TOWSON, Md.  – The Towson University softball team faced Georgetown in a midweek match up at Tiger Softball Stadium on Tuesday. A 5^th inning homerun by Addie Ferguson made the difference as the Tigers beat the Hoyas 4-3 to improve to 18-11 overall.
 
Key Stats:

• Addie Ferguson hit her 7^th homerun of the season as part of a two-RBI day. Ferguson now leads the Tigers in homers and is tied for first in the CAA.
• Mackenzie Gorczyca had a multi-hit game with an RBI.
• Leah Mears scored a game-high two runs and hit her first career triple.
• Jessa Pieters earned her second win of the season after pitching 2.0 scoreless innings of relief allowing three hits with a strikeout. Amanda Medina started on the mound and threw 3.0 innings allowing four hits and three runs with two strikeouts.
• Mikaela Guy notched her CAA leading fifth save of the year after pitching the final 2.0 innings allowing only one hit with four strikeouts.
• Emily Collins receives the loss for the Hoyas after pitching 2.0 innings out of the bullpen and allowing one hit and one run with three strikeouts.

How it Happened:

• After Amanda Medina sent the Hoyas down in order in the 1^st, the first two Tigers to bat reached on errors putting two in scoring position. An Addie Ferguson groundout and Mackenzie Gorczyca single allowed the Tigers to jump out to a 2-0 lead.
• Georgetown responded by loading the bases in the 2^nd with one out, Medina got the second out but a double from the next batter cleared the bases and put the Hoyas up 3-2.
• The next two half-innings went by scoreless.
• Leah Mears led off the bottom of the 3^rd with a triple and scored on a Kaci Benton single to tie the game at three.
• Jessa Pieters entered to pitch for Towson and threw scoreless 4^th and 5^th innings.
• With one out in the bottom of the 5^th, Addie Ferguson hit her seventh homerun of the year to put Towson ahead 4-3.
• Mikaela Guy came on the pitch in the 6^th and struck out four while only facing seven batters over the 6^th and 7^th innings as the freshman earned her fifth save and closed out a 4-3 Towson win.

 
Up Next:
The Tigers now hit the road and head north for the second weekend in a row. Towson will visit Stony Brooke for a weekend series with game one starting at 2 p.m.