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Box Score 2 March 13, 2010
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CULLOWHEE, N.C. - Western Carolina softball (3-14, 0-2 SoCon) dropped its first two Southern Conference games, and home games of the season, 13-1, 15-0 to Elon (13-4, 2-0 SoCon) Saturday at the Catamount Softball Complex.
Sophomore Chelsea Schaffer hit her third homerun of the season, and second in the last four games, to give the Catamounts an early 1-0 lead after the first inning in the first game of the day. Schaffer's long ball over the left field wall was a lead-off bomb to start the Catamounts' half of the first.
Elon tied the game with a homerun of its own when Pam DelPizzo hit a one out homerun in the top of the second to tie the game at one. Elon went on to score 12 unanswered runs in the ensuing four innings.
In the top of the fifth inning, the game was halted due to a band of heavy rain that crossed the area and resumed about 45 minutes later.
Sophomore Katie King (0-7) got the start in game one, and went 2.1 innings before being replaced by Jordan Fulton. King game up five runs, only one earned, on four hits and struck out one. Fulton went three innings allowing six runs, two earned, on four hits and Chere Monday closed out the top of the sixth.
The Catamounts struggled with six errors in the game. Schaffer and Fulton each had two hits in the contest. For Elon, pitcher Erin O'Shea got the win and improves to 5-1.
Game two was all Elon. In the shortened five inning game, the Phoenix scored in all but the final inning of the game. Elon posted six runs in the first and second inning and then one in the third and two in the fourth.
Amber Steinhardt started on the mound for Western Carolina and went one inning. She took the loss and falls to 2-4 after giving up 10 runs on nine hits. Monday tossed one inning and Bekah Burkett closed out the game, tossing three innings.
Fulton led the team with a pair of hits. Amber Hawkins and Colby Liles also had a hit as the Catamounts had four hits in the second game.
Elon's Lauren Taylor and Kari Pervell combined for the shutout. Taylor went two innings, to pick up the win and improve to 5-1, and Pervell closed out the final three innings.
Western Carolina and Elon will close out its three-game series on Sunday with a single game at the Catamount Softball Complex. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.
