WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (March 10, 2024) – Junior
Madison Subbiondo drove in three runs across two games and first-year
Maria Dante had two doubles and a pair of RBI, but the Stevens Institute of Technology softball team dropped both ends of a Middle Atlantic Crossover doubleheader to York College of Pennsylvania Sunday at Waterfront Park by identical 17-5 scores.
Junior
Emma Ruiz and sophomores
Rachael Prescott and
Joy Pikul each plated a run for the Ducks, who closed the day 5-3.
Morgan Sauers drove in eight runs across the two games to pace York, who improved to 6-3. The Spartans have won three straight contests. Sunday's doubleheader marked the first regular season meeting between the squads, who previously met in a neutral-site game the 2021 NCAA Erie Regional.
The Rundown
- York won the opening game on the strength of a 13-run first inning, boosted by an uncharacteristic seven walks against four Stevens hurlers, who battled a questionable strike zone in the opening inning. Conversely, York's Natalie Rietema (2-2) kept the Ducks at bay in the early innings until facing that same questionable strike zone late in the game.
- Stevens spoiled the shutout bid in the fourth. First-year Elizabeth Kirstein reached on a fielding error. Sophomore Jay Morales pinch-ran at first and advanced on a Subbiondo single. After a groundout, Prescott drove in a run with a single. With York failing to get the ball back into the circle, both Subbiondo and Prescott advanced a base, with the former scampering home with the Ducks' second run.
- In the fifth, with a steady rain falling, the Ducks struck for three runs against Rietema. First-year Larissa Cooper worked a one-out walk to reach base for the first time as a Duck. Dante and Kirstein walked to load the bases. Subbiondo followed with a two-run single up the middle and Ruiz added an RBI single to account for the Ducks' final run.
- In game two, York raced out to a 4-0 lead in the first, only for the Ducks to answer with a three-spot against Kyrsten Coppage (4-1). Ruiz walked to lead off the inning and moved around the bases with consecutive walks to first-year Emma Quattrochi and Prescott. Ruiz crossed home on a wild pitch to account for the Ducks' first run of the game. Dante followed with a hard-hit double, rallying to work a full count against Coppage, to score Prescott. Quattrochi followed right behind the Ducks' infielder, taking advantage of a York fielding error.
- After York scored six times in the third to break the game open, Pikul plated a run in the third with an RBI double and Dante slugged her second RBI double of the game in the fifth to account for the Ducks' final run.
- Sophomore Kyra Fischer (3-3) suffered the loss in both games.
Top Performers
- Quattrochi's run in game two was her first in a Stevens uniform.
- Still early in the season, the Ducks have six doubles on the year and Dante has accounted for two of them.
- Pikul's third-inning double in game two was the Poughkeepsie, New York native's first career two-bagger.
- Across the two games, Stevens drew 13 walks.
For the Opponents
- Sauers collected four of her six RBI in game two on a fifth inning grand slam.
Around the MAC Freedom
- No. 1 Trine 11, No. 19 Lebanon Valley 0 F/5 innings (Sat.)
- Arcadia 7, Wheaton 1 (Sat.)
- No. 19 Lebanon Valley 8, Kean 1 (Sat.)
- Arcadia 10, Gordon 8 (Sat.)
- FDU-Florham 8, Maine-Presque Isle 3
- Minnesota Morris 4, FDU-Florham 0
- Ithaca 10, Arcadia 5
- UMASS Dartmouth 5, Arcadia 2
Up Next
- Stevens returns to Waterfront Park on Tuesday, Mar. 12 for a non-conference doubleheader against Hunter. The Ducks have won the last six meetings in the all-time series and interestingly, nine of the last 11 games between the squads have taken place in Weehawken. Game times are set for 3 and 5 p.m. and links for live stats and video are posted to StevensDucks.com.
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