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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The Kennesaw State softball team continued its late season surge with a pair of Atlantic Sun Conference wins over East Tennessee State on Saturday, April 27 at Betty Basler Field. KSU earned a 1-0 win in game one, before dominating the Bucs, 8-1, in game two.
The Owls improve to 34-18 overall and 16-10 in the A-Sun, while ETSU falls to 13-34 and 1-24 in league play.
In game one junior
Angie Dascoli (West Melbourne, Fla./State College of Florida) broke the scoreless tie in the top of the fifth inning as she blasted the first KSU hit of the game for her sixth home run of the season to left center, giving the Owls a 1-0 lead.
Kennesaw State only needed the one run as junior
Amanda Henderson (Covington, Ga./Eastside HS) struck out seven in a one-hit complete game shutout to earn the victory. After a leadoff single in the first inning, Henderson (18-4) sat down 16-straight ETSU batters between the first and sixth innings.
KSU recorded three hits in the win, with senior
Jensen Hackett (Tunnel Hill, Ga./Ringgold HS) and junior
Bianca Durant (Douglasville, Ga./Chapel Hill HS) posting the other two Owl hits.
Katie Wolff (6-19) took the game one loss for the Bucs.
The Owls started off game two with a bang, plating five runs on four hits in the first inning, highlighted by a three-run double to right center from freshman
Caitlin Fowler (Flowery Branch, Ga./Flowery Branch HS) and a RBI double down the left field line from Hackett.
KSU added a run in the second frame as the Owls opened the inning with three-straight hits, including an RBI single to center field from senior
Sharon Swanson (Canton, Ga./Cherokee HS).
Fowler continued her strong play at the plate in the fourth with a two-run home run to right field, scoring Dascoli, who singled through the left side earlier in the inning. It was her second-consecutive game with a homer after she knocked her first career long ball in Thursday’s 6-1 win over UAB.
ETSU scored its lone run of the game on a RBI groundout from Mikayla Treadway in the fifth inning.
The Owls outhit ETSU 14 to three, but committed four errors to the Bucs’ one. Fowler led the KSU offense with a 2-for-4 performance plus five RBI and two runs to lead the KSU offense. Sophomore
Natalie Rhodes (Canton, Ga./Cherokee HS) added a 3-for-4 effort from the plate, while Dascoli, Swanson and juniors
Sara Sikes (Douglasville, Ga./Georgia) and
Carly Van Auken (Largo, Fla./State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota) each contributed two hits in the win.
Senior
Abbey Mixon (Canton, Ga./Cherokee HS) did not allow an earned run in a complete game outing for the win. Mixon (14-9) record four strikeouts and did not give up a hit until the top of the fifth inning.
Whitney Leon (1-5) dropped the game two decision for ETSU, who got a hit and a run from Casey Horner.
Kennesaw State and ETSU will wrap up the three-game series with a single game on Sunday, April 28 at 1 p.m. (ET).
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Kennesaw State is celebrating 30 years of intercollegiate athletics during the 2012-13 academic year.
