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MELBOURNE â€" Florida Southern and Florida Tech were able to play six innings of game one Saturday before weather forced a suspension with the score tied 1-1. The game will be resumed in the top of the seventh inning at 1 p.m. on Sunday, with the second game of the doubleheader to follow.
Each team had just two hits through the first 3½ innings, but Florida Tech had three hits in the bottom of the fourth for its first run, and Florida Southern had three in the top of the fifth for its first run too.
The Panthers scored their run with back-to-back 2-out hits by Nicole Miller and Jessica Callahan. Miller’s was a double into the right centerfield gap, and Callahan followed with a hard-hit single into right. Miller had stopped at third but came home when the throw to the plate bounced to the backstop. Ashley Montion then had the Panthers’ third straight hit with a single up the middle, and the Panthers tried to score another run but were thwarted by centerfielder Allasyn Lieneck, who threw Callahan out at the plate.
The Moccasins had been held to two base runners through the first four innings by Taylor Smith, both of them singles by Christie Bailey. In the top of the fifth though, Leah Pemberton led off the fifth with an infield single and took second on a ground out. After moving to third on a wild pitch, Pemberton scored when Lieneck singled into left. Jordan Alexander gave the Mocs another hit, but Smith kept the game tied when she induced Bailey to pop up to short.
Florida Tech stranded a runner at second in the bottom of the fifth and both teams went down 1-2-3 in the sixth before play was stopped. Heading into the suspension, Florida Southern had five hits off Smith, and Florida Tech had five off Brandi Jones.
