WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (March 30, 2011) – Freshman Kayla Berardi and sophomore Molly Herforth of the Stevens Institute of Technology softball team combined to no-hit the New York City College of Technology Yellow Jackets over two games on Wednesday at the Weehawken Waterfront. They were the second and third no-hitters in program history. Stevens won the first game 18-0 before doing one better in the second, where the final was 19-0.
Both games were not in doubt from very early on. Stevens scored 13 runs in the first inning of game one, as the first 10 batters of the game all reached base and came around to score.
The Ducks added two more in the second and three more in the fourth before the game was called due to the run-rule.
To run down the game one lineup, Danielle DeFeo went 2-for-3, Sarah Parker had a hit and a run scored, Naomi Sacks went 3-for-3 with two doubles and four RBI’s, Clair Strom was 2-for-4 with two doubles and three runs batted in, Stephanie Senkevich was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two ribbies, Noreen Jordan went 2-for-3 with two RBI’s, Victoria Webber scored two runs, Sherri Rosenberg went 3-for-4 with two RBI and Lauren Hurley went 2-for-4 with three runs batted in.
Herforth pitched three innings to pick up the win in the first contest before leaving the game due to an injury. Berardi closed the door, striking out four of the seven batters she faced over the next two innings.
Berardi continued to set down the Yellow Jackets in the second game, with a two-out walk in the first as her only blemish. Of the 15 City Tech outs in game two, 11 were Berardi strikeouts as she raised her season record to 6-1.
Every Stevens batter in the second game had at least one hit. Freshmen Danielle DeFeo and Kayla Berardi both hit their first collegiate homeruns in the contest to highlight the game for Stevens offensively. Berardi’s was a second inning grand slam, giving her the extremely rare no-hit, grand slam game. DeFeo and Berardi both finished with three hits in the contest.
Hurley, Webber, Jordan and Krista Sticco all had two-hit games and Senkevich, Brianna Sticco, Jennifer Wojtys and Sherri Rosenberg each chipped in with a base knock as Wojtys and Caitlin Hawke made their season debuts.
The Ducks' current five-game winning streak is the longest in program history. The first no-hitter in program history was thrown by Amanda Petrocelli’10 in the Ducks’ first-ever home game, an 8-0 victory against New Jersey City University on March 26 of last year.