Boxscore (Game 1)

Boxscore (Game 2)

MELBOURNE − Florida Tech swept Flagler College in a non-conference softball doubleheader Thursday afternoon at Dr. Nancy Bottge Field. The Panthers won both games by a run, 2-1 and 3-2.

Florida Tech snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 14-14 on the season while Flagler fell to 28-12.

In the opener, Amanda Bueno's RBI single in the third inning proved to be the game winning hit for the Panthers. Natalie Beach led off the inning with a double and two batters later, scored on Bueno's hit to give Florida Tech a 2-0 lead.

That would be all the run support Brianna Barth (8-8) needed in the circle. She pitched a complete game, scattered six hits, allowed one run and struck out two batters. Barth got 12 Flagler batters to ground out and another seven to fly out. She retired the first 13-of-14 batters she faced.

Lauren Cole singled home a run in the first inning for Florida Tech.

Four different Panthers had a hit.

Robyn Draper (Brampton, Ontario, State College of Florida) hit an RBI single in the sixth for the Saints. She had another base hit in the fifth. Katelyn Guinsler (Williston, Fla., Central Florida CC) hit a double.

Kelly Riddick (Hampton, Fla., Central Florida CC) (11-4) tossed a complete game, allowed four hits, two runs and struck out five. She walked five batters.


Florida Tech 2, Flagler 1 (Mar 24, 2011 at Melbourne, FL) (Game 1)
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Flagler............. 000 001 0 - 1 6 1 (28-11)
Florida Tech........ 101 000 X - 2 4 1 (13-14)
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Battery: Flagler - Kelly Riddick and Katelyn Guinsler. Florida Tech - Brianna Barth and Lani Ankiel.
Win-Brianna Barth(8-8) Loss-Kelly Riddick(11-4) T-1:37 A-93
2B FC – Katelyn Guinsler.
2B FT – Natalie Beach.
Weather: 80 deg.,mostly sunny, breezy

In the second game, after Flagler tied the game at 2-all on Lauren Bessent's RBI single in the top of the sixth, Florida Tech scratched out a run in the bottom half of the frame to hold on for a 3-2 win.

Barth led off the bottom of the sixth with a base hit and took second on a fly out to left, and proceeded to third on an errant throw by the Flagler left fielder. Two batters later, Lani Ankiel popped a ball up behind second base which dropped in between the Flagler shortstop and second baseman and Barth scored.

The Saints went down in order in the seventh.

Freddy Kraus (5-5) went the distance and scattered six hits and allowed one earned run. She induced 14 fly outs.

Lauren Cole went 2-for-3 with a solo home run for Florida Tech.

Donna Munafo (Satellite Beach, Fla., Brevard CC) (5-4) also pitched a complete game and surrendered four hits, one earned run and fanned two. She retired eight batters by fly out and another eight by ground out.

Sarah Albino (Adelaide, Australia, Florida State College-Jacksonville) singled twice for the Saints.

Flagler travels to Savannah, Ga., to face No. 23 (NFCA Division II Top 25) Armstrong Atlantic State University at 2 p.m. on Saturday (Mar. 26).


Florida Tech 3, Flagler 2 (Mar 24, 2011 at Melbourne, FL) (Game 2)
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Flagler............. 100 001 0 - 2 6 3 (28-12)
Florida Tech........ 000 111 X - 3 4 2 (14-14)
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Battery: Flagler - Donna Munafo and Katelyn Guinsler. Florida Tech - Freddy Kraus and Lani Ankiel.
Win-Freddy Kraus(5-5) Loss-Donna Munafo(5-4) T-1:32
HR FTS - Lauren Cole (3).
Weather: 82 deg.,mostly sunny, breezy