Posted: Mar 17, 2010
Box Score vs. Rutgers-Camden
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – For the fourth straight day, the Endicott College softball team split a pair of games as a part of the Rebel Spring Games held in Kissimmee, Fla. The Gulls (4-4) fell to Montclair State University, 4-0, in the first game of the day but then defeated Rutgers-Camden, 5-3, in nine innings in game two.
In game one against the Red Hawks, neither team mustered any offense until Montclair State broke through in the top of the fifth inning. Kelli O’Brien (Edison, N.J.) reached on an error by \#Jenna Lazar\# (Milton, Mass.) that scored Leslie Gonzalez (West New York, N.J.) and allowed MSU to grab a 1-0 lead. The Red Hawks added three more in the top of the sixth when Gonzalez singled to right field and drove in a pair of RBI. Gonzalez would come around to score on Megan Durkin’s (West Orange, N.J.) steal attempt and ran away with a 4-0 victory.
Endicott had four players register two hits apiece including \#Merry MacDonald\# (Braintree, Mass.), \#Hayley Hovhanessian\# (Farmington, Conn.), \#Ashley Wright\# (Merrimack, N.H.) and \#Sarah Spaziano\# (Norton, Mass.). \#Jenna Bortolotti\# (Milton, Mass.) fell to 0-4 this season after going seven innings and giving up three earned runs on seven hits and three walks.
Montclair State’s Elia Persico (Marlton, N.J.) picked up the win for the Red Hawks by allowing only nine hits in her complete-game shutout effort. Gonzalez was an offensive force for MSU as the junior went 2-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored and two RBI.
Against the Raptors of Rutgers-Camden, the Gulls jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top half of the second on a 2 RBI double by \#Gail LeBrun\# (Rowley, Mass.). The Raptors would make it a 2-1 game in their half of the second and later took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the fourth as Erika Drayton (Blackwood, N.J.) picked up an RBI with a sacrifice fly and Amanda D’Anduono (Lanoka Harbor, N.J.) drove in another run with an RBI single. The Gulls tied the game in the top of the fifth on an RBI double by MacDonald.
Both pitchers held the other team scoreless until the top half of the ninth inning when the Gulls pushed two runs across on an RBI walk by \#Katherine McGann\# (Topsfield, Mass.) and an RBI single from \#Hayley Hovhanessian\#. \#Kayla Carginan\# (Laconia, N.H.) worked her way out of a jam in the bottom of the ninth to pick up her fourth win of the season.
The Gulls had three players with multiple hits led by \#Megan Downey\# (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), who went 4-for-5 at the plate with two runs scored. Hovhanessian went 2-for-4 with an RBI while \#Ashley Wright\# was 3-for-4 with a run scored. Carignan picked up the win by going nine innings and giving up three earned runs while striking out a pair.
Lindsay Snajkowski (Pennsville, N.J.) went 3-for-4 at the plate to lead the Raptors while also pitching nine innings and giving up five runs – four earned – on 12 hits while walking six in the setback.
The Blue and Green wrap up their trip to Florida on Thursday as the Gulls will face Millikin University at 1:00 p.m. and then take on Illinois Wesleyan University at 3:00 p.m.
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