FAIRFIELD, Conn. (March 30, 2024) – The Stonehill College Softball ended a three-game weekend series at Sacred Heart University Saturday afternoon, dropping the final game, 9-3, in Northeast Conference play.
Sacred Heart 9 (13-17, 7-1 NEC), Stonehill 3 (6-19, 1-8)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Stonehill took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second when freshman Caelan Beatty (Oro Valley, Ariz.) sent a double into the right-centerfield gap to bring in freshman Harper Sullivan (Glendale, Ariz.) from first base.
Sacred Heart hit three doubles in the bottom half of the second to score a pair of runs, taking a 2-1 lead.
Junior Shannon Conte (Amesbury, Mass.) tied the score in the fifth inning with a two-out RBI single that plated sophomore Natalie Bottiglieri (Massapequa, N.Y.) after she stole second to get in scoring position.
A solo homerun from the Pioneers broke the tie in the bottom half of the fifth before Sacred Heart scored five more runs in the sixth, building a 9-2 lead going into the final inning.
Stonehill scored one more run on an error in the seventh but the Pioneers closed out the NEC win, 9-3.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Junior Skylar Brandemarte (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) falls to 3-8 in the circle this year, this being her first start that wasn't a complete game in her past three starts.
- Sam Kowalski pitched all seven innings for the Pioneers giving up five hits and three runs, two earned, while striking out two.
- Conte went 1-3 with an RBI single and has now reached base safely in seven of the last eight games.
- Beatty had two base hits including her first career double on Saturday, also recording her first career multi-hit game.
- Bottiglieri swiped her fourth stolen base of the season, a team-high mark.
- Sacred Heart tallied 16 hits as all nine batters in the starting lineup recorded at least one hit.
UP NEXT
Stonehill softball returns home to Fr. Gartland Field on Tuesday, April 2 for a Northeast Conference doubleheader against Merrimack beginning at 2 p.m.
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