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Softball - Sat, Apr 4, 2009
Huntington 2, Judson 1 - Box
Judson 12, Trinity International 4 - Box
 

ELGIN, IL. - Breaking their five-game losing streak, Judson University (14-12) won their final game of the Judson Softball Invitational with a 12-4 win over Trinity International. Judson fell in their first game of the day, 2-1, to Huntington University.

Huntington 2, Judson 1
Judson combined for only three hits to begin the day. Nicole Dimiceli, Samantha Gladen, and Danielle Curylo all had one hit while Lizzy Jacobson had the lone RBI. Virginia McAndrews took the loss despite having eight strikeouts. Judson players struck out 10 times in the game and left three runners on base.
 

Huntington scored one run in the first and third innings for a 2-0 advantage. Judson put their lone run on the board when Carrie Sensor scored on a Jacobson sacrifice bunt. Judson had a chance to tie the game in the fifth inning when runners were on second and third with two outs but the Eagles did not convert leaving both runners on. Judson went down in order in both the sixth and seventh innings.

Judson 12, Trinity International 4
Finally finding some offensive power in their final game of the invitational, Judson erupted for 12 runs as Judson had two home runs and triples. Concetta Lampugnano and Samantha Gladen each smacked a home run while Carrie Sensor and Victoria Perez collected triples.
 

Sensor, Nicole Dimiceli, and Kristin Krueger each had two hits in the win. The RBI were spread out as Gladen had three, Sensor and Nicole Dimiceli each had two, and Lampugnano, Jacobson, and Perez had one.

Judson played as the visiting team and scored three runs to start off the game. After Lampugnano walked to start the game, Sensor tripled to left center to score the first run of the game. Two batters later, Jacobson singled home Nicole Dimiceli and then two batters after that Perez recorded her triple scoring Jacobson to make it 3-0.

Trinity International answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning to take the one-run lead. That is the only time that the Trojans would have the lead as Judson scored six runs over the next two innings and then added three more in the top of the fifth.

In the second inning, Curylo stole home to tie the game at four. Lampugnano gave Judson the lead for good with a shot over the left field fence to make it 5-4. The third inning brought four runs to put the game out of reach. Gladen recorded three of the runs with her second home run of the year. Curylo scored two batters later when Trinity International had a throwing error on Krueger's bunt.

The final three runs came in the fifth inning to run-rule the game and end it after Trinity International batted in the bottom of the inning. All three runs coming with two outs, Sensor started the scoring spree with a single down the left field line to score Curylo. Nicole Dimiceli followed with a single down the right field line bringing in both Sensor and Krueger.

Alyssa Cook went five innings for the win and recorded five strikeouts and four earned runs.

Judson will host Trinity International, again, on Tuesday, April 7th, at 5:00 p.m. in CCAC play.