March 24, 2012
Box Score
Stony Brook, N.Y. - The Stony Brook softball team limited Hartford to just one run in two games on Saturday as the Seawolves opened conference play with a pair of wins at University Field. Stony Brook won the first game 4-0 and prevailed 3-1 in the second matchup.
Freshman Allison Cukrov (Irvine, Calif.) took the ball in the opener and hurled her fourth shutout of the year, allowing just four singles and striking out six. The freshman also picked up the save in the second game, her third of the year, with a scoreless seventh inning.
Stony Brook (16-6, 2-0 America East) pounded out 12 hits in game one and received multi-hit performances from five players. Sophomore Nicole Hagerty (Sicklerville, N.J.) got the offense going in the second inning with an RBI single to score senior Bernadette Tenuto (Audubon, N.J.). The Seawolves added another run in the frame when sophomore Nicole Schieferstein's (Seaford, N.Y.) single was mishandled by the Hartford centerfielder, allowing Hagerty to score from first.
Tenuto accounted for the Seawolves' third run in bottom of the third with an RBI single that scored freshman Shayla Giosia (Runnemede, N.J.), and Maloney added a fourth with a leadoff home run in the fifth.
In the second game, Hartford (4-16, 0-2 America East) opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first off Stony Brook starter Taylor Chain (Gloucester, N.J.).
The game remained scoreless into the fourth, when Hagerty drew a two-out walk to put the go-ahead run at the plate in freshman Lauren Kamachi (Surrey, British Columbia). Kamachi then blasted the ball over the left-field fence for her second homer of the season to put Stony Brook up 2-1.
The Seawolves again used the long-ball in the sixth to add an insurance run. Sophomore Jessica Combs (Hammonton, N.J.) lined a pitch off the top of the wall, but the ball had enough back spin to carry over the fence to put the hosts up 3-1.
Chain allowed only four hits and struck out four to improve to 4-1 on the year.
Winners of six straight, the Seawolves will look for the series sweep on Sunday at noon.
