WAYNE, N.J. – The Manhattanville College softball team faced arguably its toughest test of the season and came through with a pair of impressive victories, sweeping previously unbeaten William Paterson University by the scores of 9-0 and 10-4 in non-conference action on Tuesday afternoon at Pioneer Softball Field.
 
The two wins keep Manhattanville (16-0) perfect on the year and also knock William Paterson (12-2) from the ranks of the unbeaten, leaving Saint Catherine University as the only other undefeated team in Division III. The 16 straight wins also break a tie with the 2007 softball team and the 2003-04 women's hockey team for the longest winning streak in any sport at Manhattanville.
 
Freshman Desiree Buboi (Villa Park, Calif./Orange Lutheran) paced the Valiants offensively, going 5-for-7 with a homer, two doubles, four runs batted in and three runs scored. Junior Alicia Marino (Mahopac, N.Y./Pleasantville) homered, scored four times and drove in four as well, while junior Dolores Diemicke (North Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) and freshman Evonne Torres (Hacienda Heights, Calif./Pioneer) had three RBIs each.
 
GAME ONE

Manhattanville rolled to a win in the first game of the day, using a six-run fourth inning to break the game open and getting a complete-game shutout from sophomore Alycia Feeney (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) to earn a 9-0 victory.

Freshman Aarin Hartenstein (Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) led the offense with three hits in three at-bats, doubling twice and driving home two runs. Marino and Diemicke both drove in two runs each, while sophomore Laurel Coito (San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic) had two hits and scored twice as well.
 
Manhattanville started the game small, scoring once in each of the first three innings. In the first, Coito hustled to third base on a misplayed fly ball and came home on a single from Buboi. The Valiants got one more in the second inning, with junior Brittany Deieso (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) leading off with a walk, getting to third on a single from freshman Sophia Chapelone (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) and coming home on a wild pitch. Another came home in the third stanza, as Marino reached on an error and came all the way around on a Hartenstein double to the gap.
 
Manhattanville blew the game open in the fourth inning, scoring six times on six hits. Torres blooped a single down the left-field line to start the scoring, followed by a two-run single from Marino. An RBI double from Hartenstein and a Diemicke two-run triple off the wall came right after that to complete the rally.
 
While the bats were humming, Feeney kept the Paterson bats quiet all game long. Feeney (9-0) remained undefeated with her fourth shutout of the year, ceding just five singles to the Pioneers. She moved into a tie for seventh in D-III in shutouts alongside WPU's Allison Podmajersky (8-1), who allowed all nine runs on 12 hits in 4.1 innings.
 
GAME TWO
 
Manhattanville completed the sweep with another victory in game two, as the Valiants pounded out 16 hits and scored in double figures for the seventh time this season with a 10-4 win over the Pioneers.
 
Buboi went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs scored in the second game, while Chapelone had three hits, drove in two and scored twice from the top of the order.
 
The Valiants started strong in the second game as well, putting four runs on the board before WPU had a chance to dig in. Three straight doubles from sophomore Alexis Ventarola (Eastchester, N.Y./Eastchester), Buboi and Torres brought home two runs, and then Marino doubled the lead with a long ball to left, her fourth of the year.
 
Paterson got back within two runs in the fifth inning, but Buboi got two back in the top of the sixth with a liner over the fence in left, her team-best fifth homer of the season, to make it a 7-3 score. The visitors tacked on three more in the top of the seventh, with Diemicke scoring one with a visit to the gap in right-center and Chapelone adding a two-out, two-run double.
 
Freshman Julianna Orrico (Bronx, N.Y./Preston) picked up the win for the Valiants in game two, allowing only one earned run (four overall) on six hits in six innings to improve to 6-0 on the year. Hartenstein closed things out in the seventh for the Valiants as well, working around a leadoff hit batter.
 
Manhattanville will return to action tomorrow, when the Valiants host Mount Saint Mary College in a non-conference twinbill starting at 3 p.m. at Manhattanville Field.