SOFTBALL BLANKS NYACK IN FRIGID HOME OPENER
3-31-05
CC 9, NC 0
CC 6, NC 0
CALDWELL,
N.J. - In the home opener for the 2005 season, the Caldwell College
softball team shut out Nyack College, 9-0 and 6-0, in a Central
Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader Thursday afternoon at a
chilly Caldwell Field. The wins gave the Cougars an overall record of
8-3 and a perfect 4-0 mark in conference play, while the Warriors fell
to 3-7 overall, 0-4 CACC.
The Cougars got off to a quick start in the first game, scoring three
runs in the first inning. They added another run in the second when
freshman Alyssa Speno (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) led off the
inning with a triple, then scored when junior Amy Coker
(Pennsville, NJ/Pennsville) doubled. In the fifth inning, The Cougars
put the game out of reach with five runs. Speno singled home freshman
Carrie Flasphaler (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads), pictured, who
had tripled. Speno later scored her third run of the game when junior
Katie Jackson reached on an error. Sophomore Anna Dahl
(Lindenwold, NJ/Camden Catholic) followed with her first home run of
the season. Junior Kim Birmingham (Pine Hill, NJ/Overbrook)
capped the scoring when she tripled, plating freshman Stephanie
Brodo (Belleville, NJ/St. Mary's).
Junior pitcher Jessica Saunders (Glen Burnie, MD/Archbishop
Spaulding) allowed just one hit in her four innings of work, striking
out seven and walking three. Freshman Kristen de la Campa
(Whitman, MA/Whitman Hanson) came in for the fifth and final inning,
striking out two.
In the second game, both teams struggled at the plate as pitchers Dahl
and Lauren Jacobs kept the hitters at bay for four innings. The
Cougars ended the drought in the fifth, when back-to-back two-out
singles by Speno and Coker knocked in the game's first two runs.
Caldwell put three more runs on the board in the sixth. Freshman
Nicole Bodrog (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) doubled home junior Sara
Neely (Middlesex, NJ/Middlesex), then scored along with Birmingham
when sophomore Desiree Wilson (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester
Catholic) singled. Dahl helped her own cause with an RBI single in the
seventh to close out the scoring.
Dahl (3-1) pitched six innings and allowed two hits and just five base
runners while striking out seven and walking three. De la Campa worked
the seventh, giving up a hit while fanning one.
The Cougars, who have a 19-inning scoreless streak, are
scheduled to play a non-conference doubleheader with Queens College on
Saturday, Apr. 2, at Caldwell Field. First pitch is set for noon.
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