Purple Knights take first game, 12-1, but Ravens come back for
9-1 game-two win
Boxscore Game
One
Boxscore Game
Two
Kate Surgen was 3-for-5, drove in two runs and scored twice on
Wednesday against Saint Michael's.
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RINDGE, N.H. (April 30,
2008) - The Franklin Pierce University
softball team completed its 2008 season with a Northeast-10
Conference doubleheader split against Saint Michael's College on a
blustery Senior Day at the Franklin Pierce Softball Field. The
Purple Knights used a 10-run sixth inning to earn a 12-1 win in six
innings in the first game, but the Ravens came back with a 9-1,
five-inning victory in the nightcap.
Senior captain Kate Surgen
(Southampton, Mass./Hampshire Regional) led the Ravens on
Senior Day with three hits in five at-bats, two runs batted in and
two runs scored. By playing in both games today, Surgen set a new
program record with 152 career games played. Junior
Stephanie Howard (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) also
went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI, while junior Elaine
Matthews (Roslindale, Mass./Archbishop Williams) had two
hits, drove in a run and scored three times.
Junior Ashley Harkins (Colchester,
Vt./Colchester) paced the Saint Michael's attack with a 3-for-6
showing with four RBI and two runs scored, while freshmen Meghan
Colitti (Dover, N.H./ Berwick Academy) and Kristen Haungs
(Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) each went 2-for-4 with two RBI and at
least one run scored.
Saint Michael's 12,
Franklin Pierce 1 (Game One)
Saint Michael's blew open a close
game in the front end of the doubleheader with a 10-run sixth
inning to take a 12-1 win in six innings.
Junior Megan O'Connor (Georgetown,
Mass./Georgetown) was the beneficiary of the late run support,
earning the win (6-15). O'Connor scattered eight hits and struck
out six, all coming in the first three frames, in six innings of
work.
Senior Becky Aalto
(Hubbardston, Mass./Gardner) got the start on Senior Day
for Franklin Pierce and pitched well for five innings before being
hit hard in the sixth. Aalto (0-4) was charged with nine runs (five
earned) on eight hits in 5.1 innings, despite giving up just two
runs and four hits through five frames.
Stephanie Howard hit 2-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs against
Saint Michael's on Wednesday.
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Surgen and sophomore
Kristen Tracy (Putnam Valley, N.Y./Walter Panas)
each went 2-for-3 in the game for the Ravens, while Billings went
2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored and Colitti added two hits,
two RBI and scored twice.
Saint Michael's sent 13 batters to
the plate and scored 10 times in the sixth inning to break open a
2-1 game. O'Connor began the rally with an RBI single to tie the
game at two, and Colitti followed later with a two-run double to
center to make the score 5-2. Harkins, in her second at-bat of the
inning, allowed the game to end early by clearing the bases with a
triple to right field, scoring three runs and giving the Purple
Knights an 11-1 edge.
Franklin Pierce held a 1-0 lead
after two innings of play, as senior Lauren Bentson
(Jamaica Plain, Mass./Fontbonne Academy) flared a single
to right with the bases loaded to score Surgen for the game's first
run. The Ravens could not get another run across the plate despite
having the bases loaded with one out, however, and Saint Michael's
responded with the final 12 runs of the afternoon.
Franklin Pierce 9, Saint
Michael's 1 (Game Two)
The Franklin Pierce offense
capitalized on six Purple Knights errors in the second game of the
day, scoring three times in the first inning and cruising to a 9-1
win in five innings.
Matthews led the home team with a
2-for-3 effort, scoring three times and driving in one, while
Surgen and Howard each went 1-for-2 and drove in two runs.
Junior Courtney Jacobs
(Fitchburg, Mass./Fitchburg) picked up her fifth win of
the season (5-13) for Franklin Pierce, giving up only one earned
run on seven hits in five innings. O'Connor gave up eight runs in
3.1 innings to take the loss (6-16) in her second start of the day,
despite only one of the runs being earned.
Franklin Pierce wasted little time
in getting on the board in the first inning, as the Ravens scored
three unearned runs without the benefit of a hit. Freshman
Emily Griffin (Leominster, Mass./Leominster) led
off by reaching on an error by the shortstop Harkins, and came
around to score on a hit batter and a throwing error by Harkins on
a fielder's choice attempt. Junior Jackie Prybella
(Marshfield, Mass./Marshfield), who was hit by a pitch,
scored from third on an illegal pitch by O'Connor, and Surgen
knocked in the third run of the frame on a sacrifice fly that was
subsequently dropped by the right fielder.
After a pair of runs in the third
inning on an error and a single by Howard, Franklin Pierce scored
four times in the bottom of the fourth inning to invoke the mercy
rule. Matthews got the team started with an RBI single through the
right side, while Surgen and Howard also knocked in runs with a
single and a sacrifice fly, respectively.
Down by eight runs, Saint Michael's
threatened to extend the game by nearly mounting a two-out rally in
the top of the fifth. After Jacobs got two of the first three
batters to pop out, a hit batter put a runner in scoring position
and Harkins followed with a single to center, but a perfect relay
from Prybella to Matthews to Surgen cut down Haungs at the plate to
prevent the score and end the game.
With the win, Franklin Pierce
completes its 2008 season with a 9-33 record, including an 8-20
mark in the Northeast-10. Saint Michael's also sees its season come
to a close with an 8-29 overall record and a 2-26 conference mark.
