Skyhawks Get Split With Setters
Easton, Mass. - Courtney Young (Danvers, Mass.) and Jaime Ippolito (Chelsea, Mass.) blasted back-to-back homers in the bottom of the sixth inning of the back end of a doubleheader to help Stonehill secure a split with visiting Pace on Sunday afternoon on Fr. Gartland Field.
The homers, which broke open a 1-0 Skyhawk lead, gave Stonehill a 3-1 win in the second game of the twinbill after the Setters took game one 6-3.
Ippolito also earned the save, tossing 1.2 innings of relief in support of Katie Mottau (Woonsocket, R.I.) who went the first 5.1 innings, yielding only two hits. After giving up a single with two outs in the first, Mottau retired the next 11 batters before giving up another single with one out in the fifth.
Pace committed four errors, including two in the bottom of the second that helped score Stonehill's first run.
The Skyhawks themselves only had four hits, two of them coming from Young and another from Lauren Rappoli (Wilmington, Mass.).
Stonehill seemed to be in position to win the first game as well holding on to a 2-1 lead after Caitlin Flanagan (Cornwall, N.Y.) homered in the bottom of the fifth.
The Setters, however, scored five runs in the top of the sixth, highlighted by a two-run double from Alton Frisbie, to take control of the contest.
Pace leadoff hitter Christina Pane went 3-for-4 with two RBI, while Missy Dubey had three hits, two runs and an RBI.
Danielle Mason (Salisbury, Mass.) took the loss for the Skyhawks, going 5.2 innings and giving up six earned runs and 10 hits.
Stonehill, now 9-7 overall and 1-1 in Northeast-10 action, faces Merrimack on Tuesday at Fr. Gartland Field beginning at 3:30 p.m.