Kutztown University Athletics

KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Kutztown softball finished off its home schedule with a doubleheader sweep over Millersville Friday afternoon in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division action at North Campus Field.
 
The Golden Bears (33-17, 22-8 PSAC East) won game one 6-5 and took game two 3-1.
 
It was more of a pitching day Friday for both squads as the Marauders (21-29, 8-22) finished with 11 hits on the day, while KU had 10. The pitching duo of Abbey Wagner (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown) and Haley Gravish (Hamburg, Pa./Hamburg) combined to give up just five hits and two runs, both earning victories in game one and two, respectively. It's win No. 21 on the season for Gravish, which ranks second in the PSAC. She is also seven victories away from the program record for career wins (100).
 
Emily Henn (Matamoras, Pa./Delaware Valley) continued her surge at the plate, going 4-for-6, including a triple and a home run, scored four runs and had two RBIs. She leads the conference with 77 hits. Alexa Stevens (Jefferson Township, Pa./North Pocono) finished with two hits, also homering, and had two RBIs and two runs scored. Samantha Paetow (Fayetteville, Pa./Chambersburg), Morgan Slomkowski (Toms River, N.J./Toms River East), Ashley Schulz (Oreland, Pa./Springfield) and Jamie Madara (Levittown, Pa./Academy of the New Church) all recorded a hit.
 
Kutztown finishes out the regular season portion of its schedule tomorrow, Saturday, May 2, with two games at Shippensburg, beginning at 1 p.m. KU can secure the top seed from the East with one win tomorrow.
 
Kutztown 6, Millersville 5
 
Stevens wasted little time in making sure her team would walk off the field as winners. She took the first pitch and ripped a lead off home run on a line drive that just cleared the right center field wall for the game-winning run.
 
It was a much-needed run as Millersville was surging after scoring three runs combined in the top of the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game at 5-5 after it was trailing 5-2.
 
Stevens also added an RBI in the bottom of the third, doubling to left center to break another tie, that time 1-1. Paetow got the scoring going with an RBI groundout in the first and then followed Stevens with a run-scoring single in the third to push the lead to 3-1.
 
The Marauders cut their deficit in half with a run in the top of the fourth, but Henn put two right back on with a two-run HR in the bottom half of the frame and her team went ahead 5-2. But a Ville RBI single in the top of the fifth and then a two-run shot in the sixth tied the score.
 
Wagner entered in the top of the sixth in relief of Amanda Slabicki (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) and earned the win, giving up a hit and a run, striking out one for her sixth victory of the season.
 
Kutztown 3, Millersville 1
 
This game was quick paced and was won in just one inning as Kutztown brought three runners home in the bottom of the third inning and Gravish was dialed in inside the circle.
 
In the third, Madara led off with a walk. Two batters later, Morgan Kocher (Warminster, Pa./William Tennent) walked to put runners at first and second with one out. After a strikeout and then another walk, this one to Paetow, Slomkowski stepped up with two outs and the bases loaded in a 0-0 game and delivered. She ripped a single up the middle to bring home two runs. A fielding error in the next at-bat brought around Paetow for the 3-0 advantage.
 
That was all the Maroon and Gold would need as Gravish was dialed in and allowed just the one run in the top of the fifth inning.

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