Women's Softball End Exhibition Schedule by Splitting with Windsor
Windsor, ON – The St. Clair College Women's Softball team ended their exhibition schedule this past weekend with a home and home split going 2-2 over four games with the University of Windsor Club program. The Lancers hosted a pair Friday evening at Mic Mac Park with the Saints dropping the opener 3-2 in eight innings but then rebounded for a 7-2 victory. The 4-game set finished Sunday at the St. Clair SportsPark which saw more competitive action with the Saints falling 6-4 before prevailing 5-4 in eight innings.
Trailing 2-0 in the 5th inning of the opener on Friday St. Clair used a 2-RBI single by Ashley-Rae Brill (LaSalle, ON/St. Thomas of Villanova) that eventually sent the game to an extra frame where the Lancers scored their international tie-breaker runner on an error. Judy Lafleur (Essex, ON/Essex District) had a pair of hits in the loss for the Saints.
Lafleur kept her hot bat going in the second game on Friday with three hits and scored three times while Chloe Cole (LaSalle, ON/St. Thomas of Villanova) recorded three RBI on her two hits for St. Clair. Reese Grondin (LaSalle, ON/St. Thomas of Villanova) had a solo home run with Molly Cacilhas (Essex, ON/Essex District) and Kamryn Coombs (Atwood, ON) each contributing two hits with a run scored. Cacilhas helped her cause on the pitching strip who worked three hitless and scoreless innings in relief to pick up a save. St. Clair starter Ashton Fong (Colwood, BC) earned the win in four innings of work giving up a pair of runs on five hits while striking out four Lancers.
In the opening game Sunday afternoon, the Saints could not hold down a 4-2 lead after surrendering a pair of runs in the 6th and 7th innings. Ada Umerah (Maple, ON) and Ashley Marchand (Fergus, ON) each had two hits for St. Clair in the loss.
The final contest saw the Saints fall behind 4-3 in the 7th inning before scoring the equalizer in the bottom half and then secured the walk-off victory in the 8th. Zahnyah Jackson (Brampton, ON) led St. Clair offensively with three hits that led to her crossing home plate three times. Marchand also had three hits and added an RBI for the Saints with teammate Umerah notching a double as part of her 2-hit game. Fong secured the pitching win in relief covering the 5th and 6th frames but also re-entered to close out the 8th inning finishing with no runs across while surrendering only one hit to go with three strikeouts.
St. Clair opens their OCAA regular season next weekend with a doubleheader against rival Durham College (Oshawa) at the SportsPark on Saturday. The homestand finishes with a doubleheader versus Sheridan College (Brampton) on Sunday. Game times both days are set for 1:00pm and 3:00pm.
St. Clair will be welcoming back the 2005 OCAA Championship squad who won the first Women's Softball Provincial title in program history for the Saints and this fall marks the 20th Anniversary of that accomplishment. The reunion recognition will commence at 12:45pm prior to the start of the Durham doubleheader.