DePaul University Athletics
DePaul University
Charleston Southern
DePaul Drops Easton Tournament Opener to Charleston Southern
3/13/2015 12:00:00 AM | SOFTBALL
Charleston Southern 4, DePaul 2
FULLERTON, Calif. - The DePaul softball team was held in check as it fell in its first game of the Easton Tournament to Charleston Southern, 4-2. The Blue Demons (6-13) were paced offensively by Kali Gardner and Angela Scalzitti, who each picked up two hits.
Charleston Southern (17-11) got on the board early as it pushed across two runs in the home half of the first inning from a two-out single.
The second inning stayed clean before DePaul struck back. Scalzitti lifted a single with two outs and managed to reach third on a muffed throw by the first baseman. Back-to-back walks from Nicole Pihl and Morgan Maize plated Scalzitti and made it a 2-1 score line.
The Blue Demons used a double steal by Staci Bonezek and Ali Lenti to tie the game up in the top of the fourth at 2-2.
In the bottom of the fourth, the Buccaneers went back on top as the home team scored one run from a throwing error by DePaul.
The Blue Demons were held to just three hits in the final three innings and were unable to manage a comeback. Charleston Southern added a run in the sixth and took the game, 4-2.
Mary Connolly went the distance in the circle and held the Buccaneers to just one earned run. Two DePaul errors contributed to the other three runs that were scored.
Maize picked up the lone RBI by the Blue Demons from the bases-loaded walk in the third.
DePaul returns to the field tonight to take on host Cal State Fullerton at 8 p.m.
Notes: This was the second meeting between the programs all-time... the teams are now tied 1-1 in the series... in her last 11 at-bats, Kali Gardner has six hits... Gardner now leads the Blue Demons with a current three-game hitting streak... Dylan Christensen snapped her team-best streak of eight games reaching base safely... DePaul dropped its first game of the season when holding an opponent to five runs or fewer (6-1)... the Blue Demons have reached a five-game losing streak for the first time since Feb. 15-17, 2013... Staci Bonezek played in her 175th game... Angela Scalzitti has gone 2-for-4 in the last two games she has played in.
