(Courtesy of Felician College Sports Information)
LYNDHURST, N.J. – The Felician College softball team lost both ends of a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader, 5-0 and 10-0, to visiting Georgian Court University in its regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at Matera Field.
The victories clinch the #4 seed for the Lions in the upcoming 2013 CACC Championship Softball Tournament, which will be hosted by GCU this Thursday-Saturday. They will take on #5 University of the Sciences Thursday at noon on Field #2 of the Georgian Court Softball Complex.
Georgian Court junior Kristina Morgan pitched complete-game shutouts in both games. The 5-foot-6 right-hander tossed a four-hitter with 11 strikeouts in Game 1, and came back with a five-inning, 53-pitch, two-hitter with six punchouts in the nightcap. She did not walk or hit a batter in her 12 innings of work.
The afternoon's opening game was scoreless after three frames before Georgian Court (27-25, 17-9) picked up all five of its runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Lions had seven hits and drew a bases-loaded walk in the rally. That was plenty of support for Morgan, who did not allow a runner to reach second base.
The Lions jumped out early in Game 2, batting around and scoring five times in the top of the first inning.
Meghan Sfraga had a two-run single, and fellow freshman
Adriana Cortez capped the rally with a two-run double.
After plating single runs in the third and fourth, GCU put the game away with a three-run fifth. Morgan worked around two errors in the bottom of the fifth to retire the side and end the game. It was the only occasion all day in which the Golden Falcons put two runners on base in the same inning.
Thompson and Molino each went 3 for 4, and Sfraga and Cortez drove in three runs apiece. The Lions racked up 14 hits in their five offensive innings.
Kelsi Ludwigsen (Havre de Grace, Md./Harford Tech) had a hit in each game for Felician (15-29, 9-17).
