Power And Pitching Lead to Stevens Sweep
STEVENS
The Stevens Institute of Technology softball team powered their way to a sweep over New Jersey City University (2-12) on Saturday with 12-0 and 6-0 wins.
The sweep makes three wins in-a-row for Stevens as they extended their record to 8-4.
Stevens 12, NJCU 0
After a scoreless top of the first, the Ducks jumped all over NJCU junior pitcher Ashley Latushko in the bottom of the inning. Senior
Danielle DeFeo walked to lead-off, and freshman
Jessica Rees singled with one out to put two-on. Up-came freshman
Kelly Klewicki who blasted her first career homerun to center to give the Ducks the early 3-0 lead.
Both teams traded zeroes in the second before Stevens padded their lead in third. With the bases loaded and one out, senior
Kayla Berardi singled to left to score junior
Jamie DeGennaro. Then after DeFeo reached on a fielder's choice, sophomore
Gavriella Risman-Jones singled to score two more, extending the Ducks lead to 6-0.
Stevens would put the game out-of-reach in the fourth. Klewicki singled to lead-off, then scored off a DeGennaro double to right. Sophomore
Sydney Spitz followed it up with an RBI single to score DeGennaro before junior
Noelle Mulligan singled to score two more. Mulligan later scored on a fielder's choice to make it 11-0 before freshman
Amanda DiLeo ended the scoring with a sacrifice fly to score Berardi.
In the inning, the Ducks scored six times off five hits and sent 10 batters to the plate.
Junior
Meagan Lorenz relieved Berardi in the fifth, and retired the side in order to give the Ducks the win. Berardi picked up her third win of the year and saw her ERA drop to 0.80. Risman-Jones, Klewicki, DeGennaro, and Spiz each added two hits, while Risman-Jones and Klewicki also led the team with three RBIs each.
Stevens 6, NJCU 0
Pitching was the story early-on as juniors
Brianna Sandone and Taylor Setar traded zeroes through the first three innings, before the Ducks finally broke through in the fourth.
After Spitz reached with one out, Senkevich crushed a homerun to left to give the Ducks a 2-0 lead. Sandone then worked-around a leadoff single in the fifth to keep NJCU scoreless, allowing Stevens to extend their lead in the fifth.
With the bases-loaded and one out, Mulligan popped-up a pitch to second. With the second-baseman's back to home, freshman
Gina Schnecker alertly tagged, and scored easily to extend the lead to 3-0. DeGennaro kept the rally going in the next at-bat with a single to left to score DeFeo.
The runs were plenty for Sandone who retired the side in the sixth. In the bottom of the inning, the Ducks added one more when sophomore
Oriana DeFeo-Peterson singled up the middle to score Senkevich, giving Stevens the 6-0 lead that they would go-on to win by.
Sandone struck-out five in the complete-game effort to earn her team-leading fifth win of the season. DeFeo, DeGennaro, and Senkevich each added two hits, while DeFeo-Peterson and Senkevich led all run-producers with two RBIs each.
HOUGHTON
In games that were just scheduled Friday after weather forced two late cancellations, the Highlanders lost on the road to Thiel College, 10-3 and 5-0, in a softball double-header on Saturday.
Game one featured a six-run second innings that gave the hosts a 6-0 lead. Thiel added another run in the fifth, before the Highlanders scored three runs in the top of the six to pull within 7-3.
Adrean Tiffany (Loweville, NY, Loweville Academy),
Morgan York (Canisteo, NY, Canisteo-Greenwood) and
Sarah Beirne (Port Jervis, NY, Port Jervis) scored the three runs.
Samantha Herrick (Canisteo, NY, Canisteo-Greenwood) had the only Highlander hit in the inning.
Thiel closed the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
York went the distance on the mound, allowing 10 runs on 13 hits.
Game two was a no-hitter for Thiel pitcher Morgan White. Four Thiel runs in the bottom of the first gave the hosts control early and White did the rest. Thiel added a single run in the fifth for the final margin.
Julianna Evans (Lehighton, PA, Lehighton Area) and York split time on the mound for the Highlanders.