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5
Winner UVa-Wise WISE 27-29
3
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 35-20
Winner
UVa-Wise WISE
27-29
5
Final
3
Wheeling Jesuit WJU
35-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
UVa-Wise WISE 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 5 7 1
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 10 3

W: Taylor Brandts (16-10) L: Chapman, Mallory (18-11)

Game Recap: Softball | | Chris Myers

Cardinals Tough Start Proves Too Much Against Cavaliers, Ends Breakout Season

TROUTVILLE, Va. – A tough Cardinals start proved to be too much to overcome Saturday. Wheeling Jesuit fell behind The University of Virginia's College at Wise by four runs and crawled back, before its comeback was not enough in a 5-3 final at the Mountain East Conference Tournament Championship.
 
The Cardinals pulled to within two runs, 4-2, on a Molly Welsh third-inning double and again the next inning, 5-3, when Victoria Scott lined an RBI hit. WJU put a pair on the sixth-inning bases, but could get no closer.
 
WJU completed its season at 35-20 and second in the MEC North Division regular season standings. The Cardinals 35-win total set a new program standard since the 2002 restart and their first winning campaign in eight years.
 
 "The coaches are proud of what this team has accomplished. The players need to be proud of what they did this year and the progress this program has made. We had a lot of great things happen this season," said WJU head coach Kelli Williams. "I hope the players come back ready next year to do bigger and better things."
 
All-MEC First Team outfielder Cassie Holstein saved her highest hit total for Saturday. The sophomore went 4 for 4, her first four-hit game, with a run scored.
 
Holstein helped WJU outhit UVa-Wise, 10 to 7, in the game.
 
Welsh laced the lone Cardinals extra base hit with her RBI double. Scott and Dana Achille recorded a pair of singles, while Morgan Stohlman had a 20-pitch at bat end in a single up the middle.
 
Pitcher Mallory Chapman (18-11) battled all day in the circle. The second-year player allowed seven hits and only one earned run of the five which scored. She also struck out five hitters in seven innings of work.
 
The Cavaliers (27-29) scored their only earned run in the top of the first, before they added three unearned runs in the second frame off a pair of Cardinals errors for a 4-0 lead.
 
In the bottom of the third, Holstein lead off with a single and stole second. Scott lined a hit up the middle to move the runner to third. Kelsi Thompson ground out to short for a RBI. With two outs two hitters later, Welsh drove the ball over the left fielder's head for a run-scoring double and cut the margin to 4-2.
 
After a fourth UVa-Wise unearned fourth-inning run, WJU answered with a single score of its own. With two outs and Marissa Cangelosi on base from a fielder's choice, Holstein singled to center. Scott belted a ball to left for a RBI single for a 5-3 score after four innings.
 
UVa-Wise, though, held WJU scoreless in the final three at bats to end the contest.
 
 
 
 
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