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Errors mark Lynx unraveling in loss to E-Town

Errors mark Lynx unraveling in loss to E-Town

CLERMONT, FL – The good news is that one game after scoring nine runs in shutting out Penn State-Behrend, Lesley put up an eight spot Monday against Elizabethtown.

            The bad news is that the Lynx committed just as many errors.

            In a game featuring 10 errors in all, Lesley University's eight errors led to eight unearned runs in an 11-8 loss to Elizabethtown.

            Offensively, the Lynx outhit the Jays 14-10, with Ashley Cunningham going 2-for-2 with two RBIs, Gabrielle Brixey going 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs, and Alyson Durben coming off the bench to go 2-for-3.

            Heather Peluso went 2-for-3 with three RBIs for Elizabethtown, which broke out for 10 hits after garnering only three in two games yesterday.

            The Blue Jays didn't wait to start the scoring, as a leadoff walk to Courtney Comstock proved costly, as she came around to score on a Molly Sarson error. With one out, Peluso singled home Elly McCarthy and Lindsey Cooper, putting Elizabethtown up 3-0.

            Lesley got two back in the bottom of the first on Brixey's first extra-base hit as a Lynx, a triple to the wall in left-center that scored Jennifer Dorval and Sarah Apgar.

            The Jays, however, quickly took back their three-run lead, as Shannon Marisco reached on a Dorval error and scored on a close play at the plate on a Comstock sac fly to right. Before she struck out Cooper to end the inning, Lynx pitcher Cassandra Knox sent Marisco home on an illegal pitch, leaving E-Town back up by three, 5-2 in the second.

            Lesley tied the game an inning later with some help from the Jays. Cunningham singled home newly-inserted Jessica Guevara, then a batter later, an error from McCarthy allowed Brixey and Cunningham to score to tie it.

            The Lynx took their first and only lead in the fifth. A clutch, two-out, opposite-field double down the line in left from designated player Emily Mangiaratti knocked in Durben and Rian Powers, giving Lesley a brief 7-5 lead.

            A five-run sixth for Elizabethtown started with a Whitney Breneman RBI triple, which was followed by two-run single from Peluso and an RBI double from Julie Sebastian. The Jays added run No. 11, as Comstock scored on Lesley's eighth error of the game, and Lesley went quietly in the seventh, falling 11-8.

            Lynx starter Cassandra Knox picked up a tough loss for a second day in a row, allowing nine runs, only three earned, over 5 and 2/3 innings in which she struck out four but walked five.

            Sebastian picked up the win for the Jays, going the distance and letting up six earned runs on 14 hits, three walks and three strikeouts.

            With the loss, Lesley drops to 1-2, while Elizabethtown improves to 1-2.