COUGARS SPLIT KEY CACC DOUBLEHEADER WITH WILMINGTON

4-19-08
CC 1, WU 0 (8 inn.)
WU 7, CC 5
NEW CASTLE, Del. - The Caldwell College softball team took one of two games of a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader at Wilmington University, winning the first game 1-0 in eight innings before falling 7-5 in the second game Saturday afternoon at Asbury Field. The results give the Cougars a 12-4 record in the conference (22-18 overall), while the Wildcats (26-14) are 13-5 in the CACC.

The Cougars scored the only run of Game 1 in the top of the eighth, when senior Nicole Bodrog (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) led off with a single, advanced to second on an error and scored on a single by junior Gina Capardi (West Caldwell, NJ/Caldwell). Freshman pitcher Brittany Pulido (Ojai, CA/Nordhoff) handcuffed the Wildcats, allowing just four hits in eight innings for her sixth shutout of the season. Katie Turner gave up one earned run on five hits in 7 1/3 innings for Wilmington.

Wilmington took a 4-0 lead early in Game 2 before Caldwell scored runs in the fourth and fifth innings on RBIs from Bodrog and fellow senior Alyssa Speno (Waterloo, NJ/Waterloo), pictured. Wilmington answered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth to go ahead 7-2. A run-scoring single by sophomore Danielle Genovese (Livingston, NJ/Livingston) and a two-run homer from Capardi in the sixth cut the deficit to 7-5, but it would not be enough to avoid the split.

Pulido started the second game as well, giving up five hits and four runs, one earned, in four innings to fall to 11-6 on the season. Kim Lawrence earned the win for the Wildcats after allowing five runs on six hits and four walks in 5 2/3 innings.

The Cougars play league-leading Georgian Court University on Monday, Apr. 21 in a CACC doubleheader in Lakewood, N.J.

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