SOFTBALL SPLITS DOUBLEHEADER WITH STONEHILL
EASTON, MA - The Pace University softball team split a Northeast-10 Conference twin bill with the Skyhawks of Stonehill College on Sunday. The Setters took the opener 6-3, while the Skyhawks earned the split taking game two 3-0. Pace moves to 9-7 on the year and 1-3 in the NE-10, while Stonehill goes to 9-7 on the season as well and 1-1 in conference play.
Pace struck first in the opener as junior Christina Pane (Stony Point, NY/Cardinal Spellman) put the Setters up 1-0 with her RBI single in the top of the third that scored classmate Missy Dubey (Middlefield, CT/Coginchaug Regional), who singled to lead off the inning. Stonehill would answer with a run of their own in their next at-bat as Stephanie Folan's RBI double brought home Kristen Clark, who walked to open the bottom half of the third, tying the game at 1-1.
Stonehill would later take their first lead of the game, 2-1, in the bottom of the fifth on a leadoff homerun from Caitlin Flanagan. The Skyhawks lead would not last long as the Setters would take control of the game with a five-run sixth inning, to take a 6-2 lead. Junior Alton Frisbie's (Indian HIlls, CO/Conifer) two-run double drove in freshman Alicia Parlon (Norton, MA/Norton) and sophomore Kerri McLean (Woodhaven, NY/Archbishop Molloy). Frisbie would come around to score on an RBI single from Dubey. Sophomore Amanda Dague's (Spring, TX/Klein Collins) RBI single brought in senior Kelly Kinyon (Levittown, PA/Harry S. Truman), while Pane's second RBI single of the game brought home Dubey to cap off the five-run inning.
The Skyhawks final run of the game came in the bottom of the seventh inning on Ashley Langlois' RBI single that brought home Kait Mendall.
Junior Kiryl Shada (Pleasant Prairie, WI/Tremper) (4-3) picked up the victory tossing the complete game, allowing three runs on six hits, while walking one and striking out five over seven innings. Danielle Mason (4-3) took the loss going 5.2 innings, surrendering six runs on 10 hits, walking two and striking out three.
Pane went 3-for-4 for the game with a pair of RBI's, while Dubey went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with a pair of runs scored and an RBI.
Stonehill scored the first run of the game in the nightcap taking advantage of a pair of Pace errors to take an early 1-0 lead. The score would remain the same until the bottom of the sixth inning as the Skyhawks pushed two more runs across the plate to take a 3-0 lead on back-to-back homeruns by Courtney Young and Jaime Ippolito.
That's all the run support starter Katie Mottau (4-3) would need as she went 5.1 scoreless innings allowing just a pair of hits and a walk, while fanning one. Ippolito closed out the final 1.2 perfect innings to pick up her third save of the season and complete the two-hit shutout.
Freshman Christina Rescigno (Elmsford, NY/Good Counsel Academy) (2-1) took the loss going all six innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on four hits, while walking one and striking out one.
Pace returns to action this Wednesday, April 2nd, as
the Setters will travel to New Haven, CT to take on NE-10
Conference foe Southern Connecticut State University. First pitch
is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.