COUGARS SOFTBALL

COUGARS SWEEP CACC DOUBLEHEADER AT PHILADELPHIA U.

4-21-07
CC 6, PU 1
CC 12, PU 2
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Senior Jackie Velardi (Belleville, NJ/Bellevile) and junior Nicole Bodrog (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape), right, hit home runs to help the Caldwell College softball team win a pair of Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference games at Philadelphia University Saturday afternoon. The victories give the Cougars (24-10), ranked 16th nationally, a 14-4 mark in the conference, while the Rams (9-23) fall to 5-11 in the CACC.

Philadelphia scored the first run of the first game in the bottom of the fourth on a solo home run by Lindsey Field. Caldwell answered with five runs in the top of the fifth, including a three-run homer by Bodrog, her fifth of the season. Sophomore Kim Aguirre (Highland, CA/San Gorgonio) and freshman Danielle Genovese (Livingston, NJ/Livingston) also scored in the inning on an error for a 5-1 lead. Genovese drove in the game's final run with a single in the top of the sixth.

Sophomore pitcher Kristen de la Campa (Whitman, MA/Whitman Hanson) improved to 8-1 on the year after allowing three hits and one run in six innings of work. Jacque Curtis pitched five innings and took the loss for Philadelphia.

The Cougars started off Game 2 with a run in the first on a double by senior Stacy Falkowski (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads) that plated Genovese. Then in the third, Velardi (left) hit her first home run of the season, a two-run shot that gave Caldwell a 3-0 lead. A two-run double by freshman Alicia Langone (Kendall Park, NJ/South Brunswick) in the top of the fourth made it 5-0 before Maureen Keenan led off the bottom of the fourth with a home run for Philadelphia. Junior Alyssa Speno (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) had an RBI single in the fifth for a 6-1 advantage. After the Rams scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth, the Cougars scored six times in the top of the sixth to put the game out of reach. Falkowski, Aguirre and Speno each had RBIs in the inning.

Senior Nicole Webb (Toms River, NJ/Manchester Twp.) pitched five innings and gave up three hits and two runs (one earned) while striking out seven to improve to 10-7. Kelly Rauco absorbed the loss after tossing 3 1/3 innings for the Rams.

The Cougars host Pace University in a non-conference doubleheader on Sunday, Apr. 22. The first game is set to start at 1:00 p.m. at Caldwell Field.

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