Jaspers Earn Series Victory At Monmouth

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West Long Branch, NJ - Manhattan won this weekend's series with Monmouth thanks to splitting today's doubleheader at the MU Softball Field.

The Jaspers (11-7) took the nightcap by a 2-1 score, after dropping a 1-0 decision to the Hawks (8-4) in the opener.

With the split, the Green & White took three-of-four from the preseason MAAC favorite while winning the all-important tiebreaker.

Game Two
* Graduate student Nicole Williams (Ansonia, CT / St. Joseph's) fired a complete-game victory to lift Manhattan to a 2-1 win over Monmouth to clinch the series victory.

* Williams (4-1) struck out nine while yielding just one run on three hits and four walks over 7.0 dominant innings.

* The Jaspers scored both of their runs in the second inning.

* Senior Daniela Chiorazzi (Stony Point, NY / North Rockland) led off the frame with a walk, before scoring on sophomore Kaitlyn Flood's (Southbury, CT / Pomperaug) RBI double. Classmate Marika Deemer (Perrysburg, OH / Perrysburg) would plate Flood on the next play.

* Williams would make sure the two runs would hold up, as Manhattan traded the lone Hawk run for the second out in the seventh, before the fifth-year Jasper induced a fly out to end it.

* Graduate student Christine Gebhardt (Middletown, NJ / Middletown North), Flood and freshman Kristyn Smith (South Plainfield, NJ / Mount Saint Dominic Academy) all doubled to lead the way on offense for a Jasper unit that rapped out four hits.
 
Game One
* Manhattan dropped a pitchers' duel to Monmouth 1-0 in the opener.

* The Jaspers threatened out of the gate, as sophomore Gabriella Mazzotta (Somers, NY / Somers) and junior Annie Moore (Northridge, CA / El Camino Real) each singled, before sophomore Marika Deemer (Perrysburg, OH / Perrysburg) drew a walk to load up the bases with two outs. Unfortunately, sophomore Flood's line drive found a glove, as the visitors left them loaded.

* In the second inning, junior Jessie Rising (Little Egg Harbor, NJ / Pinelands) led off with a single, but the Green & White were unable to advance any further.

* Monmouth scored the game's only run in the fourth inning, and set down the final 17 batters in order to end the game.

* Rising was solid on the mound, yielding one run on five hits with a strikeout and a walk over 3.0 innings, while senior Kali Puppolo (Adams, MA / Herkimer County CC) struck out three, against two walks, over 3.0 hitless frames.

* Manhattan will next play at Niagara on Saturday, April 17, with opening pitch tabbed for 12:00 pm.