April 5, 2007

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WESTMINSTER, Md. - Brooke Dixon hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to deliver McDaniel College an 11-8 win over Franklin & Marshall in the first half of Thursday's Centennial Conference double-header. McDaniel finished the sweep with an early jump scoring five runs over the first two innings, leaving the Diplomats with a 6-14 mark on the season. F&M opened it's Centennial slate with an 0-2 mark. McDaniel moved to 10-12 (2-2 CC).

Dixon's shot was the exclamation point on a Green Terror comeback that erased a 6-2 F&M lead after two innings. Robyn Jones (Titusville, NJ / Pennington School) drove in four of the Diplomats first six runs with a double in each of the first two innings. Her second inning double cleared the loaded bases.

McDaniel chipped away before tying it in the bottom of the seventh. Lauren Toomey cashed in on Karyn Curley's leadoff double, and Dixon's one out single with a base-clearing double to knot it at 7-7.

Jessika Mancino (Lancaster, PA / Hempfield) reached on a dropped fly ball to open the Diplomats eighth. Jones brought her home with a single that found it's way through the left side.

Curley tied the game with two outs in the bottom of the eighth when she brought home Kelli Workmeister, who leadoff the frame with a bunt single. Two batters later, Dixon ended it.

In the nightcap, three singles coupled with three Franklin & Marshall errors in the bottom of the first helped stake the Green Terror to an early 3-0 lead.

Doubles from Elfring and Feldman keyed a two-run second that drew the Diplomats within 3-2.

Samantha Reigel walked to lead off the bottom of the frame before Toomey's third double of afternoon pushed the lead to 4-2.

After moving to third on a sacrifice, Workmeister slapped a ball just over the reach of the third baseman to score Toomey and stretch the lead back to three.

Toomey ripped a one-out shot over the center field fence for her first collegiate home run, stretching the lead to 6-2.

A King two-out RBI single plated Rosemier, who reached on a single and stole both second and third.

Franklin & Marshall tacked on an unearned run in the fifth before grabbing one more in the sixth to set the final margin.

Jessica Feldman (Jackson, NJ / Jackson Memorial), Jones and Caitlin Elfring (Glen Rock, NJ / Glen Rock) all had five hits for the Diplomats, who rapped out 30 hits in the twinbill. The Green Terror had eight of its 24 hits go for extra bases, including all four of Toomey's hits.

Franklin & Marshall returns to action tomorrow when the Diplomats host Muhlenberg.

Dixon's shot was the exclamation point on a Green Terror comeback that erased a 6-2 F&M lead after two innings. Robyn Jones (Titusville, NJ / Pennington School) drove in four of the Diplomats first six runs with a double in each of the first two innings. He second inning double cleared the bases.

McDaniel chipped away before tying it in the bottom of the seventh. Lauren Toomey cashed in on Karyn Curley's leadoff double, and Dixon's one out single with a base-clearing double to knot it at 7-7.

Jessika Mancino (Lancaster, PA / Hempfield) reached on a dropped fly ball to open the Diplomats eighth. Jones brought her home with a single that found it's way through the left side.

Curley tied the game with two outs in the bottom of the eighth when she brought home Kelli Workmeister, who leadoff the frame with a bunt single. Two batters later, Dixon ended it.

In the nightcap, three singles coupled with three Franklin & Marshall errors in the bottom of the first helped stake the Green Terror to an early 3-0 lead.

Doubles from Elfring and Feldman keyed a two-run second that drew the Diplomats within 3-2.

Samantha Reigel walked to lead off the bottom of the frame before Toomey's third double of afternoon pushed the lead to 4-2.

After moving to third on a sacrifice, Workmeister slapped a ball just over the reach of the third baseman to score Toomey and stretch the lead back to three.

Toomey ripped a one-out shot over the center field fence for her first collegiate home run, stretching the lead to 6-2.

A King two-out RBI single plated Rosemier, who reached on a single and stole both second and third.

Franklin & Marshall tacked on an unearned run in the fifth before grabbing one more in the sixth to set the final margin.

Jessica Feldman (Jackson, NJ / Jackson Memorial), Jones and Caitlin Elfring (Glen Rock, NJ / Glen Rock) all had five hits for the Diplomats, who rapped out 30 hits in the twinbill. The Green Terror had eight of its 24 hits go for extra bases, including all four of Toomey's hits.

Franklin & Marshall returns to action tomorrow when the Diplomats host Muhlenberg.