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The Oswego State softball team picked up its first conference wins of the season sweeping visiting Potsdam by the scores of 10-9 and 10-2 on Friday.
Erin Tracy (Sr., Pulaski, N.Y.) drove in the eventual game-winning run in the bottom of the sixth to give the Lakers a victory in game one. The nightcap featured
Marie Steding (Fr., Central Square, N.Y.), who turned in a solid performance on the mound and at the plate, pitching five innings and hitting 3-for-3 with two runs scored and three RBI. Oswego State improved to 5-27 overall and 2-14 in the SUNYAC, while the Bears fell to 8-19 on the season and 3-10 in the league.
Game one proved to be a slugfest between the two squads as they combined for 12 extra-base hits, including three home runs. The Lakers raced out to an 8-4 lead after the first three innings when Marie Steding extended the margin in the bottom of the fourth with a lead-off homer for her first collegiate long ball. Potsdam would not go away, though, as it got a run back in the fifth and received two-run home runs from Heidi Grebinger and Allison Smiddy in the sixth to tie the game at 9-9.
Oswego State started a rally of its own in the sixth when Nicole Ouellette (Fr., Castleton, N.Y.) got on base with a single. Steding advanced the runner to second when she tapped the ball to the first baseman, whose only play was to tag the batter. In the ensuing at-bat, Erin Tracy delivered an RBI-double to drive in Ouellette for the go-ahead run. Laker pitcher Halie Bloom (Fr., Commack, N.Y.), who came on in relief of Sarah Thayer (Fr., Winthrop, N.Y.) in the sixth, sat the Bears down in order in their last chance to give Oswego State the victory. Meghan Patterson suffered the loss for Potsdam.
The Laker offense continued to roll in the second game after turning three hits and two Bear miscues into three runs for the early lead. Potsdam answered with a run in the third to make it a two-run contest, but Oswego State had its first five hitters reach safely later in the inning to break the game open. With the bases loaded, Steding helped her cause by ripping a single with the bases loaded to score Sue Schoff (Fr., Little Falls, N.Y.) and Shannon Baker (So., Hannibal, N.Y.). Before the inning was over, the Lakers tallied five more runs to take a decisive 10-1 lead. The Bears got one run back in the fifth, but it would not be enough as the game was over courtesy of the eight-run rule.
Steding scattered six hits over the course of her five innings pitched, striking out three and walking one for her fourth win of the season. She also finished the day going a combined 5-for-7 with three runs scored and five RBI. Schoff had a strong day offensively as well batting 6-for-7, scoring four runs, and driving in two.
The Lakers close out the 2010 season against Plattsburgh in Oswego with the first pitch at 11 a.m.
