By: By Kevin Kline, Sports Information Assistant
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CLERMONT, Fla. – Junior
Makenzie Lynn and senior
Emily Estep combined for 14 strikeouts and one run given up on Tuesday afternoon as the No. 25 Shippensburg University softball team totaled 18 hits in beating Bridgeport and Alderson Broaddus, 4-0 and 2-1, respectively, on its third day of competition at the NTC Spring Games from the National Training Center in Clermont, Fla.
The Raiders (7-1) broke out for 12 hits in the first game vs. Bridgeport (4-5) and provided plenty of run support for Lynn, who earned her first complete-game shutout of the season while giving up six hits and striking out seven. Estep also struck out seven and gave up five hits, and after loading the bases and giving up a run in the first inning, rebounded to retire 13 consecutive batters in the middle innings en route to the complete-game win.
Four Raiders finished with three or more hits, including junior shortstop
Taylor Weisman, who had a team-high four hits in seven at-bats, and senior left fielder
Hilary Lyons, who went 3-for-5 and was successful in all three of her stolen-base attempts and is now 9-for-9 on the season.
Sophomore right fielder
Briana Giovenco ripped a bases-clearing, two-run double to right-center as part of a three-run second inning vs. Bridgeport while Lyons also drove in a run that inning with an infield single.
Junior first basemen
Jessie Trammell and
Maddie Justice each went 3-for-6 while Justice ripped doubles in the second and third innings vs. Bridgeport with the latter bringing home a run.
Senior second baseman
Rachel Shumway accounted for SU's lone RBI vs. Alderson Broaddus with a second-inning bases-loaded walk that followed a run scored on a throwing error.
Giovenco and junior center fielder
Tyler Thompson each recorded two hits on the day. Thompson also stole her second base of the season and is one shy of tying the school career record of 52 set by Jill Mullan (2008-11).
The Raiders wrap up their seven-game Florida trip on Wednesday with games at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. against West Virginia Wesleyan and American International, respectively. The games will be played at Hancock Park (also in Clermont) and NOT at the National Training Center.