CLERMONT, Fla. – The Concordia-St. Paul softball team (6-7) collected another split as they defeated Slippery Rock before falling to Quincy (Ill.) (8-4) on Tuesday evening. The Golden Bears rolled past Slippery Rock 13-4 in the first game and dropped the second game 6-2 to Quincy.
 
Concordia-St. Paul 13, Slippery Rock 4 (6 inn.)
After a low scoring pair of games on Monday, the bats exploded in the opening game of the day on Tuesday. The Golden Bears hammered out 12 runs on 13 hits in six innings as five different hitters had multi-hit games.
 
Concordia got started right from the first pitch as they scored four in the top of the first and two in the second to build a 6-0 lead. Liz Jarosz opened up the scoring in the first with an RBI single, Haley Schanks added a sacrifice fly, Emily Shinn chipped in an RBI single and Elena Koncar roped an RBI double to put four runs on the board in the first. Jamie Fleischhacker brought home Teona Zepeda with a squeeze play in the second and Fleischhacker came home on a passed ball to extend the lead to six.
 
Slippery Rock fought hard to answer back as they scored four runs in the second to close the gap back to 6-4. Caitlin Baxter put them on the board as she drove in a run with a double and Lauren Hawley brought home two more with a single. Another run crossed the plate on a failed pick-off attempt before Concordia closed out the inning.
 
Elena Koncar gave the Golden Bears some breathing room in the third with a two-run shot to left to make it 8-4. The Golden Bears picked up three more runs as Schanks, Shinn and Navarae Honoroff all picked up RBIs in the inning. Zepeda delivered the decisive blow to enact the run rule in the sixth as she laced a single to left that brought in two more runs to make it 13-4.
 
Linzy Heim (1-2) collected her first win of the season as she threw a complete game, allowing four runs on 11 hits while striking out three.
 
Koncar led the way by going 2-4 with a homer, a double and three RBI while Nicole Thompson, Jarosz, Shinn and Zepeda all picked up two hits as well. The two-hit game was Thompson's fifth consecutive multi-hit game and ninth of the season.
 
Amber Galloway also chipped in offensively as she delivered a single in the sixth for her first career hit for the Golden Bears.
 
 
Quincy (Ill.) 6, Concordia-St. Paul 2
In the second game of the day, one big inning did in the Golden Bears as the Hawks put up four runs in the third to pull away. Jill Suellentrop delivered the decisive blow as she drilled a three-run homer to spark the rally.
 
Quincy got things going in the top of the first as a one out double set the stage for a Lindsey Greene RBI single to make it 1-0. Concordia didn't wait long to respond as Jarosz led off the bottom of the second with a double and Haley Schanks helped her own cause with an RBI single to tie the score.
 
After retiring the first two batters in the inning, Schanks ran into trouble in the top of the third as she allowed a single and a walk before an RBI single put the Hawks up 2-1. Suellentrop then launched the three run shot to make it 5-1.
 
Schanks (2-1) allowed five runs on five hits in three innings of work as she took the loss.
 
Concordia rallied in the bottom of the fifth as Kelly McKenzie doubled to lead off the inning and Nicole Thompson was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second with one down. Jamie Fleischhacker cut the deficit to three with a single as Concordia brought the tying run to the plate. Quincy escaped as the next two hitters were retired and the score remained 5-2.
 
The Hawks got the run right back in the top of the sixth as Rachel Scrum drove in the only run that reliever Stephanie Kappes allowed with a single.
 
CU put runner on the corners in the sixth but was unable to break through as Quincy retired the final five hitters to close out the win 6-2.
 
Kappes was solid in relief as she gave up just three hits and one run while striking out three in her 4.0 innings of relief.
 
Murphi Armstrong scattered seven hits for the Golden Bears as she allowed two runs with nine strikeouts in the complete game win.
 
Offensively, Liz Jarosz and Haley Schanks led the way as Jarosz went 2-4 with a double and a run scored and Schanks went 2-3 with an RBI. Jarosz finished the day with four hits as she broke through with a big day at the plate.
 
Nicole Thompson's streak of multi-hit games was snapped, but the freshman still managed to reach base twice as she went 1-3 and was hit by pitch in the game.
 
Concordia is off tomorrow before taking on #7 West Chester and Merrimack on Thursday.