Waldron and Best Power Softball's Sweep of Villanova

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VILLANOVA, Pa. - The Seton Hall softball team took a pair of contests against Villanova on Saturday. The Pirates closed the sweep with a 7-5 win after Kealan Waldron (Oak Park, Ill.) hit her second homer of the game. The Pirates also took game one, 6-5, off a Jenna Best (Medford, N.J.) dinger to improve their record to 10-26 overall and 6-6 in the BIG EAST.

In the night-cap, Seton Hall loaded the bases in the top of the first for freshman Laura Baranek (Orefield, Pa.). Baranek delivered with a three-run double to put the Pirates on top, 3-0.

The Wildcats bounced back and put a run on the board in the bottom half of the first, and four more in the second to go ahead, 5-3.

Waldron brought the Pirates within one, at 5-4, with a solo shot in the top of the fifth, and drove in the tying run in the sixth. Junior Christa Leighton (Brewster, N.Y.) led off the sixth with a walk, and Annie Fedick (Passaic, N.J.) came into the game topinch run on first. Fedick advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Madon Maile (Jenkintown, Pa.) to set the table for Waldron's base-hit.

The score remained tied until the 11th, when senior Danielle Steinseifzer (Plano, Texas) reached on an error, and Waldron blasted her fourth home run of the season as the Hall took game two, 7-5.

Sophomore Kim Schweitzer (Syracuse, N.Y.) came in relief in the bottom of the seventh inning, and kept the Pirates in the game as it went into extra frames. She threw 4.2 innings of two hit ball to earn the win, improving to 8-15 on the year.

Waldron went 3-for-6 with four RBI, and Baranek was 2-for-5 with three RBI.

Seton Hall also struck first in game one, taking a 1-0 lead off a throwing error by the Villanova catcher. The Pirates tacked on two more runs in the top of the fourth with RBI singles from Steinseifzer and Leah Menichetti (Jessup, Pa.).

The Wildcats put runners on first and third in the bottom of the fourth, and a two-run double made it, 3-2. Another base-hit tied the game at three at the end of four.

The Pirates quickly regained the lead in the fifth. With the bases loaded, Ashley Constantini (Newark, Del.) registered a two-run single down the left field line to make it, 5-3.

Schweitzer, who started game one, surrendered a two-run homer in the bottom half of the inning to tie the score at five.

With one out, in the seventh Best blasted a shot to the opposite field, which proved to be the game-winner.

Steinseifzer went 2-for-3 with an RBI in game one. Schweitzer picked up the win, pitching a complete game.

The Pirates return to action at Rutgers tomorrow, Apr. 15 for a double-header slated to begin at noon.