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Grace Franczyk
Towson Athletics
3
Morgan State MSUSB 16-13
4
Winner Towson TOWSON 13-18
Morgan State MSUSB
16-13
3
Final
4
Towson TOWSON
13-18
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Morgan State MSUSB 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 8 0
Towson TOWSON 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 4 8 1

W: Brown, Erin (3-7) L: Bostedt,Elli (2-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | David Castellanos

Franczyk Provides the Heroics in a 4-3 Walk-Off Win Against Morgan State

TOWSON, Md. – Towson softball picked up a 4-3 extra inning win against Morgan State on Tuesday afternoon, thanks to an RBI single from Grace Franczyk in the eighth inning. Towson fell behind twice during the game, but got a big RBI hit late to tie it and win it in extra innings.

Towson (13-18) was led by Franczyk who went 3-4 from the plate including the game-winning RBI against the Lady Bears (16-13). With the win, head coach Lisa Costello is just one win away from
800 for her career.

Key Stats:
  • Franczyk led the Tigers with three hits including two doubles and an RBI in the win.
  • Mackenzie Lake also had a multi-hit game going 2-4 with an RBI triple that tied the game.
  • Erin Brown picked up her third win of the year going 4.2 innings of relief allowing just one hit with one strikeout.
How It Happened:
  • Both starting pitchers held off the other early on. Morgan State would take an early lead capitalizing on a Towson error to take a 2-0 lead.
  • Towson would answer in the third. With the bases loaded, Cori Jones came up clutch with a two-RBI double that scored Kellie Zoerb and Mackenzie Lake to tie the game at 2-2.
  • After Morgan State retook the lead in the fourth, Mackenzie Lake would tie it back up in the bottom of the inning. Grace Franczyk led off with a double and advanced on a sacrifice bunt. Lake then came up and smashed a triple to center that scored Franczyk to tie it against 3-3.
  • In the sixth, Towson got the go-ahead run to second after a one-out double from Franczyk, but she would be left on base.
  • Neither side could get a base runner in the seventh as the game headed to extra innings.
  • In the extra frame, Erin Brown retired the side to give Towson a chance to walk it off.
  • Cara Bohner led off the bottom of the eighth with a single to right and would advance on a sacrifice bunt from Sydni Byers.
  • Just two batters later, Grace Franczyk laced a single to left that scored Bohner to give Towson a 4-3 win on Tuesday.
On Deck:
  • The Tigers will travel to Long Island to take on Stony Brook this weekend. The Tigers and Seawolves will play three games over three days, with each game starting at 1 p.m.
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