WILMINGTON, N.C – The Stony Brook University softball team fell to No. 2 Delaware and No. 6 Hofstra on day two of the 2024 CAA Championships.

GAME ONE: NO. 2 DELAWARE 3, NO. 3 STONY BROOK 0

• Alicia Orosco led the game off with a single through the right side off of Emily Winburn. She was doubled off first after a line drive off the bat of Kyra McFarland to second was caught.
• Delaware struck first in the home half of the opening frame when Boyet tripled and scored on a throwing error as she headed for third base.
• The Blue Hens added a pair in the second, accounting for all of the scoring in the contest. Delaware loaded the bases with no outs, but only managed the two runs. Mia Haynes allowed a two-out, run-scoring single but stranded a pair with a pop fly on the infield.
• Winburn retired 16 straight Seawolves before Alyssa Costello drew a base on balls. Orosco followed with an infield single, her second hit of the game, to bring McFarland to the plate as the tying run. She lineout sharply to second to end Stony Brook's lone offensive threat of the game.
• Ashton Melaas relieved Haynes in the sixth, working around a lead-off walk to complete a clean frame out of the pen.
• Stony Brook went down in order in the seventh inning and headed to the elimination bracket for the fifth rendition of the Battle of Long Island.

• Haynes and Hofstra's Julia Apsel battled back-and-forth to open the game, trading scoreless frames over the first three innings of play.
• The Seawolves were held without a hit their first time through the order before Orosco secured Stony Brook's first hit in the third inning. After McFarland reached on a fielding error, Apsel stranded the pair of Seawolves on the base paths with a ground ball.
• Hofstra scored once in the fourth inning. With runners on second and third, a bouncing ball through the middle of the infield saw McFarland and the runner from second collide, but after a review it was not ruled interference and the Pride gained a 1-0 advantage. Haynes worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam to keep it a one-run game.
• Stony Brook went down in order in the fourth and fifth innings.
• Hofstra tacked on an insurance run in the sixth inning, an unearned run that chased Haynes from the ballgame. Melaas entered in relief and inherited a pair of runners with one out, eventually stranding both in scoring position to keep her side within striking distance.
• Stony Brook put runners on in the sixth and seventh inning, but with the winning run at the plate and facing their final out, Stony Brook came up just short.