CHARLESTON, S.C. – Olivia Yarbrough and Shelby Stracher led the Towson University softball team during a tough 5-4 setback to host Charleston Southern Friday afternoon in the second game of the Willie Jewels Invitational Tournament.
 
How It Happened

• Senior Olivia Yarbrough and sophomore Shelby Stracher had three hits each for Towson.
• Olivia Yarbrough and Kendyl Scott opened the game with consecutive walks for the Tigers.
• Stracher increased her RBI total to four on the young season with a one-out two-run single in the first inning that scored Scott and Yarbrough helping the Tigers race to a 2-0 lead.
• Stracher also threw out a runner attempt to steal a base.
• Charleston Southern sent nine batters to the plate in a four-run bottom of the first inning.
• Trailing 5-2 in the sixth inning, Towson scored twice to close to within one run.
• Nicole Stockinger got the action started for the Tigers by reaching safely on an error.
• Yarbrough's two-out RBI double scored pinch runner Jessica South, cutting the Bucs' lead to 5-4.
• The Tigers stranded the tying run on base in the seventh inning.
• Megan Dejter struck out a career-high seven batters in tossing a complete game.

 
Inside The Boxscore

• Stracher has opened the season with two RBIs in each of Towson's first two games.
• Stracher has extra base hits in each of the Tigers' first two contests.
• Going back to 2015, Stracher has a four-game hitting streak.
• This was the sixth time Stracher has driven in multiple-runs in a game.
• Towson had its leadoff runner reach base in four innings.
• Yarbrough stole her first base of the season in the first inning.
• For Dejter, it was the third time in her career she had at least five strikeouts in a game.
• Through two games, Yarbrough (.571 batting average) and Stracher (.500) are hitting over .500 for the Tigers.
• The Tigers had six different players draw walks.

 
Up Next
Towson concludes play in the Willie Jewels Invitational Tournament on Saturday when it meets IPFW at 9 a.m. and Georgetown at 11 a.m.