{"id":188579,"date":"2026-05-10T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:35:12","slug":"mcdowell-trojans-vs-erie-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/188579\/","title":{"rendered":"McDowell Trojans vs. Erie Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/erie\/mcdowell-trojans\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McDowell<\/a> has gone  a perfect 10-0 against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/erie\/erie-royals\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Erie<\/a> recently and they&#8217;ll look to pad the win column further  on Tuesday. The Trojans are taking a road trip to  face off against the Royals  at 4:30  p.m. McDowell is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they&#8217;ve averaged 7.3  runs per game  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\">McDowell easily dispatched Warren on Friday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Trojans fell just short of Seneca by a score of  2-0 on Saturday. The Trojans&#8217; loss signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ID74dbcb7c4ea94b6a80f68c643fc21d21\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a0698fd4-d4ab-4183-bd70-d1e307b57e3a.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID5e8466014458423cbc41ab3c398602bc\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Bridget Zaczyk<\/p>\n<p>05\/09\/26 vs Seneca1205\/07\/26 vs Titusville1004\/28\/26 @ Fort LeBoeuf604\/24\/26 @ Harbor Creek704\/23\/26 vs General McLane10<a id=\"IDbc7a7d4957ef43d486d0e0df0001f15b\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/erie\/mcdowell-trojans\/athletes\/bridget-zaczyk\/?careerid=qk90o2786sprb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 2 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/erie\/mcdowell-trojans\/athletes\/bridget-zaczyk\/?careerid=qk90o2786sprb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bridget Zaczyk<\/a> spent all seven innings on the mound, and it&#8217;s clear why: she surrendered  just two earned runs on four hits and racked up 12 Ks. She has been nothing but reliable: she hasn&#8217;t  tossed less than six  strikeouts in seven consecutive appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">Mercyhurst Prep hit Erie with a six-run third inning  on Saturday, which goes a long way in explaining the final result. The Royals came up short against  the Lakers, falling  13-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> Erie saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/erie\/erie-royals\/athletes\/gabriella-briggs\/?careerid=suh4gvoua54n7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Gabriella Briggs<\/a>, who  went 1-for-3 with one  home run. Briggs also put up an  RBI, which was her first of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:6\"> McDowell&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 12-6. As for Erie, their loss dropped their record down to 7-11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:7\">Erie&#8217;s hitters will have their work cut out for them  on Tuesday. McDowell has been retiring batters left and right this season,  having  averaged 7  strikeouts per game. It&#8217;s a different story for Erie, though, as  they&#8217;ve been averaging  only 3.2  strikeouts. Will McDowell keep running through batters, or will the Royals buck the trend?<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:8\"> McDowell got the &#8216;W&#8217; in their previous meeting  back in April against Erie by a conclusive  18-0 score. Do  the Trojans have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Royals turn the tables on them?  We&#8217;ll have the answer soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDowell has gone a perfect 10-0 against Erie recently and they&#8217;ll look to pad the win column further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-188579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}