Box score (Game 1)

Box score (Game 2)

LAKE WORTH, Fla. − The Palm Beach Atlantic University Sailfish swept a non-conference softball doubleheader from Flagler College Friday evening at John W. Anderson Field. PBA won the opener 5-0 and took the nightcap 4-3 in eight innings.

Palm Beach Atlantic won its fourth game in a row and improved to 8-4. Flagler lost its fourth in a row and fell to 8-8.

In the opener, Ashley Jones (4-3) tossed a no-hitter and faced two batters over the minimum as she fanned 14 and walked two.

She got all the runs she would need in the fourth inning when Mari Stokes hit a two-rn double to left-center.

The Sailfish plated three more runs in the fifth, two scoring on bases loaded walks and the other on a sacrifice fly.

Stokes went 1-for-3 with three RBI and Caitlin Bouschet went 1-for-2 with two runs scored.

Kelly Riddick (Hampton, Fla./Central Florida CC) (6-5) went four-plus innings and allowed four hits, four earned runs, walked five and fanned six for the Saints.


Palm Beach Atlantic 5, Flagler 0 (02/26/10 at Lake Worth, FL) (Game 1)
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Flagler............. 000 000 0 - 0 0 1 (8-7)
Palm Beach Atlantic. 000 230 X - 5 6 0 (7-4)
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Battery: Flagler - Kelly Riddick; Jana Owen(5) and Katherine Cabrera. Palm Beach Atlantic - Ashley Jones and Erica Walters.
Win-Ashley Jones(4-3) Loss-Kelly Riddick(6-5) T-1:42 A-55
2B PBA – Mari Stokes.
Weather: Sunny, Cool Breeze
Riddick faced 5 batters in the 5th.


In the nightcap, PBA jumped out to an early 3-0 lead, but Flagler rallied to tie it with a three-run seventh.

Brittney Hatem (Hialeah, Fla./Wallace CC-Dothan) led off the inning by drawing a walk off Sailfish reliever Heather Laird. She took second on a passed ball and advanced to third when Katherine Cabrera (Hialeah, Fla./Miami Dade College) reached first on an error by PBA's shortstop. Kaley King (Jacksonville, Fla./Trinity Christian Academy) came in to run for Cabrera and stole second base. Hatem scored on an error by the shortstop. Heather Hill (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla./Indian River State College) drew a walk and both runners advanced a base on Andy Hay's (Land 'O Lakes, Fla./Polk CC) sacrifice bunt. Brittany Simmons (Ocala, Fla./Chattanooga State Tech CC) singled to left to score both runners.

After PBA went scoreless in the seventh and Flagler did the same in the top of the eighth, Jana Owen (St. Augustine, Fla./Florida CC-Jacksonville) (0-1) came on in relief for the Saints. She got the leadoff hitter, Stokes, to fly out, but walked the next batter, Chelsea Gravini. She took second on a wild pitch and then third on a single by Candace Horton. Owen uncorked another wild pitch which scored Gravini to end the game.

Horton went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored for PBA. Ashley Jones (5-3) went six and one-third innings and allowed one hit and fanned 10. She was pulled at the end of five innings, but came back in the top of the seventh to get the third out and surrendered a base hit in the eighth.

Kristen Chapman (Jacksonville, Fla./Sandalwood HS) started in the circle and went seven innings, allowed six hits and three runs.

Flagler takes on Lynn University tomorrow (Feb. 27) at noon in Boca Raton.


Palm Beach Atlantic 4, Flagler 3 (02/26/10 at Lake Worth, FL) (Game 2)
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Flagler............. 000 000 30 - 3 2 2 (8-8)
Palm Beach Atlantic. 002 100 01 - 4 7 2 (8-4)
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Battery: Flagler - Kristen Chapman; Jana Owen(8) and Kaitlyn Guinsler. Palm Beach Atlantic - Ashley Jones; Chris Donovan(7); Heather Laird(8) and Erica Walters.
Win-Ashley Jones(5-3) Loss-Jana Owen(0-1) T-2:25
2B PBA – Natalia Ojeda; Candace Horton.
Weather: Cool, Pleasant