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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The rally monkey was out in full force in late April as our next moment comes off the bat of sophomore Adrienne Rahs (Bethlehem, Pa./Saucon Valley) in a non-conference softball doubleheader against Hood College.

Nearing the end of a long season and with the Centennial Conference playoffs looming close on the horizon, Gettysburg hosted Hood at Bobby Jones Field on April 22. The Bullets had won five of their previous six games coming into the series, including splitting with conference frontrunner Ursinus College just five days prior.

The afternoon started with little in the way of drama as the hosts plated four first-inning runs en route to a 6-1 win in the opening game. Sophomore Lanie Parr (Washington, D.C./Academy of the Holy Cross) limited the visitors to just two hits over six innings and junior Megan Lott (Bellsville, Md./Pallotti) posted three hits, walked, and scored twice.

After going down quietly in an hour and 20 minutes, Hood revved up the engines in game two, putting eight runs on the board in five innings, including seven in the fifth frame alone. Gettysburg needed a run in the bottom of the fifth inning just to keep playing.

Each of the first two Bullet batters went down quietly, but Lott breathed some life into the club by drawing a walk. Rahs came right up and ripped a pitch off the third basemen's mitt and into foul territory to put both runners in scoring position.

Gettysburg only needed one run to avoid an early end to the game, but senior Sarah Woodbury (Audubon, Pa./Mt. St. Joseph Academy) doubled her pleasure with a two-run smash to the right-center gap. The Bullets' third consecutive double, this time by sophomore Catrina DelGais (Airmonth, N.Y./Suffern), brought home Woodbury and cut the deficit to 8-3.

The score stood at 9-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh and final inning, and despite loading the bases, the Bullets were on the verge of going out with a loss with two outs on the board.

The top two batters in the lineup were up to the task as freshman Joy Hallfors (Mt. Airy, Md./Linganore) reached on an error to bring home the first run of the inning. Lott followed with a two-run single to cut the deficit to one with the go-ahead run on first base.

As Gettysburg's No. 3 hitter, Rahs always maintained her composure in the face of adversity, and it showed as she patiently waited for the right pitch to strike. Two balls and two strikes were set on the scoreboard before she fouled off an inside pitch behind the backstop.

Given a second opportunity at nearly the same pitch, Rahs decked the ball high into the air towards left field. The shot carried all the way to the fence, missing a home run by just a couple feet, and caromed back into the field of play. Lott raced all the way from first and touched home plate with the winning run.

The Bullets swarmed Rahs on the field as the stunned Hood players shuffled off the field. It was the most memorable moment from a 21-win season which saw the squad finish second in the conference and have a school-record seven players named All-Centennial Conference.