March 30, 2011

Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score

Stony Brook, N.Y. - The Stony Brook softball team split a pair of games against Sacred Heart on Wednesday at University Field. In the first game, senior Colleen Matthes pitched a complete-game shutout to help the Seawolves to a 3-0 victory. Sacred Heart's bats came alive in game two, however, handing Stony Brook a 12-2 defeat in five innings.

Matthes did not allow a hit until the fifth inning in game one, and finished with only three hits allowed in the game. The senior fanned eight batters to pick up her sixth victory of the season. The Seawolves' offense produced six hits and three runs to give Matthes all the support she needed.

Sophomore Gina Bianculli (Oakdale, N.Y.) doubled in junior Lauren Maloney (Las Vegas, Nev.) to put Stony Brook ahead 1-0 in the second. The Seawolves tacked on two more in the third when junior Bernadette Tenuto (Audubon, N.J.) lined a double into the left-centerfield gap to plate freshman Jessica Combs (Hammonton, N.J.) and junior Alyssa Hawley (Spokane, Wash.).

The second game did not go according to plan for the Seawolves (9-13) as Sacred Heart (13-11) scored runs in each of the first four innings, including an eight-run outburst in the second, to earn the split. Stony Brook churned out four hits courtesy of Hawley, Combs, sophomore Taylor Chain (Gloucester, N.J.) and junior Suzanne Karath (Fishkill, N.Y.). With hits in both games on Wednesday, Combs extended her hitting streak to 12 consecutive games.

Chain slapped an RBI single up the middle to score Combs for Stony Brook's first run in the bottom of the first. The Seawolves did not score again until the bottom of the fifth, when Karath stole third and advanced home on a throwing error.

The Seawolves will be back in action on Thursday when they host a doubleheader against Iona starting at 2 p.m.