March 20, 2004

Box Score

Dover, Del. - Despite a monster day at the plate from Jane Stein, the Stony Brook softball team dropped a pair of games at the Mizuno Bash on the Beach on Saturday afternoon. The Seawolves fell 2-1 to Providence in the opener and 12-9 to Penn in the second contest of the day. Stein went 4-for-7 on the afternoon, driving in five runs while smacking two home runs.

With the losses, the Seawolves drop to 3-16 on the season.

In Game 1, Providence jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. The Seawolves tied it in the top of the third on an RBI single by Stein to score Jamie Neuner, but a solo homer by the Friars put them back up 2-1 and they held on for the victory.

Angela Andrews took the loss after allowing two runs on seven his while striking out five and walking one in six innings of work.

In Game 2, Penn jumped out to a 10-1 lead after two innings before Stony Brook began chipping at the lead. Stein belted a two-run shot in the third to cut the lead to 10-3.

The Seawolves did the most damage in the fifth, scoring five times to make it a two-run game at 10-8. Neuner drew a one-out walk and came around to score on an RBI single by Laura Bradford. Rachael Vogl singled to move Bradford to second, and the pair pulled off a double-steal. Kristen Brust followed with a two-out two-run double, before Hayley Durham ended the scoring with a two-run blast make it 10-8.

Stein added her second home run of the game, a solo shot, in the sixth, to pull SB within one at 10-9, but that was as close as it could get as Penn tacked on three more runs in the sixth to hold on for the win.

Stein went 3-for-4 in the game with four RBI and two runs. Brust and Durham each had two hits, two RBI and a run, while Bradford scored three runs and stole two bases.

The Seawolves return to action in the tourney on Sunday at noon.