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3-8 SB Recap
Connor Burress
5
Winner Kalamazoo KZOO 0-0
3
Franklin FRANKLIN 2-1
Winner
Kalamazoo KZOO
0-0
5
Final
3
Franklin FRANKLIN
2-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kalamazoo KZOO 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 5 6 1
Franklin FRANKLIN 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 7 2

W: C. Schihl (1-0) L: Kugelman, Zoey (1-1)

2
Kalamazoo KALAMAZO 1-1
3
Winner Franklin FRANKLIN 3-2
Kalamazoo KALAMAZO
1-1
2
Final
3
Franklin FRANKLIN
3-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Kalamazoo KALAMAZO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 1
Franklin FRANKLIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 8 1

W: Duncan, Lauren (2-1) L: J. Cook (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball |

RECAP | Walk-Off Game Two Win Highlights Opening Day at Behrens Field

FRANKLIN – The Franklin College softball team opened their home schedule on Saturday (Mar. 8) with two games against the Kalamazoo Hornets.
 
The Grizzlies (3-2) came away with a split in their first Behrens Field appearance, dropping the opener to the Hornets (1-1) 5-3 before winning a 3-2 10-inning thriller in game two.
 
Game One: Kalamazoo 5 – Franklin 3
The Hornets drew first blood with a three-run home run in the third and Franklin spent the rest of the opener playing catch-up. Franklin got on the board in the bottom of the third with an RBI single from Zoey Kugelman, but squandered a bases loaded scenario in the fourth and the Hornets tacked on two more in the fifth to make it a 5-1 game.
 
Molly Wallace singled in a runner in the fifth and drove in another with a fielder's choice in the bottom of the seventh, but the Grizzlies' rally in the final inning ended with the winning run at the plate.
 
Kugelman (1-1) went 5.1 innings in the circle, striking out four and allowing three earned runs to go along with a 2-for-4 performance at the plate. Wallace also went 2-for-4 at the plate for Franklin.
 
Game Two: Franklin 3 – Kalamazoo 2 (10 inn.)
Game two saw both starting pitchers tossing up bagels through seven innings and the game went to extras scoreless. The Hornets got the game's first run in the eighth but Franklin answered in the bottom of the inning with Kugelman knocking in Brooke Lipperd with two outs. Kalamazoo scored again in their half of the ninth but Franklin matched that run as Kendall Lowry drove home Wallace with an RBI double.
 
Franklin held the Hornets off the scoreboard in the 10th and loaded the bases with one out for Kugelman. The freshman made the Hornets pay with a walk-off sac fly, scoring Kaylee Stewart for the winning run.
 
Lowry went 2-for-4 to lead the offense and Kugelman recorded back-to-back multi-RBI games for the first time in her career.
 
Lauren Duncan (2-1) was brilliant in the circle, tossing all 10 innings and giving up no earned runs on four hits with three strikeouts.
 
Up Next
Franklin heads to Elizabethtown, Ky. next weekend for four games at the Transylvania Pioneer Classic. The Grizzlies open play with two games on Friday (Mar. 15), taking on Adrian at 10:00 a.m. and UW-Stout immediately after.
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