Posted: Mar 06, 2016
Score: Roanoke 6, Buffalo State 1
Records: Roanoke 5-2, Buffalo State 0-1
Location: Virginia Beach, Va.
The Lead: RC used a four run fifth inning to break open a close game and top Buffalo State 6-1.
How it Happened:
- After Buffalo State took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning, RC went ahead in the home-half of the third when Rachel Guilliams doubled home Taylor Carter and Jordan Meador to make it 2-1 Maroons.
- Meador got things going in the Roanoke half of the fifth inning when she singled to open the inning and moved to third on a one-out single by Carter.
- A throwing error by the Buffalo State pitcher in the next at bat would allow both of the to score before a Becca Wenger double later in the inning plated Guilliams and Katie Smith to make it 6-1.
- Ruthie Williams went the distance in the circle allowing just one run on five hits and striking out one to improve to 2-0 on the year.
- Meador finished with three hits in the game, while Guilliams had a pair.
The Basics - Game Two
Score: Frostburg State 5, Roanoke 4 (9 inn.)
Records: Roanoke 5-3, Buffalo State 0-1
Location: Virginia Beach, Va.
The Lead: Frostburg State scored a 5-4 victory over Roanoke in nine innings on Saturday at the Beach Blast in Virginia Beach.
How it Happened:
- Frostburg State jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first inning before Meador was able to get RC on the board in the second when she tripled to score Kate Preister to make it 2-1.
- Williams came off the bench to pinch-hit in the fifth inning and delivered scoring Smith to put RC in front 3-1.
- With RC leading 3-2 in the seventh FSU capitalized on a miscue in the field by the Maroons to tie the game and send it to extra innings.
- In the eighth, Carter doubled home Forbes who was placed on second to make it 4-3. Cater advanced to third, but further damage was halted as FSU retired Smith to keep it a one run game.
- Frostburg would rally in its half of the eighth, getting a two-out RBI single to tie the game and then would score in the ninth to take the win.
- Teresa Wagner took the loss after going 8.1 innings in the circle. She allowed five runs, but just two were earned. She struck out nine and walked five.
