Brandywine Rolls Past Scranton In PSUAC Opener

ASTON, Pa. – Penn State Brandywine scored early and often as the Lions opened Penn State University Athletic Conference softball play with victories over Penn State Scranton by scores of 26-0 and 20-1 Friday afternoon. 

Game One: Penn State Brandywine 26, Penn State Scranton 0 

Brandywine scored 13 times in the first inning, while adding seven more scores in the third and six in the fourth. The Lions tallied 22 hits overall. 

Farrell Everett (Wynnewood, Pa./Haverford) went 3-for-3 and drove in three runs, while Crystal Cassario (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury) and Lianna DeDios (Elmwood Park, N.J./Memorial) both collected two hits and three RBI. 

Kassidy Hoffman (Fallsington, Pa./Pennsbury) paced the Lions with four runs batted in and produced two hits and two runs scored.  

Jess James (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury), Meghan Ferry (Gloucester City, N.J./Gloucester City), Karly Rees (Oxford, Pa./Oxford) and Becky Valente (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford) all tallied two hits. Ferry scored a team-high three runs. 

Cassario won her sixth game in the circle after twirling a two-hit shutout. She struck out eight batters over five innings. 

Game Two: Penn State Brandywine 20, Penn State Scranton 1 

Brandywine eased to another victory in game two, winning 20-1. 

Rebecca Halford (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) yielded a first-inning home run, but set down the final 13 batters she faced to earn her fifth win of the season. She fanned a career-high 11 hitters, including seven-straight between the first and third innings, and allowed just one hit. 

Ferry homered for the fifth time in the last two weeks, while Gianna Terpolilli (Hammonton, N.J./Our Lady of Mercy Academy) and Gianna Casale (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert) both registered three hits and two runs scored. Terpolilli drove in two runs and Casale joined Everett and Payton Landis (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) with three RBI. 

Zoey Lineman (West Depotford, N.J./GCIT) added two hits, two runs and two RBI, while Cassario also knocked in two runs. 

Brandywine answered Scranton's first-inning run with six in their half of the first. The Lions put the game away by scoring 12 times in the third. 

Brandywine (12-6, 2-0 PSUAC) visits Swarthmore Sunday at 1:00 PM.