Brandywine Routs Cairn In Sweep

ASTON, Pa. – The Penn State Brandywine softball team got its bats going on Thursday, posting a pair of lopsided victories over Cairn by scores of 17-0 and 26-1 at Maple Zone.

Brandywine needed just eight hits to score 17 runs in game one as the Lions took advantage of 12 walks from Cairn pitching.

Julia Allman (Broomall, Pa./Marple Newtown), Robyn Gannon (Lansdowne, Pa./Archbishop Prendergast) and Julie Foeldes (Kendall Park, N.J./South Brunswick) all recorded two hits for Brandywine. Allman drove in four runs, while Foeldes knocked in three runs and Gannon scored three times.

Olivia Encarnacion (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro) tossed a five-inning shutout in the circle. She allowed just three hits and struck out six.

Gannon doubled in Arianna Segich (Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City) and then scored on a wild pitch to get the scoring started in the first inning.

Brandywine added eight more runs in the second, including a two-RBI double from Allman and Grace DeRosa's (Glenside, Pa./Cheltenham) run-scoring single.

Seven more runs scored scored in the third as Foeldes and Allman both produced two-run hits.

Ashlee Stritzinger (Wilmington, Del./Concord), Katy Steffen (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown West) and Maddie Malfara (Ardsley, Pa./Abington) all went 3-for-4 at the plate in game two. Stritzinger recorded seven RBI, while Malfara and Steph Harvey (Berlin, N.J./Eastern Regional) both scored four times. Jen Patterson (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) knocked in four runs and Allman added three more RBI.

Run-scoring hits from Allman, Stritzinger and Malfara helped Brandywine take a 5-0 lead after one inning. The Lions tacked on two more runs on Patterson's two-run single in the second and plated 11 runs in the third after sending 15 batters to the plate.

Stritzinger got the scoring going with an RBI double and delivered the big blow of the inning when she came up for a second time during the frame and sent a grand slam over the left field fence for her first collegiate home run.

Brandywine added eight more runs during its final at-bat, capped off by a bases-clearing triple from Katie DeStefano (Kennett Square, Pa./Kennett).

The Lions produced 16 hits during the nightcap, while DeRosa limited Cairn to just one run on three hits and struck out five to earn her second victory in as many days.

Brandywine (3-11) opens conference play Monday at Penn State Scranton at 2:00 pm.