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.