PATCHOGUE, N.Y. – After a week in between action, the Manhattanville University softball team showed no signs of rust on Sunday, plating 25 runs in a doubleheader sweep of Saint Joseph's Long Island. The Valiants improve to 10-6 overall and are off to a 4-0 start to Skyline Conference play.
Game One Recap: Manhattanville 14, Saint Joseph's Long Island 5
The Manhattanville bats were red-hot on a chilly Sunday in Long Island, plating a season-high 14 runs in the opener with an eight-run first.
It was as ideal of a start a team could hope for at the plate, posting the big first inning on seven hits and a pair of Golden Eagle errors. With one out,
Josie O'Leary (Pawling, N.Y./Pawling) triples,
Isabella Tansey (San Diego, Calif./University City) walked and Liana Lara singled to load the bases, with an error to allow the opening run to score. After
Sydni Brooks (Anaheim, Calif./Cypress) walked to load the bags again, the Valiants hit four straight singles to plate four more runs.
Samantha Reyer (Oceanside, N.Y./Oceanside),
Alexa Lazur (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon),
Cady Sickler (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston) and
Breanna Ochoa (South Gate, Calif./Saint Joseph High School) all drove in a run to extend the Manhattanville lead to 5-0, still with only one out.
After another error allowed Lazur to score with the sixth run of the inning, Saint Joseph's made an early pitching change.
Emma Foster (Santa Barbara, Calif./San Marcos) greeted the new arm of Katelyn Lysogorski with a bases-clearing double to bring home two more. The Golden Eagles were able to stop the bleeding with a pair of strikeouts to bring the inning to a closer after 13 Valiants stepped up to the plate.
Saint Joseph's was able to get two runs back in the bottom half and tacked on three more in the second as
Jori Wilkendorf (Livermore, Calif./Livermore) was unable to settle in over her first two innings of work. The junior pitcher surrendered the five runs on seven hits, but was able to limit the damage to keep the Valiants in front heading into the third.
The Valiants went back to work to pick up their pitcher as singles from Sickler and Foster sandwiching an Ochoa walk loaded the bases with nobody out. O'Leary brought a run home on an RBI groundout before Tansey drove in Ochoa on a double while Foster scored on an error. Tansey herself would score on a double steal of home two batters later to regain separation for the Valiants, leading 12-5.
Wilkendorf was able to bounce back after the rough first two innings, scattering three hits over her final four scoreless innings of work. The junior improved to 7-3, being tagged for five earned runs on 10 hits and a walk while striking out one.
Manhattanville closed out the victory with a two-run seventh, with O'Leary driving in Ochoa on an infield single and Brooks plating O'Leary on a sacrifice fly.
Hyli De Los Santos (Tustin, Calif./Irvine) came on in relief in the seventh, working around a two-out single for a scoreless appearance to snag the Game One victory.
Game Two Recap: Manhattanville 11, Saint Joseph's Long Island 0 (Five Innings)
Wilkendorf and De Los Santos tossed a combined five-inning three-hit shutout in the finale as the bats collected 17 more hits.
The Valiants again spotted their arms an early lead, scoring four runs on six hits. An O'Leary double and
Angelina Cruz (Oceanside, Calif./Rancho Buena Vista) walk set the table with one away. Brooks and Tansey laced back-to-back RBI doubles before Reyer plated Brooks on a ground out. Lazur prolonged the inning with a two-out single, allowing Sickler to drive in the fourth run of the frame with the Valiants' third RBI double of the inning.
Manhattanville tacked on another in the second on a Brooks RBI single before erupting for a sixth-run fourth. O'Leary and Cruz led off with singles, allowing Brooks to drive home the first run of the big inning with a double. Two batters later, Reyer plated another one with a single while Brooks scored on a double steal. Sickler smacked another RBI double. Ochoa plated Sickler on a single before O'Leary notched her second hit of the inning, a double that brought Ochoa home for the 11-0 lead.
Wilkendorf has a strong bounce-back after the opener, allowing just three hits and a walk with two strikeouts in her three innings. De Los Santos picked up right where her rotation mate left off, pitching two hitless inning with a walk as the lone blemish on her line.
O'Leary, Brooks, Tansey and Sickler each finished with a pair of doubles.
Up Next
Manhattanville resumes non-conference action on Wednesday for a 3 p.m. twinbill at Albertus Magnus.
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