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Penn State Abington
SB - Yanss
3
Mitchell MITCHELL 3-2
4
Winner Penn St.-Abington PENN ST. 1-2
Mitchell MITCHELL
3-2
3
Final
4
Penn St.-Abington PENN ST.
1-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Mitchell MITCHELL 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 7 2
Penn St.-Abington PENN ST. 0 1 0 2 0 1 X 4 7 1

W: Yanss, Gretchen (1-0) L: O. DeCicco (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Abington Rallies to Defeat Mariners, 4-3

Little River, S.C. – The Penn State Abington softball team scored a pair of runs in the fourth inning to tie the game and then notched the go-ahead run in the sixth to defeat Mitchell College, 4-3, in a non-conference contest on Thursday morning at the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic down in Myrtle Beach.
 
Score: Penn State Abington 4, Mitchell 3
WP: Gretchen Yanss (1-1) | LP: Olivia DeCicco (0-1)
Records: Penn State Abington (1-2) | Mitchell (3-2)
Location: Little River, S.C. (North Myrtle Beach Sports Complex)
 
How It Happened
 
* Mitchell broke a 1-1 tie in the top half of the fourth with a pair of runs to lead 3-1.  Brooke Whitmarsh hit a solo homer, before Christina Housley registered a run scoring double.
 
* In the bottom of the fourth, Abington answered with two runs of its own to tie the game at 3-3. With two outs in the inning, junior Emily Foxhill and sophomore Marlena Hacker connected on back-to-back run scoring hits to tie the game.
 
* The score remained tied until the bottom of the sixth when the Nittany Lions took advantage of a Mariners' fielding blunder.  With two outs in the inning, sophomore Isabella Antosiewicz reached on a fielding error at second base and in the process, freshman Jess Dinardo, who pinch ran for senior Callie Chambers, came around to score from second to give Abington a 4-3 lead.
 
* Senior Gretchen Yanss retired the first two batters in the top half of the seventh before giving up a base hit to Gemma Landry.  Yanss recovered and forced a ground out on the next batter to seal the win for the Nittany Lions.
 
Inside the Box Score
 
* Yanss picked up her first victory of the season and the 29th of her career.  The program's all-time leader in strikeouts finished the game with five.  Yanss also went 2-for-3 at the plate.
 
* Hacker also had multiple hits in the game as she went 2-for-3 with an RBI.
 
* Antosiewicz and Foxhill each went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
 
* For Mitchell, Housley finished 2-for-3 with an RBI, while Landry went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
 
All-Time Series
Today marked the first-ever meeting between Abington and Mitchell.
 
Next Up
Abington returns to action later this evening as the Nittany Lions take on Bridgewater State University.  First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.

 
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