April 12, 2006
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - The Marist Softball squad split a double header with Lehigh on Wednesday afternoon, winning game one 4-0 before dropping a 9-0 decision in game two. Bridget Hurlman's (Yonkers, N.Y.) pinch-hit, two-out grand slam gave Marist the win, while Megan Rigos (Pittsburgh, Pa.) got her fifteenth win on the season.
Game one quickly became a pitcher's dual between Lehigh starter Kate Arico and Rigos. Neither team could push anything across, until Hurlman came to the plate in the home half of the fifth inning. Arico got the first two outs of the fifth before being lifted for Lisa Sweeney with the bases loaded. Hurlman, who was hitting for Annie Castellano (Happauge, N.Y.), worked the count full before taking the 3-2 pitch just over the left field fence for the grand slam. The blast was Hurlman's second on the season.
Rigos made the four run cushion stand as she finished off her seventeenth complete game of the season. In pushing her record to 15-3 on the season, Rigos gave up four hits and struck out five. She walked no one in the win, which was her fourth shutout of the season.
Freshman Melissa Giordano (Stamford, Conn.) was a perfect 3-3 at the plate in game one and scored a run.
Lehigh returned the favor in game two, as it shutout the Red Foxes 9-0, sending Marist to its second loss in four games after winning 15 straight. After Sweeney surrendered the grad slam in game one, she started in game two and gave up nothing. She went five innings giving up just two base hits. She struck out 10 Marist batters and walked just one. Stefani Forlenza came on to close out the sixth in the shortened game.
Not only was Sweeney dominate on the mound, she was 3-3 at the plate with a double and 2 RBI. Mary Wieder went 2-3 with 3 RBI for the Mountain Hawks in the win.
Chrystine McHugh (Port Ewen, N.Y.) and Hurlman picked up the only two hits for Marist in the game.
Lehigh scored the eventual game wining run in the second inning, but would open the game up in the later innings when it plated five in the fifth and two more in the sixth.
With the split Marist stands at 24-7 on the season and will be back in action on Thursday afternoon when it travels to Fordham. First pitch for the double header in scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
