of the 12th, but matched the Marlins with four runs on five hits in the bottom of the frame.

McCabe had the game-tying RBI with a two-out single to right.

Mitchell had five of the Hornets 16 hits with Sink adding three and Brittany Guepe, McCabe and Kimberly Brady adding two each.

The game lasted 4:45, 530 pitches were thrown and the two teams combined for 137 at-bats.

Mary Shipp, the third pitcher of the day for VWC, got the win. Shipp (2-0) scattered four hits and struck out four in six innings pitched.

Notes: Cameron, Mitchell, McCabe, Sink and Guepe all were named to the All-Tournament team.

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