Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 VIENNA, W.Va.---The Wheeling Jesuit softball team earned an eighth seed at the 2013 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Softball Tournament. The Cardinals fell by a score of 9-1 to the top-seeded Falcons of Fairmont State University, and Glenville State College surged with a late-inning comeback for a 6-5 victory.
 
In the opening round game, Fairmont State established a 1-0 lead by the end of the first inning after a pair of doubles plated a run. The added a solo homerun effort in the third, two runs in the fourth and rallied for five runs in the sixth. Jesuit plated its only run of the game in the sixth inning as Lorian Tharp issued a one-out single to right field, and Angie Reddick blasted a double to right for a RBI.
 
The Cardinals managed four hits as Reddick doubled twice in a 2-for-3 effort, and Tharp and Jarah Ice both singled. WJU pitcher, Ashley Nichols, hurled 5.1 innings in the loss, allowing 11 hits eight earned runs, three walks and seven strikeouts.
 
In game two, Glenville State rallied for three runs in the first inning after Jesuit established a 1-0 advantage. WJU's Ice started the game with a single and Tharp singled behind her. A sacrifice bunt by Erika Jusko moved both runners into scoring position, and a RBI groundout by Reddick scored Ice. The Pioneers bounced back with three runs on four hits and two walks.
 
In the second inning, the Cardinals plated two runs to tie the game and followed with two runs in the fourth for a 5-3 advantage. Three fielding errors sent both runs across the plate in the second frame, and WJU scattered two singles coupled with two walks for the lead. In the fourth, Ali Smith opened the inning with a walk and Ice followed with a free pass, placing runners at first and second. Jusko issued a bases-clearing single for two RBI – Reddick added a single.
 
Jesuit held on to the two-run advantage until the last of the sixth inning when GSC surged with three runs on a pair of singles, a double and a WJU fielding error. Jesuit attempted to get the lead back in the seventh as Aleecia Sunagel worked a base on four pitches, but the Cardinals couldn't move the runners.
 
WJU pitcher, Nichols, earned the game two loss, allowing six runs, four earned, in six innings of work. She scattered 11 hits with four walks and one strikeout.
 
Reddick led the Cardinals' offense with a 2-for-4 effort and a RBI. Ice, Tharp, Jusko, and Sunagel added singles. Ice scored two runs while Smith, Victoria Vuljanic and Marissa Cangelosi plated runs. Tharp and Jusko had two RBI each, and Reddick recorded one.