RADNOR, Pa. (Apr. 28, 2017)- Junior
Raychel Piserchia (Lyndhurst, N.J. / Queen of Peace) and freshman
Justine Stefura (Port Reading, N.J. / WoodBridge) combined for four RBI's as the Centenary University softball team dropped a Colonial States Athletic Conference doubleheader to Cabrini University on Friday afternoon. The Cavaliers improve to 17-9 overall and 15-5 in the CSAC, while the Cyclones fall to 13-19 overall and 11-9 in the CSAC.
GAME 1: Cabrini 12, Centenary 5
Junior
Sammie Darling (Succasunna, N.J. / Roxbury) and sophomore
Amanda Fox (Unionville, Conn. / Farmington) both went 2-for-3 with a run scored, while Stefura and Piserchia each tallied two RBI's as the Cyclones let an early lead slip away in the loss.
Centenary trailed 1-0 in the third, when Stefura hit her first homerun of the season to give the Cyclones a 2-1 lead. The Cavs answered with six runs over the next two innings, including the first of two homeruns in the contest from Lindsay Savar.
Centenary was able to get three runs back in the fifth, but still trailed 7-5. Junior
Ashley Eisenstein (Freehold, N.J. / Freehold Township) led off with a walk, followed by a Darling single to left field. During freshman
Juli Wright's
(Colonia, N.J. / Colonia) at-bat, both Darling and Eisenstein moved into scoring position on a wild pitch. Piserchia would eventually drive in both runs with a double down the right field line. Freshman
Jessica Hewitt (Waretown, N.J. / Southern Regional) would be the next batter up and she would drive in Piserchia from second.
Cabrini stretched their lead back to 12-5 with a run in the fifth and four runs in sixth, including a homerun from
Alpaugh and a second homerun from Savar.
Darling struck out one batter in the loss, while Jess Giordano fanned three batters and improve to 7-7 overall.
GAME 2: Cabrini 3, Centenary 0
Eisenstein and Wright both recorded a hit as the Cyclones scattered two hits over seven innings and were shutout in the loss.
The Cavs recorded two runs on three hits, including Cabrini's fourth homerun of the afternoon from Taylor Mack in the first. The Cavaliers added an insurance run in the sixth with an RBI double.
Emily Smull improved to 4-1 with the complete game shutout. Darling also tossed a complete game with only three earned runs in the loss.
Head Coach
Kim Broking and the Cyclones will return to action tomorrow, Saturday, Apr. 29
th, in La Plume, Pa. against the Giants of Keystone College at 1:00 p.m.