KENT, OHIO- The Red Flash snapped the Kent State Golden Flashes five-game win streak and split a Wednesday double header with their fellow Flashes, winning game one 5-4 and dropping game two, 6-2.
 
 
GAME ONE RECAP
The Red Flash struck early in game one off Golden Flashes started Madi Huck. MeKenzie Saban (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills) roped a double down the left field line, her 18^th of the season. Sierra McKee (DuBois, Pa./DuBois) brought her home with a shot off the scoreboard in left center field, her 10^th homer of the season. The Red Flash weren't done, Hayley Norton (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove) walked and Jordy Frank moved her to third with a double to right center. Kassidy Troxell (Navarre, Ohio/Perry) brought home Norton and sent Frank to third on a sacrifice fly to center that just missed going out. A passed ball scored Frank and the Red Flash hung four on the board early.
 
Christina Clark (Avon, Ohio/Avon High School) made the four-run lead stand up. The freshman, pitching just 45 minutes from her Avon, Ohio home, worked around a two-out double in the first before retiring the next seven Kent State batters.
 
Neither team threated in the second or third. Troxell led off the Red Flash fourth with another shot to center, this one clearing the wall for her second home run of the season, putting SFU up 5-0.
That proved to be the game winner as Kent State rallied back with four in the fifth inning off Clark. A hit batter, single, double and error helped the Golden Flashes climb with in one at 5-4. But Clark rose to the challenge and stranded the tying run at second to end the fifth.
 
Meadow Uncapher (Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant High School) relieved Clark in the sixth and side-stepped a hit batter and single to strand the tying run at second base for the second-straight inning. In the seventh, the freshman nailed down her second save of the season.  Uncapher worked around a two-out ground ball that kicked off a rock, over Cheyenne McKee's (DuBois, Pa./DuBois) head and out into right for a single, moving the tying run to third. However, the righty bared down and got a more traditional groundout to second to end the threat, and the game.
 
Christina Clark (Avon, Ohio/Avon High School) got her 10^th victory of the season, working the first five innings to earn the win. Meadow Uncapher (Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant High School) threw two innings of shutout relief to earn her second save of the season.
 
GAME ONE SCORING RECAP
 
T1| Saban doubled…S.McKee homered, Saban scored…Norton walked…Frank doubled to right center, Norton to third…Troxell hit sacrifice fly to center, Norton scored, Frank to third…Frank scored on passed ball, 4-0 SFU
 
T4| Troxell homered to center, 5-0 SFU
 
B5| Hard walked, Sborlini pinch ran for Hard…Cegledy hit by pitch, Sborlini to second... Anderson reached on fielder's choice, Cegledy out at second, Sborlini to third…Brownfield singled up the middle, Sborlini scored, Anderson to second…Brownfield doubled to left, Anderson scored…Turner reached on scoring error, Brownfield scored, 5-4 SFU
 
GAME TWO RECAP
 
Saint Francis loaded the bases in the first inning, taking advantage of two walks and a hit batter off Andrea Scali, the reigning USA Softball Pitcher of the Week, but could not score. Mikayla Bower (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport) got the ball to start game two. The Golden Flashes struck first in the nightcap, getting a one-out double to plate the game's first run. Bower got a grounder and flyout to strand a pair of runners in scoring position.
 
After a quiet second, the Red Flash tied things up in the third. MeKenzie Saban (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills) led off the inning with her second double of the afternoon and 19^th on the season, moving her to second on the SFU single-season list. After Cheyenne McKee (DuBois, Pa./DuBois) was hit by a pitch for the second time, Hayley Norton (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove) came through with a RBI double down the left field line, evening the game at one.
 
Kent State broke things open in their half of the fourth. Kent strung together five hits in the inning and took advantage of a fielding error to score five times to make it 6-1 in favor of the Golden Flashes. Meadow Uncapher (Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant High School) came into pitch in relief of Bower and surrendered just one unearned run in her two-and-a third innings of relief to keep the Red Flash in the game.
 
The Red Flash got some laste magic going in the seventh with Halle Marion (Middletown, Pa./Middletown) and Saban delivering singles to put runners at first and second. After a ground out and flyout, Norton came through with her second RBI hit of game two, a single up the middle to score Marion and make it 6-2. Saint Francis could get no closer as a ground out ended the comeback.
 
Bower took the tough loss, getting charged with three earned runs in her three and two thirds innings. Uncapher ran her scoreless total on the day to four and a third thanks to her relief appearance.
 
            GAME TWO SCORING SUMMARY
 
B1|Miller singled to left…Goth singled on a bunt, Miller to second…Browfield reached on a fielder's choice, Goth out at second, Miller to third…Brownfield doubled to left, Miller scored…1-0 Kent
 
T3| Saban doubled down the left field line, advanced to third on throwing error…C. McKee hit by pitch and stole second…Norton doubled down left field line, Saban scored, C. McKee to third…1-1
 
B4|Brancifort hit by pitch….Cader out on sac bunt, Brancifort to second…Miller tripled to right, Brancifort scored….Goth singled, Miller scored…Goth caught stealing out c to ss….Brownfield reached on error…Brownfield homered to left….Turner singled…Cledgy doubled to left, turner to third…Turner scored on wild pitch…6-1 Kent
 
T7| Marion singled….Saban singled, Marion to second…Norton singled, Marion scored, Saban to second…6-2 Kent
 
With the split, the Red Flash move to 21-27 on the season while Kent goes to 24-21. The Red Flash continue their n­­on-conference slate with Bucknell on Saturda­­y afternoon­­­. It will be Youth Day at the ball park, first pitch is at one p.m. with kids to join the Red Flash on the field for game two starting lineups and can run the field after the doubleheader.