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Riverdale, NY - Manhattan softball dropped its first two home games of the 2018 season on Thursday, April 5, going 0-2 against Stony Brook in a doubleheader at Gaelic Park.
Manhattan (14-11) fell to the Seawolves (11-12) 6-1 in the first game, giving up three runs in the seventh and final inning. Manhattan was able to tally seven hits, but also left 10 on base during the match-up.
Senior
Victoria Ross (Bloomfield, NJ / Bloomfield) went 2-3 at the plate, including capturing the Jaspers' only RBI of the game when she hit a one-run homer in the bottom of the second inning to tie the game at 1-1. It was Ross' third home run of the season and the ninth of her career.
Pitcher
Briana Matazinsky (Valley Falls, NY / Tamarac) took the loss for Manhattan on the mound, pitching 5.0 innings and giving up five hits and two runs, while striking out four. She is 5-4 on the season. Matazinsky was relieved in the sixth by
Kayla McDermott (Garnerville, NY / North Rockland), who went for two more innings, giving up five more hits and four runs.
Manhattan struck first in game two, when junior
Lauren Pitney's (Ansonia, CT / St. Joseph's) sacrifice fly scored
Shannon Puthe (Mullica Hill, NJ / Saint Joseph's) in the bottom of the first. Pitney would later homer, her fourth of the season, in the bottom of the fifth to pull the Jaspers within one of the Seawolves at 3-2.
Down 5-2 going into the bottom of the sixth, Manhattan took advantage of Stony Brook's missteps to tie the game up. First, freshman
Daniela Chiorazzi (Stony Point, NY / North Rockland) scored on a passed ball that also advanced all runners with the bases loaded. Pitney then walked with the bases full, scoring senior
Rachael Mumma (Mechanicsburg, PA / Cumberland Valley). With the bases still packed, Ross reached on a walk as well, scoring Puthe and tying the game at five all.
With no change in score at the end of seven, the Jaspers and Seawolves headed into extra innings. In the top of the eighth, Stony Brook's Melissa Rahrich singled through the left side to drive in a run, giving the Seawolves a 6-5 advantage. The Jaspers went three up three down in the bottom of the eighth, unable to put together a second comeback of the game and falling to Stony Brook 6-5.
Pitching 2.1 innings in relief,
Stephanie Kristo (San Jose, CA / Archbishop Mitty) took the loss for the Jaspers. She is 0-2 on the season. Pitney finished game two with a game-high three RBIs.
Up Next:
Manhattan begins conference play against Fairfield in a doubleheader at Gaelic Park starting at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 7.
