Softball Splits With Sacred Heart

GAME 1 BOX SCORE

GAME 2 BOX SCORE

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. The Seton Hall softball team took one of two in a doubleheader with Sacred Heart on Tuesday, winning the opener 9-1 in five innings before falling 5-4 in the nightcap.  The Pirates (4-19) return to action tomorrow at Monmouth.

Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the second in game one, the SHU offense exploded for six runs to take command of the contest.  Freshman Madon Maile (Jenkintown, Pa.) picked up an RBI single to tie the game before fellow rookie Allison Gengler (West Chester, Pa.) came up with a run-scoring grounder that was played into an error.  Sophomore Daria Glynos (Kenilworth, N.J.) later drove home a run with a single, followed by a three-run double from senior Jenna Best (Medford, N.J.) to make it 6-1.

Danielle Steinseifzer (Plano, Texas) blasted an opposite field homerun in the bottom of the third to make it 7-1 in favor of the Hall.  With the bases loaded later in the frame, Maile scampered home on a wild pitch for SHU’s eighth run. 

In the bottom of the fourth, Kealan Waldron (Oak Park, Ill.) laced a two-out double to keep the inning alive, and Steinseifzer knocked her in with a single off the shortstop to make it 9-1.  Kim Schweitzer (Syracuse, N.Y.), who allowed a lone run on five hits over five innings while striking out a career-high eight batters, threw a perfect fifth inning to pick up her third win of the year as the mercy rule took effect.

Steinseifzer was 2-for-2 with two RBI, while Waldron also collected a pair of hits.  Caitlin Carroll was 2-for-2 with an RBI for the Pioneers.

Sacred Heart jumped out early in the second game, going up 2-0 on a Betsy Harvey round-tripper off SHU pitcher Ashley Constantini (Newark, Del.).  The Pirates evened things up in the bottom of the second when Waldron followed a Shannon Pease (Binghamton, N.Y.) walk with a two-run shot to make it 2-2.

The Pioneers tacked on three runs in the top of the third, forcing Seton Hall to scratch its way back into the game.  Pease drew a one-out walk and advanced to third on Waldron’s double before later scoring on a passed ball to make it 5-3.  In the fifth, Leah Menichetti (Jessup, Pa.) made it all the way to third after her fly ball to center was dropped, and she came around to score on Pease’s RBI single that cut the deficit to one.  But a seventh inning rally was snuffed out as Sacred Heart held on for the win.

Waldron finished the second game with two more hits and a pair of RBI.  Pease, Gengler, and Glynos accounted for the other Pirate hits.  Constantini was saddled with the loss after allowing five runs on five hits over 4.2 innings.  Just two of the runs, however, were earned.  Megan Spehar picked up the win for the Pioneers.

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