Tricia Hansen with one of the Ravens' two hits & pitches in
relief
RINDGE, N.H. (April 23, 2014) – The Franklin Pierce
University softball team was limited to just a pair of hits
Wednesday, as its seven-game win streak was snapped in a 5-0
setback to Assumption at the Melissa Bisaccia Memorial Softball
Complex in Rindge, N.H.
The Ravens fell to 11-18 overall,
9-12 in the Northeast-10, and 7-10 in the Northeast Division, while
Assumption improved to 16-17, 10-10 in the NE-10, and 9-9 in the
division.
Jenn Lattal was dominant in the
pitching circle for the Greyhounds, retiring the first eight
batters she faced. After she put a pair of runners on with two outs
in the third, she got out of the jam and retired 10-straight
hitters before Courtney Caputo (Stony Brook, N.Y.)
led off the seventh with a base hit.
Lattal improved to 6-5 with three
strikeouts, one walk, and just those two hits. Tricia
Hansen (Mansfield, Mass.) had the other hit for Franklin
Pierce in the third inning.
Assumption scored twice in the
third, and tacked on a run in both the fifth, sixth, and seventh
innings. Kayli Moniz' RBI'double highlighted the third
inning, while Andrea Crowley added an RBI double as well in the
seventh, which scored Moniz on the play. Assumption pounded out 11
hits in the game.
Sophomore hurler Mandi Adee
(Kinderhook, N.Y.) suffered the loss in the pitching
circle despite going 6.0 innings, and yielding four runs on nine
hits with five walks and three strikeouts.
Franklin Pierce returns to action
Thursday when the Ravens travel to Colchester, Vt. to face Saint
Michael's in a single game beginning at 4 p.m. The Ravens won
the first two games in the season series with the Purple Knights,
as they took a doubleheader in Rindge on Tuesday. Franklin Pierce
won game one, 12-4, in five innings, and game two, 8-0, in six
innings.
For more information on Franklin
Pierce softball, please visit the team's page at http://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).
Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce softball apparel can do so
on the athletic department's online store at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)