Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 PURCHASE, N.Y. – All 13 players that stepped to the plate picked up at least one hit for the Manhattanville softball team as the Valiants rolled to a twinbill sweep of John Jay on Wednesday afternoon, winning by scores of 10-0 and 11-2 in a non-conference doubleheader at Manhattanville Field.
 
No player had more than three hits on the day for the balanced Manhattanville (19-17) attack, which pounded out 22 hits in 10 innings to earn the two wins. Freshman Jillian Chittenden (Rye, N.Y./Rye) and junior Kirsten Savage (Harrington Park, N.J./Old Tappan) had a team-leading three hits apiece, while sophomore Cori-Bianca Embler (Beacon, N.Y./Beacon) and senior Katie Pitcher (Cold Spring, N.Y./Valley Central) both scored four times to lead the squad.
 
Manhattanville got all the offense it needed in just one inning of the first game, scoring 10 times in the second and cruising the rest of the way in a 10-0 (5 inn.) win.
 
Nine different players had a hit for the home team, with Chittenden the only one to record multiple base hits with a 2-for-3 showing. Senior Brianna Scapperotti (Harrison, N.Y./Harrison) had a team-leading three runs batted in, while Embler and Pitcher both scored twice.
 
The Valiants sent 15 players to the plate in the decisive second frame, taking advantage of three John Jay errors to put a 10-spot on the scoreboard. Junior Alyssa Taylor (Craik, Sask./Craik) started the inning with a single before three straight Bloodhound errors allowed the first two unearned runs to score, and Scapperotti opened the floodgates with a bases-clearing triple to right field. The Valiants added five more to the total to put up double figures in an inning for the first time since scoring 12 times in the third inning against Farmingdale State on April 21, 2007.
 
Taylor did not allow a hit in her four innings of work in the circle, improving to 9-3 by striking out six and allowing only three walks. Sophomore Marissa DeGaetano (Yorktown, N.Y./Lakeland) came on to pitch the fifth, working around a single to close out the win.
 
The Valiant bats stayed hot in the second game of the day, as 10 different players had at least one hit in the 11-2 (5 inn.) victory.
 
After not playing in game one, senior Jessica Van Galen (Bedford Hills, N.Y./Fox Lane) had two hits, scored twice and drove in one for Manhattanville in game two. Savage also had two hits, scored once and drove in one, while sophomore Rosaria Callara (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) went 1 for 2 with a three-run homer.
 
John Jay got the scoring started with a leadoff homer by Ashley Kersting to start the second, but Manhattanville came back with five runs in the bottom half to quickly take back the lead. Two runners came home on an RBI infield single by Savage that was subsequently thrown away by the second baseman, and Callara followed up with her first career homer, a three-run shot over the fence in right that made it 5-1 after two.
 
The Valiants were back for more in the third, as Chittenden drove home two with a two-out single that gave the home team a six-run lead as the game headed to the fourth.
 
The runs continued coming in that fourth inning, scoring four more times to reach double figures again. Sophomore Laura Montalto (Bronx, N.Y./Preston) drove home the first run with a single up the middle, followed by a Van Galen rocket off the left-field fence that scored another. Embler and classmate Alyssa Casino (Rye Brook, N.Y./Maria Regina) added run-scoring base hits of their own in the inning as well, which provided the final margin after Pitcher closed things down in the fifth.
 
Pitcher (3-4) earned her second straight win in the circle, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out a career-high five in five innings.
 
Manhattanville will close out its regular-season schedule on Sunday afternoon, as the Valiants celebrate their four seniors with Senior Day festivities before taking on Baruch in a non-conference doubleheader at Manhattanville Field starting at noon.