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DUKES DROP A PAIR TO TOWSON
4/5/2008 4:00:00 AM | Softball
HARRISONBURG, Va., April 5, 2008 ? The James Madison softball team dropped a pair of Colonial Athletic Association games on Saturday, falling to 17-19 this season and 3-5 in conference. The Tigers trailed 6-3 entering the seventh inning but came back to win game one 8-6 in eight innings. In game two, Towson jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, winning 6-0.
After giving up a JMU season-high 16 hits and six runs to the Dukes in the first game, the Tigers held the JMU offense in check for game two. Right-hander Claire Reitmann-Grout drew the start for Towson. She pitched seven innings, gave up three hits, walked two and struck out two in the shutout.
The Tigers got two runs in the second, two in the third and two in the fifth as they pounded out nine hits, including three doubles and a home run against JMU pitching.
JMU starter Shannon Outman (Gainesville, Fla./P.K. Yonge) ran into trouble early as she allowed a leadoff single, a walk and an infield single to load the bases in the second. Outman got left fielder Emily Gould to ground out but third baseman Stef Streets scored on the play. Catcher Meaghan Clark followed that up with an RBI double before the left-hander escaped the jam with a strikeout and a foul out.
Towson went right back to work in the third, getting a one-out double from right fielder Nina Navarro. Outman got the second out of the inning on a fly ball to left but gave up a two-run home run to designated player Aimee Rosa to put Madison in a 4-0 hole. It was Rosa's fourth home run of the year.
Rosa added another RBI in the fifth when she doubled in Navarro on a line drive off the top of the fence in right-center field. Rosa was than run for by Erica Dresel, who advance to third on a single by first baseman Stephanie Fudurich and scored on a fielder's choice. Junior second baseman Kaitlyn Wernsing (Clemmons, N.C./West Forsyth) threw home on the play but the umpire ruled that Dresel got in under the tag by freshman catcher Katie Spitzer (Broadway, Va./Broadway).
The Dukes managed little offense
