• Final Score: Gannon 11, Mansfield 1 (5 Innings)
• Records: GU (26-12) | MAN (17-14-1)
• Location: Veterans Field – Quakertown, Pa.

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• The Gannon softball team recorded two late grand slams to power past Mansfield for an 11-1 win in the first round of the 2019 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament Wednesday afternoon. The Lady Knights will now advance to play Lock Haven on Thursday at 3 p.m.

• Mansfield got out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Joelle's Snyder sacrifice fly out to right field, scoring Alli McGovern from third base.
• Rachel Tanilli (Gibsonia, Pa./Deer Lakes) tied it up for the Lady Knights in third inning when she drove in Sarah Ingerick (Middlebury Center, Pa./Wellsboro Area) with an RBI single to left field.
• In the fourth inning, Lisa Szajn (Maple, Ontario/St. Joan of Arc Catholic) gave Gannon the lead for good with a grand slam to left field, her seventh homer of the season.
• Later in the fourth, Megan Dietrick (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon) made it 7-1 with a two-run single up the middle, scoring Tanilli and Maria Taliani (Cheswick, Pa./Deer Lakes).
• Taliani ended the game in the fifth inning with a grand slam to center field, her third home run of the year.

• Gannon recorded 16 hits, while Mansfield had just three.
• Ingerick, Tanilli and Kaity Stocker (Tipp City, Ohio/Tippecanoe) had three hits apiece.
• Szajn and Taliani had two hits and four RBI each.
• Dietrick had two RBI, her second multiple-RBI game of the year.
• Madi Beining (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny) tossed four strikeouts en route to her 15th win of the season.

• Gannon has recorded at least two home runs in 10 games this season. Gannon's 37 homers is the second-most in the PSAC. 
• The Lady Knights had 16 hits Wednesday, which is the second-most this season. Gannon's 11 RBI is also the second-most this year.
• Ingerick in on a 20-game hitting streak, while Taliani stretched her hit streak to nine games.
• Wednesday was Szajn's eighth multiple-RBI performance of the year, while Taliani recorded her seventh.
• It was Ingerick's 16th multi-hit game of the season.
• The Lady Knights won their third straight regular season PSAC Western Division title, earning the No. 1 seed in the West for the PSAC Tournament.
• Beining was named PSAC West Pitcher of the Week on Monday, while Ingerick earned Athlete of the Week accolades.

• With the win, Gannon advances to play Thursday, May 2 at 3 p.m. against Lock Haven.

SB: Some sights from today's win over Mansfield. pic.twitter.com/ydewcJFnwK

— Gannon Athletics (@GUKnights) May 1, 2019