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Box Score 2 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - On Friday, Palm Beach Atlantic scored late to edge the Eckerd softball team.
On Saturday, the Sailfish did it again - twice - to finish off a weekend sweep of the Tritons in West Palm Beach, 5-4 in eight innings and 6-1.
Eckerd (9-5-1) was either tied or in the lead in the sixth inning in all three games of the series, but that also became the same inning that PBA rallied.
In Saturday's opener, the Tritons scored twice in the fifth inning to take a 4-3 lead before the Sailfish knotted the game with a sacrifice fly in the sixth. Neither team scored in the seventh, sending the game into extra innings where PBA took advantage of an error by EC's
Rachael Luckett to score Brianna Rano from second base.
Eckerd took a 2-0 lead in the top of the third on a fielder's choice RBI by
Chelsea Armstrong and an error that allowed
Carrie Shere to score on the play as well. One inning later, the Sailfish got a three-run home run by Victoria Gonzalez after EC made a pair of errors to start the inning.
But the Tritons retook the lead in the fifth thanks to a
Kaycie Duncan RBI single and a run-scoring groundout by Luckett to make it 4-3. EC starter
Nikole Van Gennep stranded two in the bottom of the inning but ran into trouble again in the sixth as PBA tied the game on a sacrifice fly.
Janna Gaburo entered in relief and recorded the final out of the inning to strand two runners.
Gaburo again worked out of a jam in the seventh, leaving the bases loaded, before the Sailfish scored the walk-off win in the eighth.
In the finale, the game was tied at 1-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, where PBA scored five times to complete the sweep.
PBA (8-7) got an RBI from Gonzalez on a fielder's choice in the first inning to take the early lead, but Eckerd tied the game in the fifth on a two-our single by
Kiley King to score Gaburo from third.
The Sailfish answered with five runs in the sixth, using a string of five straight singles to build the rally. They had seven hits in the inning - all singles - and chased Gaburo with one out.
Grace Willeck allowed only one inherited run and struck out two batters in leaving the bases loaded.
Duncan and Gaburo both went 2-for-4 in the opener while Shere went 2-for-3 in the finale. Gaburo (4-2) took the loss in both games.
Eckerd returns to action on Wednesday in Clermont, Florida, taking on Quincy (Ill.) University and Lake Superior State (Mich.) at 1:00 and 3:00 PM.
