BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – The Manhattanville University softball team swept Sarah Lawrence College in dominating fashion on Saturday afternoon, holding the Gryphons to just one hit across the two games and outscoring the opposition 25-0 across the ten total innings. The Valiants improve to 13-7 overall and 6-0 in Skyline play.

Game One was highlighted by Jori Wilkendorf (Livermore, Calif./Livermore) in the circle, who recorded her fourth collegiate no-hitter in the win. It was her first solo no-hitter, falling one hit-by-pitch shy of perfection.

Game One Recap: Manhattanville 8, Sarah Lawrence 0 (Five Innings)
Wilkendorf shined as the bats clobbered three home runs to take the opening game of the day.

The junior faced one over the minimum in her five innings of work to toss her second no-hitter of the season after working with Tahlia Smith (St. Helena, Calif./St. Helena) to hold Yeshiva hitless on Mar. 19. Wilkendorf struck out eight and flirted with the Valiants' first perfect game since Charli Shinstine's against Mount Saint Vincent in 2023 after going 14 up, 14 down to start the day before missing her location on one and plunking Miriam Kanter-Goodell as the Gryphons were down to their final out. The Valiant starter rebounded to strikeout Ariana Spanopoulos for her eighth punchout of the game and earn her first solo no-no.

Offensively, the Valiants got things started in the second with Cady Sickler's (Kingston, N.Y./Kingston) first big fly of the season, a solo blast to put Manhattanville on the board 1-0. Manhattanville blew things open with a four-run third, benefitting from a pair of Gryphon errors.

Emma Foster (Santa Barbara, Calif./San Marcos) led off with a walk and stole second, with Sydni Brooks (Anaheim, Calif./Cypress) reaching and advancing on Sarah Lawrence's first error of the inning to put two in scoring position. The first cashed in on Isabella Tansey's (San Diego, Calif./University City) walk, with ball four also serving as a passed ball to chase home foster. Brooks then scored on another Gryphon error before Sickler delivered again with a two-run double to plate Tansey and Samantha Reyer (Oceanside, N.Y./Oceanside) to extend the lead to 5-0.

Manhattanville tacked on three more in the fourth, two from Bria Hospodar (Old Bethpage, N.Y./Plainview-Old Bethpage John F Kennedy) hitting her first career homer in a pinch hit appearance and the third on a solo shot from Reyer two batters later for her second home run of the season.

Wilkendorf needed just 53 pitches to toss the five-inning no-hitter as the Reyer homer put the Valiants in range for the run-rule victory.

Johanna Granillo (Reseda, Calif./Cleveland) added the Valiants' only other hit in the contest with a pinch-hit single to lead off the fourth. It was the only one of Manhattanville's five hits that did not go for extra bases.

Foster went 3-for-3 on stolen base tries, while Brooks and Breanna Ochoa (South Gate, Calif./Saint Joseph High School) each nabbed one.

Josie O'Leary's (Pawling, N.Y./Pawling) hitting streak ended at six games, while she was finally kept from scoring for the first time in nine-straight games. The sophomore had racked up 15 hits and scored 13 times as part of her respective streaks.

Game Two Recap: Manhattanville 17, Sarah Lawrence 0 (Five Innings)
Manhattanville completed the day with a season-high 17 runs in the backend of the doubleheader coupled with another stellar pitching performance, this time from Tahlia Smith (St. Helena, Calif./St. Helena).

The rookie tossed a five-inning one-hitter, allowing one walk while striking out a season-high nine. Smith has now allowed just one earned run across her last four appearances, lowering her season ERA to 3.39 while improving to 3-3 on the year.

The Valiants wasted little time getting the offense going after Foster led off the game with a triple and scored on an O'Leary single. After a Tansey double and Angelina Cruz (Oceanside, Calif./Rancho Buena Vista) single, both runner scored on Lianna Lara's (Santa Clarita, Calif./Sierra Canyon School) two-run double. Lara later crossed home on Alexa Lazur's (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) single, spotting the Valiants an early 4-0 lead.

The doors were blown open with an eight-run second as the Valiants notched five hits and the Gryphons committed four errors. O'Leary drove in Foster and Ochoa with a single, scoring two batters later on a Cruz RBI single. Lara hit another two-bagger to scored Tansey, while the Gryphons' third error of the inning allowed Reyer to reach and Cruz to score to extend Manhattanville's lead to 9-0.

After retiring the next two batters and on the verge of finally getting out of the inning, the fourth Sarah Lawrence error put Sickler on base and brought Lara home. Ochoa delivered the capper with a two-run shot, the freshman's first home run, to swell the advantage to 12-0.

Five more runs came in the third off four hits and an error. Isabel Perez (Simi Valley, Calif./Simi Valley) and Hyli De Los Santos (Tustin, Calif./Irvine) led off with a single and double to put a pair in scoring position, with an error during Cruz' at-bat allowing Perez to score. De Los Santos later scored on a bases-loaded wild pitch before Sickler and Ochoa laced back-to-back RBI singles to score Cruz and Lara, respectively. Manhattanville batted around for a second-straight inning as Perez drew a bases-loaded walk to score Granillo for the 17-0 lead.

Smith retired 11 straight batters to open her outing, striking out the first five. Her lone blemishes came with a two-out walk in the fourth and a leadoff single surrendered in the fifth before setting down the next three batters in order to close out the win.

Ochoa finished 3-for-3 on the day with three RBI and a pair of runs scored. O'Leary, Cruz, Lara and Sickler joined the rookie with multiple hits in the contest. O'Leary also accounted for all of Manhattanville's steals, successfully stealing two bases.

Up Next
The Valiants are back home tomorrow, hosting Saint Joseph's Brooklyn at noon.

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