March 24, 2007
Box Score - Canisius | Box Score - Radford
Washington, D.C. - The Georgetown University softball team lost two games today on the first day of the Hoya Invitational held at Guy Mason Field. The Hoyas lost 3-1 to Canisius in their first game and lost a 10-3 decision to Radford in the second game. In the other two games, Radford defeated Colgate (7-5) and Canisius beat Colgate (3-1). The Blue and Gray are now 6-22 and return to action for two more games in the tournament tomorrow.
Trailing 1-0 in the top of the fourth, GU loaded the bases with no outs on two bunt singles and a walk. Freshman Suria Bahadue (Miami, Fla./Monsignor Edward Pace) knocked a sacrifice fly to center field to score fellow freshman Jadig Garcia (Zebulon, N.C./East Wake) and leveled the game at 1-1.
Canisius answered right back and scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth to secure the win.
Georgetown fell behind in the first inning when Canisius' Cameron Norton laced a RBI single up the middle for the 1-0 lead.
Freshman Jennifer Connell (Roswell, Ga./Roswell) pitched six innings and allowed three runs on five hits and struck out six.
Canisius pitcher Lindsay Garbacz put in five innings of work and allowed one run on three hits. Reliever Juliette Bowers allowed just one hit off Hoya bats in two innings pitched.
In the second inning against Radford, with runners on first and second, a fielding error by Radford's right fielder, Anne Tatum, put sophomore Katherine Incantalupo (Forest Hills, N.Y./Townsend Harris) on first while senior Cathy Richter (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) scored and gave the Hoyas a 1-0 edge.
Radford came right back and scored a run in the bottom of the second inning to tie the game at one run apiece.
In the top of the third inning, a bunt single off the bat of Garcia and a free pass to Peters put Hoya runners on first and second with no outs. Freshman Olivia Newhouse nailed a two-run double to center field, scoring Garcia and Peters and giving Georgetown the 3-1 lead.
A four-run third inning gave Radford a 5-3 edge and they went on to score three runs in the fourth and one in the fifth and sixth innings for the 10-3 victory.
Freshman pitcher Sarah Kamenski put in six innings of work and allowed 10 runs on 13 this.
The Hoyas picked up five hits against the Highlanders. Newhouse went 1-for-3 on a double and recorded two RBI. Pinch-hitter Connell went 1-for-1 on a seventh-inning double to center field.
Georgetown returns to action tomorrow for the second day of the Hoya Invitational at Guy Mason Field. Georgetown will play Colgate at noon and await a second game based on the seeding breakdown after the round-robin portion of the tournament. The first game tomorrow pits Canisius against Radford with first pitch scheduled for 10 a.m. The third game of the day will feature the first and second seed as determined by seeding and the fourth game will be between the third and fourth seed.
