MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - The Stony Brook University softball team defeated Charleston, 3-1, in eight innings on Friday evening.

Senior Mia Haynes got the win for Stony Brook, her third of the season. The right-hander went all eight innings, giving up one run on seven hits, allowing no walks and striking out four.

Junior Alyssa Costello led the way offensively for the Seawolves, going 2-for-4 in the ballgame with a triple and an RBI. Sophomore Naiah Ackerman put together a noteworthy performance at the dish as well, plating two runs with a pinch-hit, go-ahead single in the eighth. Senior Alicia Orosco also contributed, going 2-for-3 at the dish.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Cougars opened the scoring in the second inning on a solo homer.
• Trailing by a run, the Seawolves scratched across a run when Costello tripled in senior Kyra McFarland with two outs in the fifth.
• The score stayed at 1-1 until the eighth inning, when Stony Brook picked up two runs on a pinch-hit single by Ackerman. Catherine Anne Kupinski and Corinne Badger scored, giving Stony Brook the 3-1 lead.
• Haynes retired the side in order in the home half, getting some help from Brooke Dye who started a double play from the hot corner.

• Haynes tossed her third complete game of the season, striking out four. All three of Haynes' pitching wins this season have come on the road.
• Ackerman made the most of her lone at-bat, producing her third multi-RBI game of the season with a two-run single off the fence in center.
• Costello finished 2-for-4 at the plate with a triple and an RBI. The triple was her second of the season and fourth of her career.
• Orosco tallied two hits as well, her first multi-hit effort of the 2024 season.
• Stony Brook improved to 2-0 all-time against Charleston.