LEWISBURG, PA (4/1/06) – Senior right-hander
Kate Howard (Wheaton, IL) pitched a four-hit shutout in the opener leading the Colgate softball team to split of its Patriot League doubleheader against Bucknell Saturday at West Field.
Colgate (8-11, PL 1-1) won the opening game 2-0, before dropping a 6-4 decision in the nightcap.
Howard recorded her 14th career shutout while striking out one and walking none as the Raiders began their Patriot League season.
Colgate scored the only two runs of the contest in the first inning. With one out,
Kim Olmstead (Spring Hill, FL) singled to left field, and moved to third on
Whitney Scott’s (Beaverton, OR) double to right field. Both runners came home on freshman
Ashley Rowe’s (Tampa, FL) two-run single.
Freshman centerfielder
Calla Yee (Salinas, CA) was 2-for-3, and finished the day going 5-of-6 while lifting her batting average to .324.
In the second game, Bucknell snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Raiders at West Field. The Bison scored five times in the first inning with the big blast coming on a grand slam home run by Lauren Litts. Michelle Danish single in the fifth run of the inning.
After Bucknell took a 6-0 lead in the second inning, the Raiders started to battle back with a run in the fourth inning. Rowe scored on a bases loaded fielder choice off the bat of sophomore
Jessi Bentovoja (El Dorado Hills, CA).
In the fifth inning Colgate cut the deficit to 6-4 with Rowe driving in the first two runs on a two-run single, and freshman
Vicky Ortengren (Colorado Springs, CO) scoring Rowe with a double to left center field.
The Raiders loaded the bases in the seventh inning but couldn’t push across the tying runs.
Howard (7-5) started for the Raiders and Rowe worked the final six innings. Rowe allowed eight hits, two runs, while striking out two and walking one.
Yee had three hits, while Ortengren was 2-for-2 and Rowe 3-for-3.
Colgate and Bucknell meet again Sunday afternoon in a doubleheader starting at 12 noon.
GAME NOTES – Olmstead had two hits to move into a tie for 18th place on the career list with 98 … Scott extended her hitting streak to nine straight games. She has hit safely in 17 of 19 games this season …Rowe leads the team with eight multiple hit games and five multiple-RBI games.