Box Score BRONX, N.Y. – Seeking their first three-game sweep in A-10 play this season, Fordham University Softball plated six runs in its first turn at the plate Sunday afternoon, and never looked back as they pulled away for a 11-2 win over George Washington.
The Rams claimed a pair of victories, 3-2 and 2-0 on Saturday to take their third A-10 series win of the season. Sunday's victory sees the Maroon and White win their fifth consecutive game while improving to 8-4 in A-10 conference play.
Allowing just a single hit in the top half of the first, the Rams would capitalize on their first turn through the order, batting around in the opening frame for six runs on four hits and a pair of George Washington errors. Fordham would continue to score in the second, loading the bases before plating three more runs in the second, and two more in the fifth, to win 11-2, tallying 10 or more runs for the fifth time this season.
In just the first two innings, the Rams would see all nine players in the batting order reach base safely, before going on to scatter 12 hits, with five players tallying two hits apiece. Four would come around to score multiple times, with three more scoring once, while six Rams recorded an RBI, led by Bella Ayala with three, and two apiece from three different players.
Devon Miller picked up the win in the circle, her third in a row, tossing all five innings while giving up just two earned and striking out four.
Fordham would see its first two base runners of the day reach safely on errors by the Revolutionaries, taking a 1-0 lead on a fielder's choice and errand throw that scored Bailey Enoch from first off a hit from Neleh Nogay. After she tallied three RBI's and drew three walks in the doubleheader yesterday, George Washington would intentionally walk Sydney Wells. Nogay would move to third on the first out of the frame, before scoring on a Michaela Carter single on the next at bat.
Continuing to move the chains, Eva Koratsis would bloop a single into short right field to score Wells and make it 3-0. Bella Ayala tallied the fourth run of the inning for the Rams with a single to the right side, before two more runs came around to score as Kate McGuire placed a double in the left-center gap, as the Rams batted around in the first to take a six-run lead.
Miller would go right back to work in the second, cruising from the circle with a pair of strikeouts, and allowed the Rams to quickly get back to work with the bats.
The first three batters of the frame would reach safely to load the bases with nobody out, before a Koratsis single made it 7-0 Rams. Another Revs error would see Wells come home to extend the lead to eight, ahead of a Sarlo single to make it 9-0 after two. George Washington would put a pair of runs on the board in the third, before holding the Rams scoreless for the first time in the bottom of the inning.
A scoreless top of the fourth would see the Rams continue to bolster their advantage in their turn at the plate, with Carter scoring on an Ayala single, followed by a Sarlo RBI to push an 11-2 lead through four, before Miller closed things out in the fifth as the Rams claimed the win via the run-ahead rule.
The Rams continue a stretch of midweek road games across the New York region with a trip to Army Wednesday for a single game against the Black Knights.