PURCHASE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville College softball team made its long-awaited home debut on Saturday afternoon, and the Valiants made it worth the wait with 11-3 (6 inn.) and 8-0 (5 inn.) victories over Delaware Valley University in MAC Freedom action at Manhattanville Field.
 
Manhattanville (12-8, 6-0 MAC Freedom) hit .429 on the afternoon against Delaware Valley (2-7, 1-5 MAC Freedom), with all but one player recording at least one hit in the 11 innings of play. Sophomore Aarin Hartenstein (Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) had a team-best four hits while homering, driving in five and scoring five times, while freshman Sam Jedrey (La Canada Flintridge, Calif./La Canada) provided the walk-off hit in both games, ending up 2-for-2 with four RBIs and a run scored.
 
Game 1 – Manhattanville 11, Delaware Valley 3 (6 inn.)
 
Manhattanville started strong and never looked back in the first game of the day, scoring five unearned runs in the opening frame on the way to the 11-3 victory. Sophomore Evonne Torres (Hacienda Heights, Calif./Pioneer) had a team-best three hits while scoring three times and driving in two, while Hartenstein homered, drove in three and scored twice.
 
Sophomore Desiree Buboi (Villa Park, Calif./Orange Lutheran) opened the scoring in the bottom of the first with a run-scoring single after junior Laurel Coito (San Diego, Calif./Cathedral Catholic) reached on an error with one out. Torres followed that up with a two-run double to center field, and she subsequently came home on Hartenstein's second homer of the season.
 
Hartenstein stuck again in the third with an RBI single and senior Dolores Diemicke (North Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) added a two-run single in the fourth to give Manhattanville a 8-1 lead. After the Aggies plated single runs in the fifth and sixth, Jedrey invoked the mercy rule with a bases-clearing pinch-hit double down the right field line in the bottom of the sixth, scoring Diemicke, Hartenstein and Torres to end the game.
 
Junior Alycia Feeney (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) picked up her sixth win of the season, allowing only four hits and striking out six in six innings of work.
 
Game 2 – Manhattanville 8, Delaware Valley 0 (5 inn.)
 
Freshman Melissa Hess (Philadelphia, Pa./Saint Hubert Catholic) tossed her first collegiate shutout in the second game of the day, keeping Delaware Valley off the board until the offense could come around late in the 8-0 victory. The righthander struck out six and scattered three hits in the victory, her third of the season.
 
The Valiant offense picked up only two runs through the first four innings against DelVal starter Jamie Stefani. Sophomore Alexa Grniet (Morristown, N.J./Morristown) broke the ice with a RBI single in the second inning to score Hartenstein, and Hartenstein came around to score again in the fourth on a bunt single from senior Brittany Deieso (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster).
 
The floodgates finally opened in the fifth, as the home team scored six times to end the game early. Hartenstein poked a two-run single through the right side to double the Valiant lead, and three more runs came home on a wild pitch and a two-run pinch-hit single from senior Adrena Daw (Crompond, N.Y./Walter Panas). With two on and two out, Jedrey singled to right-center, scoring Grniet for the eighth and final run.
 
Manhattanville will be back in action tomorrow, as the Valiants host Misericordia University in another MAC Freedom doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.