STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The Stony Brook University softball team defeated Drexel, 10-1, in five innings on Saturday afternoon at University Field.
Gabrielle Maday picked up her 10th victory with ease thanks to an offensive explosion by the Seawolves.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Drexel started the scoring in the opening frame, scoring the game's first run on a throwing error from behind the dish. Abbonizio led the game off with a double and eventually scored from third after a throw to second was errant on a steal.
- The Seawolves answered with three runs in the home half of the first. Alicia Orosco and Kyra McFarland worked walks to begin the frame, scoring after a fielding error at second and a double play later in the frame. Naiah Ackerman plated the third run with an opposite-field single, scoring Kupinski.
- Maday stranded two runners in scoring position in the second, getting a strikeout and a ground ball to keep Drexel off the board.
- McFarland extended Stony Brook's lead with a two-run single in the second. After McFarland stole second, Kupinski singled to make it a 6-1 game.
- Corinne Badger singled home Kupinski and came around to score on a Julianna Sanzone double. Ackerman blasted a two-run homer to push the Seawolves' advantage to 10-1 in the second.
- Ashton Melaas pitched the fourth and fifth innings, retiring the side in order in the fifth to close out the run-rule win for Stony Brook.
STATS AND NOTES
- The victory was Stony Brook's 15th consecutive, matching the program's longest winning streak since winning 15 straight during the 2014 season.
- Stony Brook's 15-game win streak is tied for the third longest active streak in all of Division I.
- The Seawolves' 11 straight wins against a conference opponent is tied for sixth longest active streak in the nation.
- During its win streak, Stony Brook has outscored the opposition 93-19.
- McFarland extended her hit streak to a team-leading 17 straight games.
- Maday improved to 10-4 on the season and has earned the win in five of her last six starts.
- Stony Brook picked up double-digit hits, the 11th time this season the team has notched 10 or more hits in a game.
- The Seawolves have now scored double-digit runs four times this season.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"We brought a great approach to the field and put all three parts of the game together to earn an important win and the series," head coach Megan T. Bryant said. "Ten runs on eleven hits is so efficient and that productivity was key today."
NEXT UP
Stony Brook and Drexel wrap up the three-game series tomorrow, with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. at University Field on FloSoftball.
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