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Box Score 2 WASHINGTON, PA – April 28, 2018 – The Chatham University softball team split with host W&J on Saturday afternoon, falling in game one 13-2 (5 innings) before winning the nightcap, 1-0.
RECORDS: Chatham ends the year at 5-25 (3-15 PAC) while the Presidents are 12-18 (8-10 PAC).
GAME ONE (W&J 13, Chatham 2 – 5 innings)
AT THE PLATE: The Cougars managed just five hits as sophomore
Marissa Wightman (Cypress, Calif./Cypress) went 2-for-2 with one run scored.
Sophomore
Cassandra Gray (Allen Park, Mich./Allen Park) finished 1-for-2 with an RBI.
IN THE CIRCLE: First-year
Taylor Wisvari-Weir (Martins Ferry, Ohio/The Linsly School) earned the start and went two frames while senior
Samantha Crilley (Zelienople, Pa./Seneca Valley) tossed two innings of relief with three strikeouts.
GAME TWO (Chatham 1, W&J 0)
AT THE PLATE: Chatham enjoyed 11 hits and plated the game's only run in the top of the seventh, on an RBI groundout by first-year
Julie Swedberg (San Bruno, Calif./Capuchino).
Wightman, Crilley, first-year
Alexis Gonzalez (Riverside, Calif./Rancho Cucamonga) and sophomore
Holly Ackerman (East Rockaway, N.Y./Portledge School) collected two base hits apiece.
IN THE CIRCLE: Swedberg earned her second win of the season, going all seven innings with five strikeouts and just one walk.
For more information on the Chatham softball team, please visit gochathamcougars.com.
About Chatham Athletics
Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA is a member of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) and offers nine Division III women's sports and seven men's sports. The athletic program is housed on Chatham's historic and beautiful Shadyside Campus in the $18 million, 74,000 square foot Athletic and Fitness Center (AFC). Chatham University unveiled a renovated weight room on Sept. 1, 2017. Cougar athletes excel on the field and in the classroom, as illustrated by recent accomplishments such as 52 student athletes being selected to the 2016 Presidents' Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll.
Women's sports at Chatham include basketball, cross country, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track & field, and volleyball. Chatham added women's lacrosse beginning play in 2018 as well as women's squash, beginning in 2018-19. Chatham has added five men's sports competing this academic year: baseball, basketball, cross country, swimming & diving, track & field. Chatham added two more men's varsity sports beginning play in 2017-2018; hockey and lacrosse, as well as men's squash, starting in 2018-19 and men's soccer starting in 2019-20.
For more information, call 1-800-837-1290 or visit
www.gochathamcougars.com.
