2025 Softball Media Day photos
Knox College
Londyn Nelson drove in a run at the plate and pitched well out of the bullpen in both games.
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Winner Nazareth NAZ 3-1
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Knox KNOX 0-9
Winner
Nazareth NAZ
3-1
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Final
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Knox KNOX
0-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
Nazareth NAZ 4 4 0 0 0 4 12 11 3
Knox KNOX 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 2

W: Zembek, Avery (1-1) L: Hicks, Maddie (0-2)

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Knox KNOX 0-10
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Winner Middlebury MIDSOFT 7-3
Knox KNOX
0-10
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Final
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Middlebury MIDSOFT
7-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Knox KNOX 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 3 4
Middlebury MIDSOFT 6 2 2 0 0 1 X 11 11 3

W: E. Ye (2-0) L: Davison, Charlie (0-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

Spring Break Trip Begins with Two Losses for Softball

Londyn Nelson was solid out of the bullpen in both games

CLERMONT, Fla. — Playing its first two of 10 games while on its spring break trip in Florida, the Knox softball team suffered a pair of losses to Nazareth University and Middlebury College on Tuesday by scores of 12-2 and 11-4, respectively. The Prairie Fire fell to 0-10 on the season while Nazareth improved to 3-1 and the Panthers to 7-3.

Nazareth wasted no time in establishing itself in the first game of the day, scoring four runs in each of the first two frames. The big blow in the first was a three-run double, and the Golden Flyers hit back-to-back home runs in the second, the first a three-run blast.

Knox clawed out a run in the second and third innings. Fifth-year Londyn Nelson provided an RBI single in the second — the Prairie Fire's lone hit of the contest — and a walk to first-year Chelsea McKee turned into a run thanks to a pair of Nazareth errors in the third.

Nelson, who had come on in relief in the second, twirled three scoreless innings before getting touched for four in the sixth. And when Knox failed to score in the bottom half, the game ended due to the run rule.

Avery Zembeck (1-1) picked up the complete-game victory, yielding two unearned runs on one hit and one walk while striking out six.

Middlebury followed the same game plan, tallying six runs in the bottom of the first and two more in the second to jump out to an 8-0 lead. Fifth-year Haylee Carpenter and senior Maddie Poetzinger got two of those runs back with each driving in a run in the third.

The Panthers got those runs back in their half of the third, only to have fifth-year Taylynn Kizer deliver a two-run single in the fourth. But aside from a solitary Middlebury run in the sixth, that was the end of the scoring. Nelson was solid in relief once again, holding Middlebury hitless over 3.1 innings while surrending just one run and striking out two.

Next up for the Prairie Fire at THE Spring Games will be showdowns with Gallaudet University (2-12) at 2 p.m. (EDT) and Brockport State (2-4) at 4:30 p.m. (EDT) at Legends Way Ballfields in Clermont.

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