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Melissa Rahrich circles the bases after a homer during Sunday's Game 1 win against Furman.
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Furman FUR 1-4
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Winner Stony Brook SBU 3-0
Furman FUR
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Final
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Stony Brook SBU
3-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Furman FUR 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 4 5 1
Stony Brook SBU 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 5 9 0

W: Bodrug, Dawn (0-0) L: Tufts (0-0)

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Radford RAD 0-7
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Winner Stony Brook SBU 4-0
Radford RAD
0-7
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Final
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Stony Brook SBU
4-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Radford RAD 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
Stony Brook SBU 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 5 0

W: Rahrich, Melissa (2-0) L: OAKES, R. (0-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Adam Rubin

Triple Threat! Melissa Rahrich Homers Thrice as Softball Remains Unbeaten

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Melissa Rahrich flexed her muscles on Day 2 of the Stony Brook softball team's season.

Rahrich produced a three-homer day and delivered a walk-off sac fly to cap the weekend as the Seawolves swept games against Furman and Radford on Sunday.

Stony Brook (4-0) swept a season-opening four-game weekend tournament at Winthrop University.

In the 5-4 win against Furman in the early game on Sunday, Rahrich produced her eighth career two-homer game and Bodrug escaped an inherited jam.

Rahrich, the two-time America East Player of the Year, delivered a tiebreaking two-run homer in the third inning. She then delivered a solo shot in her next at-bat, in the fifth for a three-run cushion.

Bodrug, who tossed a two-hit shutout in the season opener on Saturday against Bowling Green, this time inherited a pair of runners from Shelbi Denman with the Seawolves clinging to a 4-2 lead and none out in the fourth. Bodrug stranded both inherited runners. She ultimately stranded two runs in four innings of relief.

In Game 2, a 3-2 win against Radford, Rahrich delivered a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth. The Seawolves then won in walk-off fashion in the ninth on Rahrich's walk-off sacrifice fly.

Rahrich also tossed four scoreless relief innings to the win against Radford.

It marks the second straight season with a hot start for Stony Brook. Last year, the team opened the season with seven straight wins and was the last remaining unbeaten team in Division I.

"Today I went out looking for two more wins so we could come back 4-0," Rahrich said. "At the plate I just wanted to build off of Saturday, and some days just feel better than others. Second game we were running out of time, so I went up taking my hacks."

Stony Brook returns to action next weekend with a three-game series at Towson.
 
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