Box Score April 23, 2016

Final Stats

Stony Brook, N.Y. - The Stony Brook softball team (21-20-2) pieced together a three-run seventh inning rally to take a 5-4 lead, but it didn't hold as the Bearcats (25-12, 8-2 AE) scored two in the bottom of the inning to win 6-5 and sweep Saturday's doubleheader. The Bearcats won game one 12-3 in five innings.

Game One

Stony Brook jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the third inning after rbi hits from sophomore Chelsea Evans (Merced, Calif.), junior Lexie Shue (Lakewood, Calif.) and senior Melissa Phelan (Saddle Brook, N.J.). The lead was short-lived as Binghamton erupted for nine runs in the bottom of the inning, never looking back on its way to a 12-3 win in five innings.

Game Two

Trailing 2-0 in the top of the sixth inning, the Seawolves tied the game on an rbi double from freshman Irene Rivera (Sylmar, Calif.) and a two-out single from Phelan. Binghamton answered with two runs of its own in the sixth as Stony Brook headed into its last at-bat trailing 4-2. Senior Kim Ragazzo (Lawrence, N.J.) got the comeback bid rolling with a pinch-hit single to lead off the inning followed by a two-run homer run by senior Allie Pisciotta (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) to tie the score at 4-4. Senior Kellie Reynolds (Paso Robles, Calif.) singled in the next at-bat, moved to second on a bunt by senior Diane Caruso (Middletown, N.Y.), advanced to third on a passed ball, then scored the go-ahead run on a two-out single by Shue.

Stony Brook was a strike away from the win with the tying-run on second base when a close 3-2 pitch from Neales was called a ball. Binghamton's next batter, Sydney Harbaugh, skied a ball to shallow left. Caruso and Shue converged on it with the ball carroming off of Shue's glove and down the line allowing the tying and winning runs to score.

Notes

• Sallen was the game one loser, dropping her record to 14-11. 
• Neales relieved Sallen in game two, allowing two unearned runs to score, to fall to 7-7 on the season.
• The Seawolves and Bearcats combined for 41 hits in the doubleheader, 25 coming off the bat of Binghamton and 16 from the Seawolves.
• Stony Brook's top seven hitters in the lineup notched hits in both games.
• Caruso led Stony Brook with three hits in six at-bats. 
• Pisciotta moved into eighth place all-time in rbi with 90.
• The two losses means Stony Brook will lose an America East series for the first time since 2013, also against Binghamton.

Up Next

Stony Brook tries to avoid the sweep tomorrow with a game at noon.