April 30, 2008

Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score

Fairfield, Conn. - Sacred Heart's Megan Spehar allowed just three hits and she shutout the Stony Brook softball team in game one of a doubleheader Wednesday. The Pioneers won game one, 1-0, and held onto an early lead to take game two, 2-1. With the loses, Stony Brook drops to 26-20-1 (11-7 America East).

Sophomore Alyssa Struzenberg (Cooper City, Fla.) allowed just two hits over the first six innings of game one, but after striking out the first batter in the seventh, she walked Betsy Harvey. Struzenberg hit the next batter to put runners on first and second. Freshman Taylor Froelich then doubled to left centerfield driving in the winning run.

The Seawolves showed patience at the plate, drawing seven walks, but failed to capitalize on those walks, leaving 12 runners on base.

In game two, Sacred Heart pushed across two runs in the bottom of the third inning off three hits and one error, including an RBI single by Adrian Fitzsimon.

Stony Brook rallied in the top of the fifth, starting with a single by junior Kelly Oberto (Spring Lake Heights, N.J.) to center field. Sophomore Katelyn O'Donnell (Kingston, Mass.) then reached first on a fielder's choice that ended with Oberto being put out at second. A grounder to the pitcher advanced O'Donnell to second, who later scored on an error by Sacred Heart's first baseman, to pull the Seawolves within one.

Sophomore Jade Clare (Federal Way, Wash.), who went 2-for-3 in the game, singled in the top of the sixth, but that was the last base runner the Seawolves would get as Sacred Heart's Jen Russell retired Stony Brook in order in the seventh to win her 14th game of the season.

Stony Brook will host Manhattan tomorrow starting at 3 p.m.