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Maryland 5 Delaware
0 Delaware Softball Win Streak ends at Eight with Doubleheader Split Against Maryland
The University of Delaware softball team (17-7), the fifth ranked team in the Northeast Region, split a doubleheader today (Friday) with the University of Maryland (27-17), who is ranked 30th in the nation. The Hens won the first game 1-0 while Maryland came back to win the second game 5-0. Delaware won the pitcher's duel in the first game 1-0. Kristi O'Connell did not allow a Maryland baserunner past second base. She allowed just four hits, walked three, while striking out eight which brings her strikeout total to 78 for the season which ranks as the fourth best in UD history. Delaware's lone run came on a Carolyn Wasilewski single which brought home Robin Zielinski who reached on a triple. Mandy Welch went 2-3 for the game to record her 10th multi-hit game of the season. Delaware was shutout for the first time in 21 games in the second game 5-0, the 21 consecutive games scoring a run was fourth longest streak in UD history. The 1976 and 1977 softball teams scored a run in 29 straight games which were the first 29 games of the softball program at Delaware. Maryland scored four runs in the first two innings and chasing Blue Hen starter Krsyta Pidstawski after an inning and two-thirds. Maryland added the fifth run in the third inning. Terrapin starter Kelly Shipman held the Blue Hens to a lone Robin Zielinski single while striking out seven and walking one. Delaware returns to action on Tuesday April 6 when the Hens face local rival LaSalle University in a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader at the Delaware Diamond. If Delaware wins the first game of the doubleheader against LaSalle, the Hens will be 18-7 which will be the best 25 game start in school history. Delaware (17-6) 000 000 1 1 5 0 Maryland (26-17) 000 000 0 0 4 0 Pitchers: UD: O'Connell and Wilkins; UM: Bettker and Radford; 3B: Zielinski; LOB: UD - 5, UM: 6; WP: O'Connell Winning Pitcher: O'Connell 8-3 Losing Pitcher: Bettker 8-6 Delaware (17-7) 000 000 0 0 1 0 Maryland (27-17) 221 000 x 5 5 2 Pitchers: UD: Pidstawski, O'Connell (1.2) and Dowell; UM: Shipman and Putnam; 2B: Burrell; HR: Shipman; LOB: UD - 4, UM - 3; Winning Pitcher: Shipman 14-10 Losing Pitcher: Pidstawski 7-4 |
