{"id":172815,"date":"2026-02-28T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172815\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:57:27","slug":"softball-falls-to-elon-and-no-7-fsu-in-tallahassee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172815\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Falls To Elon And No. 7 FSU In Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The Dartmouth women&#8217;s softball team continued the Dugout Club Classic on Saturday at JoAnn\u00a0Graf Field, falling 3-4 to Elon and 8-0 to No. 7 FSU.<\/p>\n<p>GAME 1: Elon 4, Dartmouth 3<\/p>\n<p>Dartmouth opened scoring in their first game of the day, with <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/lauren-ben-ezra\/39661\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39661\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Ben-Ezra<\/a> getting things started for the Big Green by reaching first due to a fielding error by Elon&#8217;s second baseman. <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/olivia-schramm\/39670\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39670\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Schramm<\/a> singled down the right field line to push Ben-Ezra to third, then Schramm stole second while Ben-Ezra stole home. Elon evened the score in the second inning in a similar way, with Chloe Hatzopoulos stealing home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the third, <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/justice-malone\/39666\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39666\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Malone<\/a> got a rally going when she doubled to left center, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/faby-serna\/39671\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39671\" target=\"_blank\">Faby Serna<\/a> single. Malone advanced to third and Serna advanced to second on the throw. Schramm reached on a fielder&#8217;s choice, scoring Malone and moving Serna to third. <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sydney-herrmann\/41425\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"41425\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Herrmann<\/a> hit a sacrifice fly to score Serna, bringing the score to 3-1. Elon caught up in the bottom of the sixth, when Peyton Fitzgerald hit a two-run single, and won the game 4-3 with a walk off RBI single.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GAME 2: No. 7 Florida State 8, Dartmouth 0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Florida State jumped to a 5-0 lead in the second inning, which saw action from <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/isabel-kirby\/39675\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39675\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel Kirby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/charley-maddox\/41424\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"41424\" target=\"_blank\">Charley Maddox<\/a>. In the third inning, <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/samantha-gresham\/41423\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"41423\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Gresham<\/a> doubled to left, <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ashley-frantz\/39663\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39663\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Frantz<\/a> singled and <a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouthsports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/justice-malone\/39666\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"39666\" target=\"_blank\">Justice Malone<\/a> walked, but the three base runners were left stranded. The Seminoles put a sixth run on the board in their half of the third.<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the fifth, Gresham hit an infield single, then Frantz reached first on a fielder&#8217;s choice, but Frantz was left on base. The Seminoles sealed their victory with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth, bringing the final score to 8-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT:\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Big Green are back in action in Tallahassee tomorrow for the third and final day of the Dugout Club Classic. They will face No. 9 Alabama at 10 a.m.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 The Dartmouth women&#8217;s softball team continued the Dugout Club Classic on Saturday at JoAnn\u00a0Graf Field,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-172815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}