From Staff Reports
Cumberland Times-News
April 18, 2008 11:09 pm
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Frostburg State University hit a pair of home runs in the first game and freshman Kelly Callan tossed her first career no-hitter as FSU swept up a pair of wins from Pitt-Greensburg Thursday afternoon on a sun-drenched Bobcat Field.
Frostburg State earned an 8-4 victory in the opener and FSU needed only five innings for an 11-1 win in the second game.
FSU (13-14, 6-5) smacked three more home runs in twinbill, extending the school record to 15, after surpassing the previous mark of 11 on Tuesday at Mount Aloysius.
In the opener, Pitt-Greensburg (7-11, 7-9) led 2-0 after scoring a run in each of the first two innings. Senior Amanda Baldwin got the Bobcat offense going with a leadoff double in the bottom of the second. Freshman Brooke Tapman then belted a pitch over the left field fence to make it 2-2.
After UPG scored in the top of the third, sophomore Lindsay Freitag tied it again with a solo home run to left in the bottom of the inning.
Frostburg State took a 6-3 lead in the fourth when Freitag and sophomore Katelyn Coffey each drove in runs off of their base hits. Coffey ended the scoring in the fourth when she scored on an error by the Pitt-Greensburg infield.
Tapman scored on an error in the fifth and Baldwin doubled down the left field line in the sixth, scoring Freitag, to make it 8-3. UPG’s Haley Gearhart had an RBI single in the seventh for the 8-4 final.
After allowing six hits and three runs over the first three innings, Coffey settled down to hold Pitt-Greensburg to one run and four hits over the final four innings to earn her ninth win. She is 9-5 overall and 4-2 in the AMCC after striking out six in seven innings.
Freitag finished 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored including her third home run. Tapman was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored with her fourth homer.
In the second game, Callan earned her fourth win after tossing her first collegiate no-hitter. She walked two batters and let loose a wild pitch in the fourth that allowed Pitt-Greensburg to score its only run.
Pitching was a problem for UPG in the nightcap as three different pitchers combined to walk nine batters, uncorked four wid pitches and allowed 11 runs, four earned.
Senior Lindsay Seal finished a 2-for-2 with two RBIs and a run scored, while Junior Kaitlyn Wagner was 1-for-2 with an RBI and three runs scored.
Frostburg State hosts Medaille today at 1 p.m. in an AMCC doubleheader.
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