Milligan Earns 500th Career Win; Army Splits Doubleheader

Saturday, March 7

Clearwater, Fla.

9 AM

Army West Point

9-9, 0

Bowling Green

9-6, 0

Army

Bowling Green

Milligan Earns 500th Career Win; Army Splits Doubleheader

March 07, 2020 | Softball

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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Army West Point softball coach Cheryl Milligan picked up her 500th career win with Army's 6-3 victory in the back end of its doubleheader at the Clearwater Spring Break Invitational on Saturday. Army fell in its first game in a tight 3-2 decision to Bowling Green.

Milligan brought with her to West Point an overall record of 490-148 in her 15 seasons at the helm of the Tufts program.

GAME 1: BOWLING GREEN 3, ARMY 2

ARMY NOTES AND HIGHLIGHTS

Madi Gilmore was 3-for-4 at the plate and had 2 RBIs.
Three hits is a new career high for the sophomore from Rosamond, Calif.
Gilmore has sent in 10 runs this season, which is tied for the fourth most RBIs on the team.
Alicyn Grete extended her hit-streak to 14 games.
In three innings on the mound, Emily Iannotti registered four strikeouts.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Army got on the board in top of the first inning with a 2 RBI single from Gilmore, that scored Grete and Jolie Duong.
After two shutout innings from Macey Newbary on the mound, the Falcons eventually answered back in the bottom of the third with three runs.
Bowling Green had runners in scoring position with one out when Nikki Sorgi cleared the bases with a 2 RBI double that evened the game at two apiece. Sorgi would eventually go on to score what proved to be the winning run.
The Cadets made things interesting in the top of the seventh with Brooke Tuttle advancing to third off a Gilmore single with two outs. Though, Yale's Payton Gottshall was able to retire the next Army batter to capture her ninth win on the mound this season.

GAME 2: ARMY 6, YALE 3

ARMY NOTES AND HIGHLIGHTS

Grete picked up her third win of the season, pitching all seven innings and allowing just three earned runs.
At the plate, Grete was 2-for-2, which extended her hit-streak to 15 games. She's now had six multi-hit games this season.
Ally Snelling also had two RBIs to improve her season total to 18, which leads the team.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Yale opened the scoring in the top of the first with Annie Tarte scoring on an RBI double from Giovy Webb.
Army countered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning.
Snelling got things going with a 2 RBI single to center that scored Taylor Drayton and Grete to make the score 2-1 in favor of Army. The Cadets added two more runs with Snelling and Gilmore scoring on an error by the left fielder to go up 4-1.
Grete helped her cause on the mound in the top of the fourth by hitting a two-run homer.
Yale got runs back in the fifth and sixth, but Grete and the Black Knights were able to hold off any hopes of a comeback for the Bulldogs.

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