Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Baltimore, Md.  --  Senior Brea Kehr (Dundalk, Md./Bridgewater College) knocked a ball into the outfield to score senior Tawny Cevora (Norfolk, Va./Lake Taylor) to give Notre Dame of Maryland University's softball team a 6-5 victory in the second game of a Colonial States Athletic Conference doubleheader against Cedar Crest College. 

The Falcons got the best of the Gators in game one, taking the opener 12-2.   

Kehr led the Notre Dame offense with six hits, including one double, and tied Cevora with the team lead in runs scored.  Cevora also paced the team in runs batted in.  Sophomores Margaret Pedersen (Brick, N.J.), Naimani Staley (Silver Spring, Md./Montgomery Blair), and Wendi Winkelman (Baltimore, Md./Patapsco) each added two hits, with Pedersen also hitting a double on the day.  

In the second game, the teams remained scoreless until the visitors managed two runs in the top of the third inning.  Notre Dame would respond by scoring two runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game.  Freshman Meghan O'Connor (Oxford, Pa./Oxford Area) would walk to start the inning and would advance to third on singles by Kehr and Winkelman.  O'Connor would then get caught in a run-down between third and home plate, but would score the Gators first run of the game when the CCC catcher would drop a throw.  Kehr would then tie the game at 2-2 off a ball hit by sophomore Morgan Ward (Randallstown, Md./Western Tech). 

Cedar Crest would answer with a run in the top of the fifth inning to re-take the lead, 3-2.  Notre Dame waited until the sixth inning to tie the game back up.  Singles by Kehr, Winkelman and Ward would load the bases for freshman Jennifer Whiting (Perry Hall, Md.).  Whiting would earn a walk to send Kehr across the plate and make the game 3-3 heading into the top of the seventh inning. 

After a scoreless seventh inning, the teams would be forced into extra innings.  In the top of the eighth, the Falcons would score twice, taking their third lead of the game at 5-3.  Ward and Staley would both single and Pedersen advanced the runners into scoring position with a groundout to second base, for the second out of the inning.  Cevora would then hit a ball and due to an error by the CCC first baseman, would knock in both Ward and Staley to tie the game at 5-5.  

After O'Connor walked, the Gators had runners on first and second, bring Kehr to the plate.  Kehr would end the game by hitting the ball into the outfield to score Cevora to win the game for Notre Dame with a walk-off hit, giving the team a 6-5 win and their first CSAC victory of the season.  

Notre Dame will now return to action Sunday as they host Centenary College at Druid Hill Park.