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BALTIMORE, Md. – The Kutztown University softball team added two non-conference games with Morgan State recently and split two games, winning the opener 7-2 before falling in game two 4-2 Wednesday afternoon in Baltimore, Md.
 
Hannah Auvil (Baltimore, Md./Sparrows Point) continued her hot start to the season at the plate, recording four hits in seven at-bats, while adding two RBI. The senior has 14 hits so far this season, leading the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. She also has four doubles, which is tops in the conference.
 
Freshman Brianna Hughes (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland) had three hits, all in game one, and also added three RBI. Senior Alyssa Donato (Cedarville, N.J./Cumberland Regional) also finished the day with three hits and had a team-high four RBI. Kate Ostaszewski (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) and Zoe Texidor (Reading, Pa./Exeter Township) both contributed two hits, with Ostaszewski scoring three runs.
 
Junior pitcher Bridget Bailey (Norwood, Pa./Interboro) started game one and went the distance, allowing two earned runs and striking out six to earn her second victory of the season.
 
Head coach Judy Lawes is now five wins away from 1,000 for her career.
 
Kutztown (3-3 overall) has its season opener this Friday, March 12, when it hosts Lock Haven for a doubleheader in PSAC action at North Campus Field beginning at 2:30 p.m.
 
Kutztown 7, Morgan State 2
 
It took awhile to get things going offensively for both teams. Morgan State was playing its first game of the 2021 campaign, and KU got off the bus after a three-hour ride.
 
After four scoreless innings, Kutztown broke the deadlock in the top of the fifth. The Golden Bears had their first five batters reach base safely. Ostaszewski led off the frame with a single, followed by a double from Auvil. Hughes then singled into left, bringing around Ostaszewski for a 1-0 lead. After a walk to Jenna Lipowski (Nanticoke, Pa./Greater Nanticoke Area), Donato stepped up and ripped a three-run double that sent the lead to 4-0.
 
The Bears got onto the scoreboard with a run in the bottom-half of the fifth, and then Kutztown struck again. Four straight batters got on, highlighted by back-to-back singles from Ostaszewski and Auvil, before Hughes doubled in two runs and a 7-1 advantage.
 
Bailey worked around a leadoff single in the seventh to sit the Bears down in order after Donato recorded an unassisted double play to finish off the game.
 
Morgan State 4, Kutztown 2
 
Morgan State opened up a three-run lead with two runs in the bottom of the third and one in the fifth before KU was able to get onto the scoreboard.
 
Donato had an RBI single in the top of the sixth and Auvil delivered a run-scoring double in the ensuing inning to highlight the Maroon and Gold scoring.
 
Amber Brugger (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy) went the distance and allowed four runs on eight hits, striking out two.