Ontiveros drove in her fifth RBI of the season.The Huntington Beach, Calif., native produced her sixth multi-hit effort of the year.Livingston contributed the 60th hit of her career.She tallied her 45th career RBI and 15th of the season with her second multi-RBI effort in 2019.The Riverside, Ill., native collected her 15th career double.Reilly notched the 95th hit of her career.She scored the 15th run of her rookie campaign.The Houston, Texas, native notched her team-best ninth win of the year.Duong recorded her 80th strikeout of the season.The Yorba Linda, Calif., native added her 45th career base on balls.Yoo documented her team-leading 40th base hit of the year.Duong took care of the rest by holding the Great Danes off the board in the home half of the frame to preserve the Army victory and force a split on the day.Two batters later, Reilly gave Army its first lead of the game with a two-out, two-run double that plated Duong and pinch runner Annie Brock.Katie Ontiveros got the Cadets on the board by stinging a single into center field and cut the Albany lead in half, 2-1.Army's five-hit seventh started with an Ally Snelling double to center before Duong advanced pinch runner Tessa Leman to third two batters later.The Black Knights clawed back in the final inning and erased the two-run deficit to extend the game.The home side added to its lead in the third when Miramontez scored on a double steal to make it 2-0.Albany scratched across the first run of game two in the bottom of the first with an RBI single by Aliyah Wade.Muffett tallied her 10th base hit of the year.Mattimore collected the 20th hit of her career.The Plainville, Mass., native also moved ahead of Morgan Lashley for seventh in all-time appearances (102).Poirier passed Carolyn Copcutt for fifth in program history in strikeouts (224) and ninth all-time in innings pitched (386.2).Drayton scored her team-leading 25th run of the season and drove in RBI number 20.It was the sixth time this season an Army player has recorded four or more RBI in a single game.Drayton tied her career-high with four RBI in the game, matching her total against the Great Danes on April 18 of last season. She added her ninth multi-hit game of the season and fourth in-a-row.The Clayton, N.C., native now leads the squad with six homers.Drayton posted her first-career multi-home run game.Albany would go on to score the next seven runs, including six in the fourth inning, to secure the game one victory.Drayton added her second long ball of the afternoon, this one plating three in the top of the fourth as Army recaptured the lead, 8-5.The Great Danes answered with two more runs in the bottom of the frame to draw even at five apiece.Taylor Drayton slugged her fifth home run of the season and second in as many weeks to add an insurance run for the Cadets in the top of the third to make it a 5-3 game.Albany trimmed the Army lead to one with a two-RBI single by Miramontez in the home half of the inning.Megan Muffett and Bianca Gonzalez provided back-to-back RBI singles before Ashley Yoo drove a sac fly to center for the final run of the inning to provide the visitors with a 4-1 advantage.The Black Knights had their first five hitters reach base with Carrie Reilly drawing a bases-loaded walk to even the score.Army provided a response in the top of the second by posting a 4-spot on three hits and three walks.The Great Danes earned the first lead of the game after Katie Falotico plated Mariah Miramontez with a groundout to second in the opening frame.The Houston, Texas, native allowed just one walk while striking out five Great Danes. Rookie Jolie Duong was impressive in the circle during game two, scattering four hits and two runs (earned) over 7.0 innings of work. Sophomores Grace Mattimore and Megan Muffett also recorded two hits on the afternoon. Sophomore Taylor Livingston earned a team-high three hits on the day, while senior Carrie Reilly and sophomore Ally Snelling provided Army with a pair of doubles. Sophomore Taylor Drayton remained hot at the plate with her fourth-straight multi-hit performance in game one, launching a pair of home runs while driving in four runs and scoring three times. The Black Knights dropped a 12-8 decision in a high-scoring first game before coming away with a 3-2 victory in the night cap. – The Army West Point softball team erased a two-run deficit in the final inning of game two to earn a split in its midweek doubleheader at Albany on Wednesday.
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