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Bandits complete sweep of the Dawgs

Despite a late rally from the Scrap Yard Dawgs, the Bandits pulled out a season-opening sweep with a 9-8 win on Saturday night.

"It's hard to (sweep an opponent) in this league ... so to start off our season with that definitely sets the momentum to where we want to go," said Morgan Foley (W, 1-0), who made her National Pro Fastpitch debut.

The Bandits jumped out to an early lead in the opening frame thanks to a RBI-triple that rolled to the right field corner off the bat of Emily Allard (2-for-4, 2 RBI, 2 R, 3B, SB). She came across to score two batters later on Megan Blank's RBI-double.

Allard drove in another run in the second and designated player Tatum Edwards (2-for-3, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 1 BB) followed up with a 2-RBI double to the left-center field fence.

Bandits starting pitcher Sara Moulton carried a no-hitter through 3.1 innings before Dawgs' left fielder Renee Erwin doubled, moving right fielder Christian Stokes to third. The bases became loaded on a walk by Brigette del Ponte and another walk to Nerissa Myers brought home the first run of the game for the Dawgs. Emilee Koerner later took a 3-2 pitch to straightaway center field for a game-tying grand slam, knocking Moulton out of the game.

The Bandits answered right back with two runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth on another two-RBI double from Edwards.

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