NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville University softball team opened conference play on Thursday night, sweeping a doubleheader against Yeshiva University. The Valiants improve to 6-4 overall with the victories.

Game One Recap: Manhattanville 11, Yeshiva 0 (5 Inn.)
Jori Wilkendorf (Livermore, Calif./Livermore) and Thalia Smith combined for a no-hitter in the opener as the bats plated 11 runs on nine hits.

Manhattanville drew five walks and had singles off the bats of Breanna Ochoa (South Gate, Calif./Saint Joseph High School) and Alexa Lazur (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) to plate seven runs in the first. The free passes and wild pitches put traffic on the base paths all inning long to allow the Valiants to build up the lead.

Working with the lead, Wilkendorf fired the first three innings of the game, striking out eight while walking one. The junior picked up the win, improving to 4-3 on the year and lowering her ERA to 1.44.

The Valiants added three more in the second, loading the bases on a pair of walks by Wilkendorf and Ruby Wilson (Merrimack, N.H./Bishop Guertin) with a Sydni Brooks (Anaheim, Calif./Cypress) single. Samantha Reyer (Oceanside, N.Y./Oceanside) and Cady Sickler (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston) drew bases loaded walks for the first two of the frame while Emma Foster (Santa Barbara, Calif./San Marcos) drove in the 10^th run of the game with an infield single.

Manhattanville's final run came in the third, an RBI triple off the bat of Bria Hospodar (Old Bethpage, N.Y./Plainview-Old Bethpage John F Kennedy) to score Wilkendorf for the 11-0 lead.

Smith closed out the game with the final two innings in the circle, striking out four while issuing two walks to be part of her first collegiate no-no.

Wilkendorf drew three walks and scored three times to help her own cause, while Ochoa was the lone Valiant with multiple hits in the win. Foster and Alexa Lazur (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) swiped a pair of bases, while Sickler added one.

Game Two Recap: Manhattanville 8, Yeshiva 0 (Five Inn.)
The Valiants drew 15 more walks in the finale, using just three hits to plate eight more runs for the sweep.

Manhattanville benefited from three Yeshiva errors and walked five times in the first inning while Hospodar delivered the lone hit of the inning, driving in two with a bases loaded single. Ochoa capped off the six-run inning with a walk with the bases loaded.

The Valiants loaded the bags again in the second on a pair of hit by pitches and an Isabella Tansey (San Diego, Calif./University City) infield single. Angela Cruz drew a bases loaded walk to bring home the seventh run before Hospodar drove in one more with an RBI single later in the frame.

Hyli De Los Santos (Tustin, Calif./Irvine) got the start, firing four innings. The sophomore struck out seven, allowing two hits and walking a pair to earn her first career victory.

Hospodar took over in the circle for the final inning of work, allowing one hit and striking out two. She finished as the lone batter with multiple hits, credited with three RBI in the victory.

Up Next
The Valiants head back to Salisbury for the second time in as many weekends, taking on the Sea Gulls for a Saturday doubleheader down in Maryland starting at noon.

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