Purchase, N.Y. – The College of Mount Saint Vincent Softball team dropped a pair of games to NYU-POLY on Sunday afternoon to close out the 2013 season by scores of 6-3 and 4-2. Senior
Ashley Winn (Brooklyn, N.Y.) ripped a run scoring double in game one for the Dolphins.
Mount Saint Vincent never led in the opener on Sunday and fell behind the top of the first inning when Sadie Hoeschen scampered home on a wild pitch. Hoeschen reached on a walk and advanced to third on a one out single from Megan Moran.
The Jays would double their lead in the third inning after getting two straight two-out hits. Corine Fitzgibbons doubled with two outs and no one on and later crossed with NYU-POLY's second run of the game on a Karina Amaro base hit.
Mount Saint Vincent would scratch back to within a run after plating a run in the home half of the third. After Winn was hit by a pitch and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt,
Kathleen Davis (Beacon, N.Y.) doubled down the right field line to being the Dolphins to within 2-1.
The Jays added a third run in the fifth when Hoeschen scored her second run on a wild pitch and then opened a 6-1 lead in the seventh with three more tallies. Fitzgibbons delivered a run with a single and the Jays scored two more runs on wild pitches.
Mount Saint Vincent would battle back with two runs in the seventh after getting the first two hitters on. With one out, Winn doubled home
Danielle Kirrane (Bronx, N.Y.) before Caey Cuccio (Medford, N.Y.) scored on a groundout to close out the scoring.
Mount Saint Vincent was held to just three hits in the opener on Sunday, with Davis, Kirrane and Winn recording the safeties. Kirrane, Cuccio and Winn accounted for the three Mount Saint Vincent runs in the game.
Fitzgibbons and Moran each finished with two hits for the Jays with Fitzgibbons scoring a pair of runs. Hoeschen added two runs for NYU-POLY.
Kathleen Davis suffered the loss for Mount Saint Vincent after working the complete game. She tossed 7.0 innings and struck out seven. Briana Feist picked up the win after working 5.0 innings and Miranda Merrlli earned the save with 2.0 innings of work.
In game two on Sunday, the Mount jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning after putting together two hits and working three walks. Cuccio scored on a bases load walk from
Joanna Makayan (Maspeth, N.Y.) and
Allison Regan (Carmel, N.Y.) scored on a Davis RBI single.
NYU-POLY would quickly tie the score in the top of the third inning when Christi Bruin delivered a two-out, two-run single to knot the score at 2-2. Hoeschen and Feist each scored on the play for the Jays.
The game would remain tied until the sixth inning when NYU-POLY pushed the eventual winning run across. Shelby Bruns reached on an error allowing a run to score and then later scored on a second Mount Saint Vincent miscue for an insurance run.
Mount Saint Vincent recorded four hits in game two with Davis,
Danielle Maffei (Valhalla, N.Y.),
Leeann Cerbone (Bronx, N.Y.) and Cuccio all singling.
Fitzgibbons added two more hits for the Jays in game two and Bruin closed out the win with a hit, a run and a pair of RBI.
Merelli earned the win in relief in game two after fanning six hitters in 5.0 innings of work. Davis took the loss without allowing an earned run and struck out three NYU-POLY hitters.
Sunday's sweep at the hands of the Jays closes out the season for Mount Saint Vincent with a 9-25 overall record and a 2-12 mark in Skyline Conference play.
