Softball Powers Past Mercy In ECC First Round, 10-2
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BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (May 2, 2013) – After putting runs on the board in every inning but the third, the LIU Post softball team won the first game of the East Coast Conference Softball Championship with a 10-2 victory over Mercy College Thursday afternoon at the Softball Complex.
LIU Post, who will play game two's winner Molloy College on Friday at 10 a.m., improves its overall record to 45-11. Mercy slips to 26-24 and will face the loser of game two Dowling College on Friday at 12:30 p.m.
Sophomore catcher
Aly Dzierzynski (Deer Park, N.Y.) kick started the Pioneer offense in a big way with a three-run blast into the left field bleachers in the bottom of the first. Junior center fielder
Alexis Gonzalez (Hauppauge, N.Y.) plated sophomore right fielder
Samantha Miller (East Meadow, N.Y.) with a double to right center in the second inning bringing the score to 4-0.
Mercy finally got through with a single off the end of the bat of Shelby Johnson that squeaked through the infield allowing Shannon Forbes to score. The Mavericks tacked on another run in the top of the fourth with a homerun off the bat of Jessica Doria.
That would be all the runs the junior hurler
Liz Weber (Brightwaters, N.Y.) would allow as she held the Mercy offense at bay for the remainder of the game. Gonzalez added another RBI in the fourth with a single to right center to score Weber, and then the Pioneer offense awoke for four runs on four hits in the bottom of the fifth.
With the bases loaded and no outs, Miller singled up the middle scoring freshman second baseman
Maria Palmeri (Middle Village, N.Y.) who led the inning off with a single. Weber drew a walk in the next at bat forcing pinch runner
Kaci Hopkins (New Egypt, N.J.) to cross the plate. Two batters later Gonzalez smacked her fourth hit of the game scoring both Weber and pinch runner
Jessica Julich (Kings Park, N.Y.).
Mercy threatened in the top of the sixth, loading the bases with two outs, but Weber got the pinch hitter Courtney Lisboa to strike out looking to end the threat.
The Pioneers completed the win with a double to right center off the bat of
Paige Swantek (Smithtown, N.Y.). Pinch runner
Carly Chamberlain (Nesco, N.J.) came around from second base to score the 10
th and final run of the game.
Weber earned her 23
rd win of the season tossing the complete game while scattering four hits and two walks and fanning nine.
Gonzalez and Swantek finished the day 4-for-4 at the plate, while Gonzalez added four RBI.