CLERMONT, Fla. – Anderson broke open a 1-all tie in the top of the seventh with three runs and the Suffolk softball team went down in order in the home half of the inning to seal the 4-1 decision in favor of the Ravens Thursday afternoon at Legends Way Park at The Spring Games. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 1, Anderson 4
RECORDS: Suffolk (5-5) | Anderson (3-5)

HOW IT HAPPENED
The team's traded runs in the second with Suffolk scoring on a pair of doubles. Delaney Sylvester, who doubled to center, came in on McKenzie McGrath's two-base hit to left to even the playing field at 1-all. 

Suffolk kept Anderson's runners on base in the third through sixth frames behind errorless defense and the finesse throwing of senior Ali Yamakaitis. 

Behind a walk and two Rams fielding errors Anderson quickly loaded the bases. From there, the a single to right brought in the go-ahead run, while fielding error by Ashley Zulla, Suffolk's third of the inning, let two more runs in two batters later to put the blue-and-gold in a 4-1 hole heading into the bottom of the seventh. 

The Ravens sat the Rams down in order to clinch the 4-1 Suffolk setback. 

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Yamakaitis went the distance in the circle with the senior giving up four runs, one earned, on 10 hits and one walk, while striking out six hitters.
• Kacey Kaelin earned the victory behind a one-run, four-hit, one-walk, two-strikeout performance. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Four different Rams accounted for Suffolk's four hits in Payton Sylvester (1-3), Delaney Sylvester (1-3), McGrath (1-3) and Grace Boehler (1-2).
• McGrath recorded Suffolk's lone RBI with Delaney Sylvester scoring the Rams' only run. 

NOTEWORHTY

• Yamakaitis sat down a season-high six batters.
• McGrath pushed her hit-streak to four contests. Over that stretch, the junior third baseman has tallied eight hits in 12 plate appearances (.667) with two doubles and three RBI. 

POST-GAME PIC

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk heads back to New England where it is set to open its home and GNAC slate Saturday, March 24 versus Rivier in a doubleheader at East Boston Memorial Park.