Fontbonne Softball Falls Against Centre And Huntingdon

MONTGOMERY, Ala.—The Fontbonne University softball team opened its 2023 campaign with a couple of tough losses against Centre and Huntingdon.

Game One

Centre 5, Fontbonne 3

Game Notes

The Griffins took a 1-0 lead in the second on an RBI sacrifice-fly off the bat of Ashley Carrow. In the third, the Griffins made it a 2-0 game when Grace Paez brought home Lilly Jones, who reached base on a one out single.

In the fifth, though the Colonels scored three runs on three hits to take a 3-2 lead. In the home half of the sixth, the Griffins were able to tie it.

Paez got thing started with a single to center and she was pinch ran for by Jayanne Roate. After a strikeout, Patience Vandermierden kept the inning alive with a single moving Roate up to second. 

Then, Carrow came through one more with a single scoring Roate to tie the game. Centre, though responded with two runs on one hit in the seventh to secure the 5-3 win.

Top Griffins

Patience Vandermierden: 3-for-3, one run scored

Ashley Carrow: 1-for-2, two RBI

Grace Paez: 1-for-3, RBI

Hailey Kutz: 5.1 IP, three runs, nine strikeouts

Game Two

Huntingdon 9, Fontbonne 0 (5 inn.)

Game Notes

The Hawks struck first scoring three runs in the bottom of the first. They scored three more in the second off an RBI single from Maddie Grace Hubbard and a two RBI double off the bat of Jordan Holman. 

Huntingdon plated three runs in the bottom of the fourth to go on for the nine-run victory.

Top Griffins

Lilly Jones: 2-for-3

Grace Paez: 1-for-3

Patience Vandermierden: 1-for-2

Makenzie Howell: 1-for-2

Up Next

The Griffins will face the same teams tomorrow starting with Centre at 11 a.m., followed by Huntingdon at 1 p.m.

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