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Box Score 2 LA JOLLA, Calif. — The Wagner Softball team earned its first win on Saturday, after blanking Montana 6-0.
The offense struck early and often in the second game against the Grizzlies. The scoring started in bottom of the first inning, when senior shortstop
Payton Janicki singled in the first run of the game.
That's is all junior starting pitcher
Karson Zavala would need, as she would pitch seven shutout innings, giving up only 2 hits and striking out nine batters.
The Wagner offense wasn't finished however, as they put up five runs in the second inning. Freshman center fielder
Ava Nawrocki collected her first collegiate hit and RBI with one out in the frame, then after a pitching change, sophomore DH
Alayna Giampolo slapped a 2-run single into center field. With two outs in the inning, Janicki grabbed her second and third RBIs of the game with a two-out opposite-field single.
Zavala finished the complete-game shutout with an infield pop fly, and Wagner snapped its three-game losing streak.
The Seahawks would not find the same success in the second game of the day against Saint Louis. In the last game of the invitational, Wagner fell to the reigning A-10 Champions 5-3.
After freshman staring pitcher
Samantha Lotus gave up two runs in the second, the Seahawks tied the game in the very next inning. Junior third baseman
Sydnie Trujillo picked up an RBI base hit, and senior first baseman
Geanice Morales reached on an error which allowed the tying run to score.
Morales plated another run in the fifth, singling home the lead run, but the Billikens answered with three runs in the bottom of the sixth, all with two outs. The Seahawks couldn't respond in the seventh, and they finished the invitational 1-4.
Wagner will take the diamond again on Friday, Feb. 27, when it travels to Orlando to take on Dartmouth in the Charge On Classic at UCF.
