Softball concludes 2012 season
RINDGE, N.H. (April 21, 2012) -- The Franklin Pierce
University softball team concluded its 2012 season on Saturday as
the Ravens were swept by Le Moyne in a doubleheader at the FPU
Softball Field in Rindge. The Dolphins took game one, 10-3, and
then capped the afternoon with an 8-1 triumph in game two. Franklin
Pierce concluded its season with a 9-30 overall record and a 7-23
mark in the Northeast-10, while Le Moyne improved to 26-24 and
20-10 in league play.
The Dolphins exploded for nine runs
in the third inning of game one to set the tone for the day. Morgan
Edmondson singled home a pair of runs to start the surge and Barb
Shea and Demetra Kermidas capped it with a pair of home runs.
Kermidas' was a three-run shot which cleared the wall in right
field, and Shea's was a grand slam that left the field over the
wall in left-center field.
Leah Ford added a solo homer for
the Dolphins in the fifth inning to extend their lead to 10-0.
Franklin Pierce tried to rally and pushed across a trio of runs
with two outs in the bottom half of the frame to cut the deficit to
seven. Freshman Alicia Dean (Danvers, Mass.)
singled to center to begin the rally, as the hit brought home
senior Nikki Pratt (Gardner, Mass.), who legged
out an infield single earlier in the frame. Junior Megan
Bird (Laconia, N.H.) followed Dean with an RBI single of
her own, scoring freshman Alyssa Dolson (Northbridge,
Mass.), who reached via a walk. Dean scored later in the
frame on an error by the Le Moyne catcher.
The Ravens couldn't muster more of
a rally in falling in game one. Le Moyne starting pitcher Sarah
Harrison earned the win to run her record to 23-15 on the season as
she struck out nine and gave up just one hit over four shutout
innings. Rachel Allen (Hull, Mass.) got the start
in the circle for the Ravens and suffered the loss to fall to 3-13
after yielding five runs on six hits over two-plus innings.
Le Moyne continued to swing the hot
bats early in game two and scored twice in the second inning to go
up 2-0. The Ravens, though, countered and cut the deficit in half
to 2-1 in the third inning as senior Jayme Bilafer
(Concord, Mass.) smacked a one-out double and eventually
came around to score on an RBI single from classmate Jamie
Verner (Natick, Mass.).
The Dolphins, though, responded and
put the game out of reach with two runs in the fifth, one in the
sixth and three more in the seventh. Le Moyne's two runs in the
fifth came on one swing of the bat from Shea as she launched a
two-run homer, scoring Kelcie Cashel, who singled earlier in the
frame.
Harrison also pitched game two for
Le Moyne and earned the win to improve to 24-15 after she went all
seven innings, yielding one run on five hits with six strikeouts.
Franklin Pierce freshman pitcher Jessica Colson (Feeding
Hills, Mass.) started and lasted just three innings while
suffering the loss to fall to 2-8 on the year. She gave up two runs
on four hits with a strikeout.
For more information on Franklin
Pierce softball, please visit the team's page at
athletics.franklinpierce.edu(.) To follow the program even further,
please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on YouTube
(www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports), Twitter
(www.twitter.com/FPUathletics) and Facebook
(www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens).
