Lansing Community College softball keeps season alive with late rally at World Series
Lansing Community College’s softball team kept its season alive by scoring five runs over the final three innings for a 7-6 win over Delaware Tech on Wednesday at the NJCAA Division II World Series in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
The 12th-seeded Stars advance to face the loser of Wednesday’s late-afternoon winner’s bracket matchup between 3-seed South Mountain (Arizona) and 6-seed Jones (Mississippi). LCC's game against the South Mountain / Jones winner is scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday.
LCC took the lead with a three-run sixth inning against 13-seed Delaware Tech, going ahead 6-5 when Jenna Morse scored on an error by the shortstop. That Stars rally was kickstarted by Jillian Harris’ home run to center field.
After Delaware Tech tied the game in the bottom of the sixth, LCC scored the eventual game-winning run in the top of the seventh, when Harris scored on a throwing error.
LCC’s Morgen Ahlfeld pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh — after giving up six earned runs in the first six innings — to clinch the victory.
Harris and Halle Richardson led LCC with three hits apiece. Harris and Peyton Leman each had two RBI for the Stars.
This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Lansing Community College softball keeps season alive at World Series
