KISSIMMEE, Fla. - The Wittenberg softball team got the 2010 season started Saturday with a split outing, winning the opener with St. Francis by a 5-2 margin after a stirring rally, then dropping the late game with St. Benedict by a close 4-3 final score. The Tigers are 1-1 after one day, and continue the Rebel Spring Games Sunday, March 7.
Headlining the day's action was senior center fielder Cameron Catalfu (Loveland, Ohio/Loveland), who went 5-for-6 in the two games with three runs driven in on a double, three walks and one stolen base to finished the day with an .875 on-base percentage and a 1.000 slugging percentage. She led the Tigers off in both games, notching a single in the team's first at-bat of the year, and later in game one launched the game-winning, two-RBI double to break a sixth-inning tie with St. Francis.
Against St. Francis, senior Melisa Shock (Bellbrook, Ohio/Bellbrook) started in the circle and pitched the entire game, allowing two runs, both earned, on six hits, three strikeouts and four walks. Only one hit was for extra bases. In the second game, versus St. Benedict, senior Brooke Boswell (Hamilton, Ohio/Fairfield) got the start and the complete game. She allowed just one double among six hits, which combined to score four runs, all earned, with three strikeouts and two walks.
St. Benedict opened up the late game with a two-run salvo in the first inning. Both teams scored one in the third, and the Tigers came back to tie it up at three in the fifth inning, thanks to a two-RBI grounder up the middle off the bat of Boswell, hard at work supporting her own cause. Boswell finished the day 2-for-5. The Blazers broke the tie in the sixth on an RBI double and held the Tigers scoreless the rest of the way.
Senior third baseman Jade Chivington (Bellefontaine, Ohio/Bellefontaine) went 1-for-4 with an RBI in both games, and senior right fielder Haley Gerken (Logan, Ohio/Logan) was 2-for-5 on the day.
The Tigers continue their campaign in the Rebel Spring Games with two games on Sunday, March 7, first versus Albion at 9 a.m. and then 11 a.m. against Misercordia.