SALEM, Va. – Seventh-seeded Shenandoah University saw its 2022 ODAC Softball Tournament run end Friday afternoon with a 7-1 loss to No. 6 Ferrum.
Ferrum (22-16) eliminated the Hornets (14-24) from the tournament by breaking open a one-run game with a four-run fourth.
IN BRIEF
Three of the four runs the Panthers scored were unearned as SU committed a pair of errors in the frame.
Shenandoah scored its lone run in the third.
Danielle McNeill led off with a walk, was sacrificed to second and scored on
Tiffany Bower's single up the middle.
Megan Scalley (6-12) took the loss. She allowed six runs (three earned) on six hits and six walks in 4.0 innings. She also struck out two.
Taylor Smith tossed the next inning and 1/3 with
Hannah Maltos finishing up. Smith gave up one run on three hits and one walk.
SU had six hits in the contest with Bower and
Taylor Glover both getting two each. In addition to RBI single in the third, she had a single to left in the seventh. Glover singled up the middle in the second and to right center in the sixth.
McNeill had a leadoff single in the first and
Rachael Blumenschine had a single to right center in the sixth.
UP NEXT
This concludes the Hornets season. The 2023 schedule will be announced this summer.
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