Army Drops Pair of Heartbreakers to Colgate

Saturday, April 6

West Point

12 PM

Army West Point

17-20, 4-3

Colgate

14-17, 1-3

Colgate

Army West Point

Army Drops Pair of Heartbreakers to Colgate

April 06, 2019 | Softball

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WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army West Point softball team dropped a pair of heartbreaking games in its series-opening doubleheader against Colgate at the Army Softball Complex on Saturday afternoon.

The Black Knights forced extra innings in game one, but fell, 10-9. In game two, the home side had the Raiders down to their final out before a pair of back-to-back home runs pushed the visitors into the lead.

Senior Ashley Yoo and sophomore Ally Snelling paved the way for Army's offense, which totaled 12 runs and 23 hits on the day. Yoo collected a team-high five hits and three runs scored, while Snelling recorded three of Army's four extra-base hits with a home run and two doubles. The Las Vegas, Nev., native also drove in a team-high six RBI, including the squad's first five-RBI game in the first contest.

GAME 1: Colgate 10, Army 9 (8 Innings)
HOW IT HAPPENED

Colgate capitalized on a pair of doubles in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead.
The Black Knights answered in the home half with three runs of their own to take a 3-2 advantage.
Emily Ballesteros plated Carrie Reilly with an RBI single to cut the deficit to one before Bianca Gonzalez scored the Chino Hills, Calif., native to tie the game.
Julia Wyatt legged out a two-out, infield single that allowed Jolie Duong to score the go-ahead run.
Snelling added to that lead in the second frame with a two-run double to extend the home side's advantage to 5-2.
Nicole Rounsavill brought the Raiders back within one in the top of the third with a two-out, two-run double.
Colgate recaptured the lead later in the inning when it scored twice on a defensive miscue.
The visitors scored three runs over the next two innings to bump their lead to 9-5.
Snelling came through again, this time with a three-run opposite field home run to trim the deficit to one heading into the final inning, 9-8.
Livingston provided the big hit in the seventh inning to force extras with a two-out single that scored Gonzalez as the game-tying run.
Colgate earned the first run in extra innings when Rounsavill's two-out single scored Virginia Irby.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Reilly scored her 15th run of the season.
The Riverside, Ill., native contributed her team-leading 30th hit of the year.
Snelling collected her team-leading eighth double of the season.
The Las Vegas, Nev., native drove in her 30th career RBI.
She slugged her second home run of the year.
Snelling posted Army's first five-RBI game of the season, setting a new single-game career high.
Yoo became the first Cadet to reach 10 multi-hit games this season.
The Yorba Linda, Calif., native scored her 65th career run.
Gonzalez recorded the 20th hit of her rookie campaign.

GAME 2: Colgate 4, Army 3
HOW IT HAPPENED

Army jumped out to an early two-run advantage in the first inning following a pair of RBI hits from Snelling and Drayton.
Cayman Coughlin tied the game for Colgate in the sixth inning when the pinch hitter drove in two on a single.
The Black Knights responded in the bottom of the inning which started with a double by Megan Muffett.
Yoo recorded an RBI single that plated pinch runner Annie Brock to allow Army to retake the lead at 3-2.
The Raiders used a pair of back-to-back home runs by Morgan Farrah and Virginia Irby to take the lead in the seventh inning and secure the win.

ARMY HIGHLIGHTS AND GAME NOTES

Livingston stole her team-leading 10th base of the season.
Yoo posted her team-leading 11th multi-hit effort of the year.
The Yorba Linda, Calif., native recorded three consecutive multi-hit games for the second time this season.
Snelling, Yoo and Reilly all surpassed the 30-hit mark for the season.

COACH'S CORNER

Interim head coach Bob Beretta – "That was as tough a day on the softball field this team is going to have. We suffered two heartbreaking losses to a Colgate team that is really finding its stride offensively. I loved the way we fought in both games. To battle back from a 9-5 deficit late in the first game and force extra innings after being down to our final out is a testament to the spirit and character the club has shown all year. We just couldn't shut down Colgate's offense in the first game. They have a very physical team and lead the league in several offensive categories. They just kept coming after us.
"That's what made Macey's pitching performance so impressive in the second game. Shutting that team out through 5.2 innings is quite an accomplishment. We just couldn't close out the win. We couldn't extend our early 2-0 lead and that really came back to haunt us. We knew this was going to be a hard-fought series coming into the weekend. We need to dig deep within ourselves, regroup and come back with a strong effort tomorrow."

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