GAME ONE BOX SCORE

GAME TWO BOX SCORE

The Saint Vincent softball team improved to 9-1 on the season with a doubleheader sweep over Juniata College on the road in Huntingdon, PA.  Game scores were 13-0 and 5-2.

In the opener, the Bearcats led from the start, before a three-run double from Maria Adams with two outs in the seventh inning would cap off the sweep.

In the day's first game, the Bearcats got on the board early, scoring three runs with two outs in the top of the first.  Emily Petrowsky racked an RBI single, scoring Megan Regula, who walked, before Alyssa Grossman went deep with her first career home run to make the score 3-0.

Saint Vincent doubled its lead to 6-0 with a three more runs in the second inning.  Becky Deane singled and Leanna Seminsky doubled to lead off the inning, and both were brought home on a Regula one-base hit to make the score 5-0.  Maria Adams would follow by driving in Regula for SVC's sixth run with a double.

In the sixth, the Bearcats scored once, with Regula driving home Deane, who singled, with a fielder's choice, before the team put the game away with a six-run seventh inning.  The team's first six batters of the inning reached base and subsequently scored, with Deane tallying an RBI with a bases loaded walk, and Shannon Hite and Sabrina Schmittlein each hitting run-scoring singles.

The run support was more than plenty for Bearcat starter Shauna Hetrick, who improved to 4-1 on the year with her third complete-game shutout.  The lefty faced just four batters over the minimum, allowing four hits and one walk with five strikeouts. 

All nine of the Bearcat starters posted at least one hit, with Petrowsky, Seminsky, Deane, and Hite all tallying two hits apiece.  As a team, Saint Vincent racked 14 hits for the game.

The nightcap began as a pitcher's duel between the Bearcats' Grossman and Juniata's Kelsey Decker, as the team's would combine for just five hits through five scoreless innings. 

The Bearcats would finally get on the board, manufacturing a run in the top half of the sixth.  Seminsky led off by reaching on an error, before Sam Shumaker singled.  Following a sacrifice bunt from Adams, Seminsky would score the game's first run on a Petrowsky sacrifice fly.

The Eagles would come back to take the lead in the bottom of the sixth, taking advantage of four Saint Vincent errors to plate two unearned runs, but the Bearcats would answer right back.

Deane began the top of the seventh with a double, before the Eagles would get two quick outs.  Saint Vincent wouldn't go away, as Seminsky singled before Shumaker was hit by a pitch to load the bases.  Adams then came through with the game's big hit, a three-run double that would clear the bases and seal the win.

Seminsky was the lone SVC player to record multiple hits, going 2-for-3 with two runs scored.  Grossman worked all seven innings in the circle, and improved to 5-0, allowing two runs, both unearned, on six hits, with seven strikeouts.  The reigning Presidents' Athletic Conference and ECAC Pitcher of the Week, she has now thrown 23 straight innings without allowing an earned run.

The Bearcats will return to action on Saturday afternoon, opening up their Presidents' Athletic Conference schedule with a 1pm home doubleheader against Waynesburg University.