Softball Splits Double Header At Dowling
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BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. (April 2, 2013) – The LIU Post softball team split a double header matchup at East Coast Conference rival Dowling College Tuesday afternoon. The Pioneers took game one by a score of 11-9 after two hours and 35 minutes, then fell 3-2 in a game shortened due to darkness.
With the split, LIU Post is now 16-7 overall and 3-1 in ECC action, while Dowling is 15-8 including 4-4 in conference play.
In game one both squads' offenses showed up combining for 17 hits, but defense was at a minimum with a combined seven errors in the matchup. In the first, the Pioneers jumped on the board behind a bases-loaded RBI single by sophomore catcher
Aly Dzierzynski (Deer Park, N.Y.). Two batters later, freshman second baseman
Maria Palmeri (Middle Village, N.Y.) blasted a two-out grand slam for a five run first inning. Dowling battled back with three runs in the bottom half of the inning with back-to-back RBI singles by Jamie Laird and Samantha Laird.
LIU Post scored two more in the second courtesy of a
Nicole Hagenah (Commack, N.Y) hit by pitch with the bases full to force in
Kaci Hopkins (New Egypt, N.J.). Dzierzynski followed with a sacrifice fly to right field allowing
Liz Weber (Brightwaters, N.Y.) to score the Pioneers seventh run.
In the bottom half of the third, Dowling's Erica Fischetti drove a double to right center plating three Golden Lions.
Freshman designated player
Paige Swantek (Smithtown, N.Y.) added an RBI single in the sixth, and then Palmeri doubled to center driving in Hagenah and Swantek for her fifth and sixth RBIs of the game.
Dowling added a run in sixth, but the Pioneers added a run in the seventh when junior center fielder
Alexis Gonzalez (Hauppauge, N.Y.) scored on an Alisa Fjelstad wild pitch.
In the bottom of the seventh, two pinch-hit RBI singles by Ashley Seidel and Jillian Minix led to the Golden Lions cutting the Pioneers' lead to two, but freshman reliever
Quincy Lewis (Corning, N.Y.) was able to get Ariana La Puma to fly out to center field to strand two Golden Lion base runners.
Palmeri finished the game 3-for-3 with six RBI and a run scored.
Weber got the win in the circle, tossing six and one-third innings allowing one earned run (nine runs in total) and fanning nine. Lewis worked two-thirds of an inning earning her first save of the year.
Game two was the complete opposite showing by both teams with each team only registering four hits and neither team committing an error.
Dowling's Tammy Vermeulan homered to right field off sophomore hurler
Megan Salcido (Brawley, Calif.) in the third for the first run of the game.
In the fourth, Hagenah hit a sacrifice fly to right field plating Weber who led off the inning with a walk. But in the bottom half of the inning, Fischetti doubled to right center to score two Golden Lions to regain the lead.
The Pioneers added a run in the top of the fifth when Weber came up with the bases loaded and one out. Weber hit a tough ground ball to the second baseman whose only play was to get the out at second forcing in freshman
Kelsey McLaughlin (Lido Beach, N.Y.) who had doubled earlier in the inning.
With four and one-half innings in the books, the umpires called the game due to darkness.
Salcido took the loss, giving up three runs on four hits, striking out two and walking five. Four Pioneers recorded a hit in the contest.
Next up for the Pioneers is a home double header against the University of New Haven Wednesday, April 3 starting at 3 p.m.