Mercy Softball Closes Out Season with Split Against Bridgeport
Mercy Softball Closes Out Season with Split Against Bridgeport
The Mercy College softball team closed out the 2010 campaign by splitting a doubleheader with Bridgeport. The Mavericks (19-27; 8-20 East Coast Conference) lost game one, 6-2, and took the rubber match 14-10. Between games, three Mavericks players were honored for personal milestones.
Game one began with the Purple Knights getting on the scoreboard
first by scoring twice in the top of the third. Mercy
responded in the bottom of the frame as catcher Jackie Roebuck (Walden, N.Y./Chapel
Hill Christian) singled to lead off. She advanced to second
on a sacrifice bunt from Krissy
Lacik (Edison, N.J./Edison). After moving to
third on a wild pitch, Roebuck scored when Steph
Owsiany (Edison, N.J./Edison) lifted a sacrifice fly
to left. Mercy tied the game in the following inning when
freshman Ashley Johnstone (Bellmore, N.Y./John
F. Kennedy) tripled to left and scored on an error. The game
remained tied at 2-2 until the sixth when Bridgeport scored four
times to take a 6-2 lead.
After the first game, juniors Paige Cauley (Stratford, N.J./Iona College), Kim Curry (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Central) and Chelsea Methot (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Central) were honored with certificates. During the course of the season, each collected her 100th collegiate base hit.
The hits continued in game two for the Mavericks. Mercy jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on two doubles from Johnstone and Owsiany. Bridgeport scored twice in the second and four times in the third to take a 6-3 advantage.
Mercy erased that lead in the bottom of the inning by scoring six times on seven hits. Johnstone and Owsiany hit back-to-back singles to put runners on for Cait Rohme (Patchogue, N.Y./Suffolk C.C.), who blasted a three-run homer to left-center. Later in the inning, the Mavericks scored two more runs on consecutive squeeze plays from Lacik and Curry. Lacik scored the sixth run of the inning on an error.
Mercy added to their already large lead in the fifth as they pushed five more runs across. Lacik hit a one-out triple and beat the throw home on a Curry fielder’s choice. Cauley, Methot, and Johnstone hit back-to-back-to-back doubles, increasing the lead. Johnstone later scored on a force out coming off the bat of Rohme.
Bridgeport scored twice in the seventh, but the Mavericks won the game 14-10.
With the split, the team finished the 2010 season with 19 wins and eight victories in the East Coast Conference. The 19 wins is three more than a year ago, and the highest number since 1985, when Mercy posted a 19-9 record.
