May 1, 2004
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Junior shortstop Lauren Gobar's RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted No. 2 Army to a 2-1 come-from-behind win over No. 3 Colgate in an opening round game at the Patriot League Softball Tournament at Kaufman Field on the campus of Lehigh University.
The Black Knights (26-20) trailed 1-0 after Dorothy Donaldson, the Patriot League "Player of the Year," ripped a solo home run off Ashlie Christian in the top of the second.
Christian (9-3) threw shutout ball over the next eight innings, retiring the side in the final threw frames, to keep her unbeaten league mark intact in notching her eighth win. The senior right-hander, who scatted six hits, walked seven and struck out two batters, twice pulled out of bases loaded jams in the fifth and seventh to keep Army in contention.
Elena Isaac, the league's "Pitcher of the Year," held Army to just one hit over the first six frames before being touched for six hits over the final four innings in suffering the loss to drop to 15-7. Darcy Wilson led Army's comeback with a leadoff homer in the top of the seventh, her fourth blast of the season and career fifth, to tie the game 1-1.
Christian only once let a runner on base in the next three frames, that after intentionally walking Donaldson to lead off the top of the 10th. But a double play nixed that frame.
Army threatened in the eighth when Gobar ripped a single up middle with two outs, but Isaac retired the next five runners she faced. An error by the third baseman put Nikki Posey on base in the 10th for what would prove to be the game winner.
Posey moved around on a single by Abbie Gottscahall and fielder's choice before being delivered by Gobar, who ripped her team-high 20th RBI.
Army faces top seed and host Lehigh at 3 p.m.
