CONWAY, SC — The Beach Chicken Brawl came to a close on Sunday, with HCU dropping a pair of games to finish the weekend. The Huskies fell 7-4 to Canisius in the opener, then were beaten 9-1 by host Coastal Carolina in the day's second game at St. John Stadium.
GAME 1
Canisius (9-8) put up four runs in the first three innings off of freshman starter Abby Prasifka and never looked back in taking a 7-4 victory in the first game.
CU starter Megan Guise had a sac fly in the first and Sophia Recrosio added an RBI single in the second before an HCU error plated the third run. Nicole Rivait made the score 4-0 in the third with an RBI single.
Guise would aid her own cause in the fifth with a two-run blast to left center and Rivait followed with a solo shot to put the Griffs up 7-0.
The Huskies tried to climb back into it, pushing across four runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Autumn Sydlik walked to start the frame, and
Mackenzie Morris singled with one out to put two on.
Avery Drake followed with a single to score Sydlik and get HCU on the board. The Huskies would see three runs cross the dish on two consecutive wild pitches, closing the gap to 7-4.
Drake registered her first career three-hit game to lead the HCU offense, going 3-4 with a run and an RBI.
AB Garcia chipped in two hits and a run for the Huskies.
Addy Prasifka suffered the loss to drop to 0-3 on the season, going three innings and giving up four runs.
Lyndie Swanson finished things off, going four innings with four strikeouts.
Guise led Canisius in the circle and the batters' box. She went 5 innings, scattering six hits with four strikeouts to earn her second win over the Huskies on the weekend, and went 1-3 with her third homer of the season and three RBI.
Alexis Churchill picked up her fourth save with two innings of one-hit relief. Nicole Rivalt aided the 10-hit offense by going 3-4 with two runs and two RBI.
GAME 2
The host Chanticleers (23-3) exploded out of the gates with a four-run first and went on to hand the Huskies a 9-1 run-rule loss in HCU's final game in the tournament.
Delaney Keith got CCU on the board with a RBI double, and a three-run blast to right field by Keirstin Roose made the score 4-0.
The Chants added three more in the third. Iyanla DeJesus hit her second homer in as many days off HCU, this time a two-run jack to center. Livi Payne had a sac fly to make the score 7-0.
Riley Zana hit a two-run dinger in the fourth to push the Chants out to a 9-0 lead.
HCU avoided a shutout in the top of the fifth, as
Autumn Sydlik launched her second homer of the season, a no-doubter to left field.
The Huskies managed just two hits off CCU pitching over the five innings, with
Haylie Savage adding the only other base knock.
Katy Janes went four innings for the Huskies in falling to 4-5 on the season.
Mady Volpe allowed just on hit over four innings to improve to 7-0 on the season. Roose and Zana each had two hits, including a home run, to pace the Chants nine-run offense.
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NEXT UP:
The Huskies (9-15), now set their sights on Southland Conference play.
HCU opens the conference slate on the road this Thursday and Friday, traveling down the coast to take on rival Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
