XENIA, Ohio – The Davis & Elkins College Softball team's season came to a close on Thursday with a pair of losses on the opening day of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Tournament.
The Senators fell to Ohio Dominican 3-2 in the opening round, falling in eight innings. In the elimination game, Davis & Elkins fell to Findlay 7-4.
Davis & Elkins took the lead over Ohio Dominican in the top of the first inning, as
Rhetta Persinger doubled down the left field line to score
Brittany Wade.
The Senators were unable to hold onto the lead though, as Ohio Dominican answered back with a run in the bottom half of the first.
In the third inning,
Kelsie Millner put the Senators back in the lead with a solo homerun to left.
Allie Lapallo and the Senators held onto the lead into the seventh inning, but the Panthers wouldn't go away, scoring on a two-out double to tie the game.
Ohio Dominican would score on another two-out hit in the bottom of the eighth inning to walk off with the victory.
Lapallo tossed 7.2 innings, giving up the three runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts.
Millner and Persinger both finished with two hits.
In the elimination game against Findlay, the Senators found themselves in a pitching duel early, as both teams were held scoreless into the fourth inning.
Davis & Elkins struck first with
Sydney Turner scoring on a sacrifice fly from
Jade Allee.
However, a pair of two-RBI doubles and a three-run homerun from Findlay in the top of the fifth, all but sealed the Senators fate, as the Oilers took a 7-1 lead.
Lapallo would get one run back in the bottom half with a bases loaded single. Allee would then single down the right field line, as Turner and
Amy Fincham came around to score.
The Senators would be unable to generate any further offense, sealing elimination after two games in the G-MAC Tournament for the second time in three years.
Lapallo went 3-for-3 at the plate but allowed five runs on eight hits in six innings of work.
With the loss, the Senators season comes to a close, finishing the season at 15-20-1, with a 10-9-1 mark in conference play.
