WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – The Nichols softball team dropped both games of their Thursday doubleheader during their spring break Florida trip. Nichols lost the first game of the day to Hood by the score of 5-0. The Bison went to extra innings with Rutgers Camden later in the day, eventually falling 7-5 in nine innings.
Hood 5, Nichols 0
Hood got on the board in the first inning on an RBI single to right field. The Blaze added to their lead in the third inning with an RBI double to make it 2-0. The big swing of the game came in the fifth inning when Jocelyn Pfleiger drove a ball deep to left field and over the fence for a two-run home run.
Hood tacked on another run in the sixth before the Bison put two runners on in the top of the seventh, but they were unable to cross the plate as Hood took home the victory.
Erin Gour and
Allie Silliman each picked up a hit for the Bison. Sophomore
Chelsea Indyk went 4.1 innings on the mound, surrendering four runs on four hits and striking out five.
Rutgers-Camden 7, Nichols 5
Nichols plated a run in the first when
Emily Iannuccilli crossed home on a throwing error by the catcher. The Bison tacked on two more runs in the second inning on an RBI knock from Iannuccilli and a ground out from
Allie Brown, scoring
Riley Chartier.
Rutgers-Camden took the lead in the fourth inning with four runs on five hits. Nichols wasted no time evening the score back up as Brown picked up her second RBI of the game. The game headed to extra innings knotted at four with both teams scoring the automatic runner from second in the eighth inning. Rutgers-Camden was able to push two runs across in the ninth inning and the Bison went down in order to end the game.
Iannuccilli led the offense with three hits, while Chartier picked up two of her own. Senior
Alyssa Ouellette came on in relief, tossing four innings, allowing no earned runs and just three hits.
Nichols looks to bounce back on Friday, March 17 when they take on Ramapo and Saint Mary's (IN) in their final games of the trip. The first pitch is set for 9:00 and 11:30 a.m.