SYLVANIA, Ohio -- Siena Heights softball player Lee Clinton broke the program's all-time record for stolen bases, reaching 32 on the season, during the Saints' WHAC doubleheader split with Lourdes on Thursday. The host Gray Wolves won game one, 4-3, and then SHU won game two in eight innings, 4-2.
SHU will return to play on Saturday with a non-conference doubleheader against Saint Francis (Ill.) at 1 p.m.
Game one: Lourdes 4, Siena Heights 3
The Saints fell in walk-off fashion after LU pieced together a 3-run seventh.
Clinton had two doubles and two runs. Avery Schellenberger added two hits and a stolen base. Liberti Fair had two stolen bases.
SHU took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Emma Fair's two-run single.
After Lourdes closed the margin to 2-1, Shyann Truax had a sacrifice fly in the third inning for the Saints' final run.
Truax pitched 6 1/3 innings, giving up two earned runs on six hits while totaling five strikeouts and three walks.
Game two: Siena Heights 4, Lourdes 2 (8 innings)
Truax batted 3-for-4 with a pair of home runs, including the go-ahead two-run dinger in the eighth.
Clinton scored twice and had two stolen bases. With her 32nd steal of the year, she surpassed Tonya Berta, who had 31 in 2013.
Liberti Fair added a 2-for-3 game.
A solo homer by Truax tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth. Liberti Fair had an RBI single to give the Saints a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
Lourdes tied the contest at 2-2 in the sixth.
Truax's eighth-inning bomb came with two outs and plated Clinton, who had broken the stolen-base mark earlier in the inning.
Winning pitcher Cassi Kieper pitched out of trouble in the seventh and eighth innings. She stranded the winning run at third base in the seventh and then recorded the final out in the eighth with two runners on.
Kieper gave up one earned run on three hits. She finished with 11 strikeouts and six walks.