Fisher Blasts Three Home Runs, Sets School Career Record in Softball's Sweep of AIC
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (Mar. 25, 2007) - Senior Jill Fisher went 6-for-6 with three home runs, and set the C.W. Post softball career home runs record in the process as the host Pioneers swept past American International Sunday afternoon. C.W. Post held on for a 5-3 victory in game one, before winning by a 10-2 count in five innings in the nightcap.
Game 1: C.W. Post 5, American International 3
Fisher (3-for-3) set the school record with her 23rd career home run on a two-run shot in the bottom of the first inning, pulling an 0-1 pitch over the right-field fence to score Melissa Medina (lead-off single) and give the hosts a 2-0 lead.
The previous career record for home runs was 22, and was held by Trinette Cossa (1998-01) and Summer Maddox (1999-01).
The Pioneers scored three more runs in the fourth inning to give starting pitcher Samantha Yodowitz (7 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K) a 5-0 advantage. Sophomore Megan Correia led off the inning with a double to left field, and moved to third base on a pinch-hit single by Shannon Kulnis two batters later. Kelsey Cooley brought home Correia on a single through the right side of the infield, before Fisher's double to the center-field fence scored Ashley Marchese (re-entered for Kulnis) and Cooley.
AIC got back one run in the top of the fifth inning, when Teresa Bonavita (1-for-3) lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to score pinch-runner Jen Gonyea. The Yellow Jackets then pulled to within a 5-3 score with a pair of runs in the sixth inning; Deanna Zanetti's RBI triple scored Michelle Franey, before Katelyn Elie (2-for-3) drove home Zanetti on a single to right-center.
Ashley Deegan took the loss in the pitcher's circle for AIC, allowing five earned runs and eight hits in 3.2 innings of work.
Game 2: C.W. Post 10, American International 2 (5 inn.)
The C.W. Post (11-7) offense exploded for 12 hits in game two, including four home runs. Freshman Christie Softy led off the bottom of the second inning with a triple, and scored on a wild pitch. Freshman Katie Fisher, Jill's younger sister, then doubled the lead when she hit a two-out home run to right-center field for her first collegiate round-tripper. The Pioneers would score three more times in the inning to take a 5-0 lead, with Medina (3-for-4, 2B, 3 R, SB) scoring on an infield error and Jill Fisher roping a two-run homer to right-center to score Cooley (1-for-3, 3 R, 2 RBI) and herself.
AIC (4-10) scored a pair of runs off starting pitcher Katie Fisher (2.2. IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, K) in the top of the third inning, and loaded the bases against the rookie. Yodowitz (9-3 record) entered the game and ended the threat by forcing a ground out to the first batter she faced.
Jill Fisher roped a three-run homer to center field in the bottom of the fourth inning to push the Pioneers advantage to 8-2, before Cooley launched her first homer of the season, a two-run shot to right field, with one out in the fifth inning to end the game via the mercy rule.
Yodowitz retired all seven batters she faced to earn the victory, striking out two batters in the process.
Head coach Jamie Apicella's Pioneers are back in action at home Tuesday afternoon, when they open up East Coast Conference play with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader against arch-rival Adelphi.