Dartmouth Softball Splits at Rebel Games in Florida

Thursday, March 23

Orlando, Fla.

2:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Hartford

Dartmouth Softball Splits at Rebel Games in Florida

3/22/2006 7:00:00 PM | Softball

By: Dartmouth

March 23, 2006

Box Score

KISSIMMEE, Fla. - The Dartmouth softball team split its games in Florida while participating in the Rebel Games. The Big Green lost in the first contest to Wisconsin-Green Bay, 4-2 and defeated Hartford, 2-1. Dartmouth is 5-10 on the season and will end its spring trip with a game against Vermont tomorrow at 8:50 a.m.

In the first game Dartmouth jumped on the board in the third when Jess Reiten (Santa Ana, Calif.) reached base and then came home on a Katie Chifcian (Fullerton, Calif.) single. Kelly Fry (Marietta, Ga.) added another run for the Big Green when she hit Sarah Bankoff (Lynnfield, Mass.) home.

The Phoenix held Dartmouth to just one more hit, three total for the contest, while scoring two runs in the top of the fourth to knot the game at 2-2.

Angela Megaw (Bomoseen, Vt.) started the game in the circle for Dartmouth and was relieved in the fifth by Abby Reed (Barrington, Ill.). Reed held WGB scoreless until the seventh when Wisconsin-Green Bay broke the tie scoring two runs to get the 4-2 win.

Megaw finished with one earned run while Reed gave up two earned runs and struck out three.

The Big Green picked up its fifth win of the season by defeating Hartford, 2-1 in the second contest. Stephanie Trudeau (Spokane, Wash.) started the game in the circle and recorded the winning run.

Hartford got on the board first in the top of the third with Dartmouth answering in the sixth. Chifcian knocked an RBI double to score Bankoff and knot the score at one apiece.

In the bottom of the seventh with two outs Trudeau singled and advanced to second when Alicia Petryk (White Bear Lake, Minn.) singled. Megan Snively (Dallas, Ore.) was the Big Green's hero as she hit the ball into play and then reached on an error with Trudeau coming around to score.

Trudeau picked up her second win of the season by scattering three hits in the game giving up just one earned run and striking out six.