• Game One Score: Gannon 1, Lake Erie 0
• Game Two Score: Kentucky Wesleyan 2, Gannon 1
• Records: Gannon (3-3), Lake Erie (1-4), Kentucky Wesleyan (5-6)
• Location: Clermont, Fla. – Legends Way
• The Short Story: Gannon Softball split a pair of games for the third day in-a-row. The Lady Knights picked up a 1-0 shutout of Lake Erie before dropping a 2-1 heartbreaker to Kentucky Wesleyan.

• Game One Box Score: Click Here
• Game Two Box Score: Click Here

• Madi Beining (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) was sensational in the circle against Lake Erie on Tuesday.
• She began the game by inducing three ground balls in the first inning, retiring the side in under 10 pitches.
• Perich and Ingerick had back-to-back hits in the top of the third inning as Gannon made some noise but the runners were left stranded before any damage could be done.
• Lake Erie followed with two runners getting on base via errors with no outs in the bottom of the third inning. Beining buckled down and worked out of the inning without harm.
• Gannon finally pushed a run across in the sixth frame. Jackie Martinez (Phoenix, Ariz./Xavier College Prep) reached base as the leadoff hitter as Allie Salerno (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) pinch ran for Martinez, proceeding to steal second base.
• Rachel Tanilli (Gibsonia, Pa./Deer Lakes) stepped to the plate and crushed a double to left, plating Salerno (Click Here). Gannon went up, 1-0. 
• Beining continued to dominate. She closed out the game, striking out the final two batters for the victory.
   

• Four Lady Knights recorded hits, including two from Perich and Tanilli
• Both of Tanilli's hits were for extra bases.
• Salerno stole her first base of the season and sixth in her career.
• Beining pitched a complete game, allowing just two hits, no runs and striking out three batters.
   

• The last five games between Lake Erie and Gannon have been decided by one run, dating back to last season. Gannon has won four of them.
• Gannon pitched its second shutout of the season, with the other coming in a 9-0 victory over American International.
   

• Game two started much like game one. Kennedy DeMatteis (Boyers, Pa./Moniteau) picked up where Beining left off and was mowing down batters early on.
• Ke. DeMatteis retired the lineup in order through three innings, as her twin sister Kristina DeMatteis (Boyers, Pa./Moniteau) was behind the plate.
• Gannon got the bats hot in the fourth inning. Sarah Ingerick (Middlebury Center, Pa./Wellsboro Area) led off with a single to center field. Kherrin Morgan (Hamilton, Ohio/Talawanda) followed with a double to center, scoring Ingerick. Gannon took a 1-0 lead.
• Kentucky Wesleyan responded in the top of the fifth. With a runner on, Delaney Mixer drove a ball over the left-center wall to give Kentucky Wesleyan a 2-1 lead.
• Gannon threatened in the sixth and seventh innings, leaving a pair of runners on in both innings, but fell just short.
   

• Gannon out-hit Kentucky Wesleyan, six to three in the game.
• Perich and Morgan each produced doubles for Gannon.
• Tanilli recorded her first stolen base of the season and eighth in her career.

• Perich reached base for the sixth consecutive game to start the season.
• All three loses have been by two runs or less. 

• The Lady Knights return for day-4 of games in Clermont, Fla. on Thursday, Mar. 1.
• Gannon will take on Cleary at 9 a.m., followed by Kentucky Wesleyan at 11:30 a.m.
• Live Stats will be provided permitting working internet at the fields.

Look out, coming through! ????

Rachel Tanilli (Gibsonia, Pa./Deer Lakes) drives home Allie Salerno (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg) as the Lady Knights take the lead!

6th: Gannon 1, Lake Erie 0 pic.twitter.com/22fFbFkUi3

— Gannon Athletics (@GUKnights) February 27, 2018