Tartans Finish Shortened Season with Victory

(CLERMONT, Fla.) – The Carnegie Mellon University softball team finished its trip to Florida for The Spring Games on Friday, March 13 with a 4-1 loss to the University of Mount Union (11-2) and a 3-1 win against Skidmore College (4-5). The Tartans finish the shortened season with a 7-5 record.

The Tartans knocked around nine hits in each game with freshman Tessa Bruneau (Edgewater Park, N.J. / Holy Cross Prep) and sophomore Gwen Delacruz (Laguna Nigel, Calif. / Aliso Niguel) each collecting two hits in both games. Sophomore Emily Song (Mount Arlington, N.J. / Roxbury) had four hits on the day with three coming in the win against Skidmore.

Skidmore scored first with a run in the second inning but the Tartans answered in the top of the third. With one out, Song reached on bunt single and stole second. After another out, Delacruz got on base via a dropped third strike which also advanced Song to third base. A first-and-third situation led to a stolen base for both Delacruz and Song when the catcher's throw to second put Delacruz in a rundown which then scored Song.

In the fifth inning, Song doubled to left field with two outs and then scored when Bruneau slapped a dribbler down the first base line that was fielded by the catcher. Bruneau beat out the throw and Song advanced all the way home as no one covered the plate.

The third run of the game for the Tartans came in the top of the seventh when Bruneau again legged out an infield hit, this time to third base. A groundout to shortstop by Delacruz advanced Bruneau to second and freshman Emily Finger (Aurora, Ill. / Metea Valley) promptly doubled to left field to score her classmate for the final run of the game.

Freshman Adriana Agosta (Grosse Pointe, Mich. / Grosse Pointe South) earned her first win after entering the game in the third inning. Agosta scattered four hits and struck out one batter in five scoreless innings of work.