Softball Dispatches Dowling; 8-3, 3-0
Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score
BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. (April 3, 2008) - In a re-match of last season's East Coast Conference tournament finalists, the C.W. Post softball team swept ECC rival Dowling College, winning the first game by a score of 8-3, and shutting out the Golden Lions in the nightcap, 3-0, on Thursday afternoon in Brookhaven, N.Y.
The wins improve the Pioneers' record to 19-10 and 6-0 in the ECC, while Dowling falls to 9-17 and 0-4 in conference play.
Samantha Yodowitz earned her 10th win of the season, throwing seven innings and allowing three runs on eight hits, striking out nine.
The Pioneers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning, when a
Melissa Hippo (Granite Bay, Calif.) triple to right center scored
Melissa Medina (Levittown, N.Y.) and
Amanda Aiello (Charlton, Mass.) who had both singled to reach base.
They quickly doubled their lead in the second inning, when Yodowitz singled home
Megan Correia (Seekonk, Mass.) and
Katie Younes (Newport, Mass.).
The Golden Lions scored a run in the top of the third when Kacie Pinto's RBI single to center scored Stephanie Compitello. Dowling threated to score more in the inning with runners in scoring position, but Medina threw Pinto out trying to score on a base hit to centerfield to end the inning.
Dowling scored again in the fifth, when Taras Wallace doubled to centerfield with the bases loaded to score two runs and pull to within one run, 4-3.
However, the Pioneers responded with a four-run sixth, capped by Hippo's bases loaded double to right center, and Yodowitz shut down the Pioneers in the final two innings to close out the win.
Offensively, Medina, Aiello, Hippo, Correia and Younes each recorded two hits in the game.
The second game was a low-scoring affair, as freshman
Christina Berardi (Raynham, Mass.) shut out the Golden Lions to earn her eighth win of the season. She threw seven innings and gave up only two hits, striking out eight and walking three.
The Pioneers struck again in the first inning, when Medina scored on a Hippo RBI groundout, and Aiello came around to score on a
Christie Softy single to center. T
he game would remain locked a 2-0 until the seventh inning, and Berardi did not allow a Dowling runner to reach third base. In the seventh,
Holly Eringis blasted a home run to right center to add an insurance run.
Yodowitz doubled in the third for the only extra base hit for the Pioneers in the game besides Eringis' home run. Six players recorded a hit in the win.
Head coach
Jamie Apicella and the Pioneers take on Merrimack this Saturday, April 5, at home, at noon, for a non-conference double-header.