Dover, DE --- The Delaware State softball team was even with Delaware after five innings before a late game collapse in the opening contest of the Capital Classic at the DSU Softball Complex on Friday. The Hens combined for 12 runs in the sixth and seventh innings en route to a 13-1 victory over the Hornets. Delaware State also lost a 7-6 extra inning contest to Marist in its second classic contest of the day. The Red Foxes scored the winning run on a walk-off single with the bases loaded in the last of the eighth inning.

In the DSU/UD contest, the Hens scored on a sacrifice fly by Michelle Kenny in the top of the third inning. The Hornets tied the game when Jessica Chrabaszcz singled home Sha Tabor with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.

The score remained 1-1 until the top of the sixth, when Delaware put four runs on the board to take the lead for good. Kim Ovittore singled in the go-ahead run, while Kenny added a two-run single in the inning.

Delaware blew the game open with eight runs in the seventh. The big blow in the inning was a two-out pinch hit grand slam by Mary Ann Magee.

Kenny and Allison Borchers drove in three runs each for the Hens. Borchers and Kim Novak each had three hits for Delaware.

Tabor was 2-for-3 with a double for the Hornets.

Samantha Shawn pitched three innings of hitless relief to earn the win for the Hens. Brittney Ruark was tagged with the loss to Delaware State.

In the Delaware State/Marist contest, Katelyn Malloy's bases loaded single scored Mary Beth Pomes with the winning run in the last of the eighth inning.

The Hornets tied the game at six when Tabor led off the seventh inning with a solo homer, her fifth of the season.

After shutting down Marist in the last of the seventh, the Hornets failed to score in their half of the eighth inning.

The six-team Capital Classic will resume on Saturday with a total of seven games, four at Delaware State and three at the Dover Little Complex at Schutte Park.