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Canisius CAN 1-3
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Winner USC Upstate UPST 8-1
Canisius CAN
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USC Upstate UPST
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Canisius CAN 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 0
USC Upstate UPST 0 4 2 2 0 0 X 8 14 0

W: DRERUP, M. (4-0) L: Herrington, Liv (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Falls to USC Upstate on the Final Day of the USC Upstate Tournament

The Canisius softball team scored a season-high four runs on a season-best eight hits, but it was not enough to overcome the host USC Upstate team on Monday, as the Golden Griffins fell to the host Spartans 8-4 on the final day of the USC Upstate Invitational in Spartanburg, S.C.

Canisius fell to 1-4 on the season with the loss, while USC Upstate improved to 7-1 on the year with the victory.

Canisius struck first, scoring three times in the top-half of the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. Senior Rosie Gomez drove in the Blue and Gold's first run of the day with an RBI-single, and moments later, the Griffs scored two more runs after freshman Tabitha von Kolen doubled to bring home junior Sofia Escoto and freshman Vivi Vargas.

The Spartans answered right back in the bottom of the frame with four runs to take a 4-3 lead, and then USC Upstate added a pair of runs in the third and fourth innings to make the score 8-3 in favor of the home team. In the seventh, Canisius senior Emily Ilano drove in fellow senior Alyssa Cloutier with an RBI-single back up-the-middle to cap the day's scoring. Ilano finished the day with a pair of hits, her first multi-hit game of the season.

Sophomore Liv Herrington made the start in the circle for the Griffs, where she allowed six runs, four earned, on 11 hits in 2.1 innings of work. Senior Toria Kover came on in for relief and tossed 3.2 innings, where she allowed two runs on three hits.

GAME NOTES
• USC Upstate has won all six meetings between the two schools.
• von Kolen picked up both her first career hit and her first career RBI in the game.
• Cloutier's two-hit performance gives her back-to-back multi-hit games for the first time in her Canisius career.
• Cloutier had two stolen bases in the losing effort, her third career multi-steal game.
• Ilano's multi-hit performance on Monday is the 10th in her college career.
• Junior Natalie Quonce recorded her first career extra-base hit with a double in the top of the seventh.

UP NEXT
Canisius will stay in South Carolina to play a non-conference doubleheader against Furman on Tuesday. Game times are slated for 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

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