HAMPTON, Va. — Stony Brook softball defeated Hampton, 10-0, on Saturday afternoon in Virginia.
Maddie Male tossed a complete-game shutout and
Nicole Allen drove in a team-high four runs in the victory.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- As they did on Friday, Stony Brook started the scoring in the first inning against Hampton. Kyra McFarland led things off with a single and later scored on a double steal.
- Male worked around a pair of two-out hits by Hampton to complete a clean first inning and maintain Stony Brook's early lead.
- Emily Reinstein and Kaiya Simpkins reached base safely in the second inning, but the Seawolves could not add to their lead.
- Stony Brook tacked on an additional run in the third, courtesy of poor defense by the Pirates. Alyssa Costello reached on a bunt as the leadoff hitter, advancing to second on a groundout and then scoring after a Hampton error on a ball that Madelyn Stepski put in play.
- Hampton put a runner in scoring position with nobody out in the home half of the third, but Male escaped with the shutout still intact.
- The Seawolves went ahead 3-0 in the fifth inning when Emma Scheitinger reached on an error, allowing Allen to score.
- Male retired the side in order for the second straight frame to send things to the sixth inning.
- Stony Brook opened things up in the sixth, scoring four runs on four hits. Costello, Allen, Stepski and Naiah Ackerman all plated runs in the frame. Stony Brook had a chance to blow it wide open, but stranded the bases loaded.
- A leadoff single in the sixth snapped a streak of seven straight retired by Male, but she set down the next three hitters to complete her sixth inning of work.
- Allen blasted a three-run homer in the seventh inning, extending Stony Brook's lead to 10 runs.
- Male faced the minimum in the seventh, closing the door on Hampton and finishing the shutout.
STATS AND NOTES
- The complete-game shutout was the first of Male's career. She allowed six hits, walked one and struck out two.
- Allen put together a four-RBI day, notching her first multi-hit game of the season and hitting the first homer of her collegiate career.
- Ackerman, Costello and Stepski all plated a run apiece.
- McFarland produced a four-hit day for the second time this season. Her 13 multi-hit games this season are a team high.
- Eight different Seawolves registered a hit on Saturday.
- The victory was Stony Brook's third straight, fifth in its last six games and fourth straight against a conference foe.
- With the win, Stony Brook improved to 6-5 in the league and has now won three of its four series in conference play.
UP NEXT
Stony Brook and Hampton wrap up the series on Sunday, March 30. First pitch is slated for noon from Virginia, streaming live on FloCollege.
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