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Grace Franczyk
Sam Beall
4
Coppin St. COPPIN S 1-7
5
Winner Towson TOWSON 13-7
Coppin St. COPPIN S
1-7
4
Final
5
Towson TOWSON
13-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Coppin St. COPPIN S 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 8 0
Towson TOWSON 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 5 12 2

W: Guy, Mikaela (3-1) L: Debra Hyde (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | Riley Kijek

Franczyk's Walkoff Gives Towson Softball an 8th Straight Win

TOWSON, Md.  – The Towson University softball team faced Coppin State in the final game of the Towson Tiger Invite on Sunday. A back-and-forth contest saw Kaci Benton and Grace Franczyk drive home the tying and winning runs respectively as Towson walked off the Eagles 5-4 in seven innings to go undefeated for the second weekend in a row and moved its winning streak to eight games.
 
Key Stats:
  • Leah Mears and Mackenzie Gorczyca each had three hit games.
  • Kaci Benton and Jada Wade both recorded multiple hits and an RBI
  • Jessa Pieters made her first career start on the mound and pitched 3.0 innings allowing six hits and three earned runs.
  • Chelsey Farthing pitched a scoreless inning of relief.
  • Mikaela Guy earned the win after entering out of the bullpen and pitching 3.0 perfect innings with two strikeouts.
  • Debra Hyde received the loss after pitching 6.2 innings for Coppin State and allowing 12 hits and five runs.
How it Happened:
  • Towson starting pitcher Jessa Pieters and Coppin's starter Debra Hyde kept the game scoreless through two innings.
  • After Peters' third scoreless frame, Leah Mears singled with one out in the bottom of the 3rd and with two outs Addie Ferguson hit a single of her own to give the Tigers the game's first run.
  • The Eagles responded with a four-run 4th to put Towson in a three-run hole with three innings to go.
  • The Tigers hit back-to-back one out singles in the home half of the 4th bringing up Jada Wade who picked up her second RBI in as many starts with another base knock.
  • Mikaela Guy entered to pitch in the top of the fifth and faced the minimum over the next two innings.
  • Mackenzie Gorczyca's third hit of the game followed by Wade's second put runners on the corners, before a wild pitch brought a Tiger run home cutting the deficit to 4-3 entering the 7th.
  • After another 1-2-3 inning from Guy, Leah Mears led off the bottom of the 7th with her third single of the day, and Kaci Benton doubled her home to tie the game. A sacrifice fly brought up Grace Franczyk whose line drive to centerfield was caught but allowed Benton to score the walkoff run and delivered a 5-4 comeback win to Towson.
 
Up Next:
The Tigers are right back in action at Tiger Softball Stadium on Tuesday, March 10. Towson will host Delaware State at 2 p.m. in its first of two midweek games next week.
 
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