ANOTHER NINE-INNING DEFEAT, SPLIT FOR COUGAR SOFTBALL
4-6-05
Pace 5, CC 3 (9 inn.)
CC 10, Pace 2
CALDWELL, N.J. - For the second day in a row, the Caldwell
College softball team lost a one-run game in the ninth inning, then
earned a split with a victory in the second game in s non-conference
doubleheader with Pace University Wednesday afternoon at Caldwell
Field. The Cougars, who followed up the 5-4 loss with a 10-2 win, are
now 10-5 on the season, while the Setters are 4-12.
In the first game, the Cougars trailed 3-0 after Pace scored runs in
the first, third and fourth innings. Caldwell broke through in the
bottom of the fifth, when freshman Nicole Bodrog (Mt. Laurel,
NJ/Lenape) (pictured) led off with a triple and then scored on a single by junior
Kim Birmingham (Pine Hill, NJ/Overbrook). Later in the inning,
sophomore Anna Dahl (Lindenwold, NJ/Camden Catholic) singled
home freshman Alyssa Speno (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) to make the
score 3-2.
Pace added another run in the top of the sixth and took a 4-2 lead
into the bottom of the seventh. After Speno and junior Amy Coker
(Pennsville, NJ/Pennsville) singled to start the seventh, a pop-up and
strikeout had the Cougars down to their last out. But sophomore
Jackie Velardi (Belleville, NJ/Belleville) knocked home both Speno
and Coker with a single to keep the Cougars alive and send the game
into extra innings.
In the top of the ninth, Pace's Michelle Brigham was placed on second
base and advanced to third on a single by Kelly Kinyon. Brigham then
scored the go-ahead run when Jacquelyn Burd doubled. Despite having
Speno placed on second base to start the bottom of the ninth, the
Cougars were unable to score in their half of the inning.
Dahl (4-2) pitched all nine innings and took the loss while allowing
nine hits, one earned run and seven walks with six strikeouts. Kinyon
earned the victory for Pace after allowing 10 hits and two walks with
four strikeouts in nine innings.
In the second game, Caldwell took a 1-0 lead in the third, then scored
nine runs on eight hits in the bottom of the fourth. Freshman
Carrie Flasphaler (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads) hit a three-run
homer, while Velardi and Bodrog each had two-run doubles in the
inning. Bodrog went 3-for-3 in the game and 6-for-7 on the day to lead
the Cougars.
Freshman Kristen de la Campa (Whitman, MA/Whitman Hanson)
earned her second win of the season after allowing two hits, two runs
and four walks while fanning five batters in five innings of work.
The Cougars host Holy Family University on Thursday, Apr. 7, in a
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader. The first game
begins at 3:00 p.m. at Caldwell Field.
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