COUGARS BATTLE FOR SWEEP OF QUEENS IN SOFTBALL
4-5-07
CC 9, QC 3
CC 8, QC 7 (9 inn.)
CALDWELL,
N.J. - Freshman Brittni Frantellizzi (Binghamton, NY/Susquehanna
Valley), left, drove home the game-winning run with a single in the bottom
of the ninth to give the Caldwell College softball team an 8-7 win in Game 2
and a sweep of a non-conference doubleheader with Queens College Thursday
afternoon at a chilly Caldwell Field. The wins give the 12th-ranked Cougars,
who won the first game 9-3, an 18-6 record on the season, while the Knights
fall to 7-11.
Before ending the day with the game-winning hit, Frantellizzi crushed her
first career home run in the day's first game, a three-run shot in the top
of the first inning. Junior Carrie Flasphaler (Horseheads, NY/Horseheads)
also tripled home a run in the inning to make the score 4-0. Frantellizzi
continued to swing a hot bat, knocking in a pair of runs with a double in
the third before scoring on a grounder by junior Alyssa Speno
(Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) to put the Cougars ahead 7-0. The Cougars scored two
more runs in the third for a 9-0 advantage. Nicole Mancusi, Jay Henck and
Sue Hurley each drove in runs in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings for
Queens to make the score 9-3.
Senior pitcher Nicole Webb (Toms River, NJ/Manchester Twp.) went four
innings and allowed just two hits and one run while striking out four and
walking two to earn the victory. Christy Sanders took the lost for Queens
after giving up nine hits and nine runs, seven earned, in 4 2/3 innings.
The
Knights got off to a better start in the second game, as Lucy Oswald doubled
home Tonianne Campuzano in the top of the first inning for a 1-0 lead.
Caldwell answered with three runs in the bottom of the first to take a 3-1
lead. Speno had a sacrifice fly in the inning that plated freshman
Danielle Genovese (Livingston, NJ/Livingston), right, while Frantellizzi
and senior Jackie Velardi (Belleville, NJ/Belleville) each scored
unearned runs. But a two-run double by Campuzano in the second and an RBI
single by Hurley in the third put Queens ahead 4-3. Genovese tied the game
at 4-4 when she stole home on a double steal play in the bottom of the
fifth.
Queens continued to battle, scoring two unearned runs in the top of the
sixth to grab a 6-4 advantage. In the bottom of the sixth, junior Nicole
Bodrog (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) followed a walk by freshman Kyrie
Timbrook (Los Gatos, CA/Los Gatos) with a two-run home run to right
field that tied the game at 6-6. It was Bodrog's team-leading third home run
of the season. Neither team scored in the seventh, sending the game into
extra innings. After a scoreless eighth, Henck scored the go-ahead run for
Queens on a Caldwell error in the top of the ninth. The Cougars tied the
game on a single by Genovese that plated Bodrog in the bottom of the ninth.
With Genovese eventually moving to third on a sacrifice bunt, Frantellizzi
stepped up and hit the game-winning single to left field that scored
Genovese and gave Caldwell the sweep.
Genovese
went 5 for 5 in the second game, with Bodrog recording two hits, two RBIs
and two runs. Webb, left, pitched all nine innings for Caldwell to improve
to 9-4 on the season. Webb worked a total of 13 innings on the day, allowing
three earned runs and 11 hits.
The Cougars return to the field on Tuesday, Apr. 10, when they host
Bloomfield College in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader.
The first game begins at 3:00 p.m. at Caldwell Field.
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