TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The University of Notre Dame softball team dropped a 7-3 contest to the 18th-ranked Florida State Seminoles Saturday evening. The Fighting Irish battled back after falling behind, but couldn’t find the big inning it needed to overcome the deficit. The Irish fall to 23-16 overall, and 7-10 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Micaela Kastor started in the circle. The sophomore threw 1.1 innings, allowing seven hits, only one of which went for extra bases as she allowed six earned runs and suffered the loss. Alexis Laudenslager came on in relief, throwing 4.2 innings. The graduate student allowed six hits, one earned run and struck out three.
The Irish offense went for 10 hits in the contest, with four multi-hit efforts. Carlli Kloss led the charge with a 3-for-3 performance, with a triple and a run scored. Cassidy Grimm added a 2-for-4 effort, scoring a run. Karina Gaskins finished 2-for-3 with a walk and a her seventh home run of the year. Rachel Allen added two hits, driving in a run. Emily Tran added a single in the contest to round out the offense.
How It Happened
The Seminoles got the scoring rolling in the bottom of the second. Florida State strung together eight hits to score seven runs and take a commanding 7-0 lead.
The Irish responded for a couple runs in the third. Kloss got a rally going with a one-out triple and scored on an Addison Amaral sacrifice fly. Gaskins followed with a homer the other way to cut the lead to 7-2.
Notre Dame added another run in the top of the fifth. The top of the order got a one-out rally working. Grimm and Kloss hit back-to-back singles and a walk to Gaskins loaded the bases. Allen knocked a single to left to bring in a run and cut the lead to 7-3.
The Irish put runners on in the sixth and seventh innings, but couldn’t continue its comeback efforts.
Up Next
The series concludes on the ACC Network Sunday afternoon with a 4 p.m. first pitch.