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April 9, 2008
Klonowski's Granny Powers Guins to Comeback, Split at Toledo

    Toledo, Ohio -- Freshman Kim Klonowski hit a two-out, pinch-hit grand slam in the top of the sixth inning of game one to catapult the Youngstown State softball team (6-19) to a 14-12 come-from-behind victory over Toledo on Wednesday afternoon at Scott Park. The Penguins lost the nightcap, 13-5.

    Klonowski's home run, the first of her career, is just the ninth grand slam in school history.

    Trailing 11-3 after four innings, the Penguins, who set the single-game RBI record, scored five runs in the fifth, five in the sixth and one in the seventh to rally for the victory.

    In the sixth, freshman Katy Potokar, who went 3-for-5, doubled to right-center field and advanced Kristin Bair to third. After McKenzie Bedra was intentionally walked, senior Jamie Fornal singled home Bair to bring the Guins within three, 12-9, and set up Klonowski's grand slam.

    Bair hit her first career home run - a three-run shot - in the top of the fifth inning to cut the Penguins deficit to 11-6. Bethany Hafley's single to center plated Bedra and Fornal to bring the Guins with three, 11-8.

    Toledo answered with a run in the bottom of the fifth to extend its lead to 12-8.

    The Guins return home to host Wright State, Saturday, April 12, at 1 p.m.

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