E. Kirstein
8
Winner Misericordia MISB 27-12
4
Stevens STEVENS 20-21
Winner
Misericordia MISB
27-12
8
Final
4
Stevens STEVENS
20-21
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Misericordia MISB 0 0 3 1 3 1 0 8 9 1
Stevens STEVENS 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 12 2

W: G. Cruz (7-3) L: Fischer, Kyra (10-12)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Drops MAC Freedom Tournament Opener to Misericordia, 8-4

ANNVILLE, PA. – The Stevens Institute of Technology softball team got a career-high three hits from Elizabeth Kirstein and at least one hit from eight of its nine starting batters, but dropped its opening game of the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom Tournament Thursday afternoon, 8-4 to Misericordia.
 
The Ducks' 1-through-7 hitters finished a combined 9-for-24 (.375 average) with three runs and two RBIs.

HOW IT HAPPENED
With #2 Stevens (20-21) playing as the home team as the higher seed, neither side put a runner past second base until the third, when #3 Misericordia (27-12) put three on the board. The Ducks got a run back in the bottom of the inning on an Emma Quattrochi RBI groundout, who'd led off the inning with a walk, moved to second on a Riley Lawrence sac bunt, then third on a Jessica Guerrero infield single.
 
The two teams traded a run each in the fourth, Alison Mitloff plating Kirstein with a single up the middle for the Ducks. Misericordia threatened to put the game away with another three-spot in the fifth, but the Ducks came back with two in the bottom of the inning.
 
Megan Curtis led off with a single, stole second with one out, moved to third on a groundout, then scored on a single to left by Rachael Prescott, with Prescott taking second on a Cougars' error. After Kirstein singled Prescott to third, pinch-hitter Carmelita Murphy-Brown knocked her in, pulling Stevens back within three, 7-4.
 
After Misericordia tacked on another run in the top of the sixth, Stevens put runners on first and second in the sixth, then again in the seventh, but could not bring any of them around to score, with the Cougars advancing in the winners' bracket of the double-elimination tournament.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Mitloff finished 2-for-3, hitting safely for the eighth straight game while recording at least two hits in seven of those eight contests. The first-year, whose average has not dipped below .430 over her last 29 games, raised her mark for the year to .491.
  • Curtis' stolen base in the fifth was the team's 70th of the season, tying the team record set in 2022.
  • Guerrero appeared in her 159th game as a Duck, tying the program record previously shared by Emily Sellitti, Gavriella Risman-Jones, and Stephanie Senkevich.
UP NEXT
The Ducks play #4 DeSales, who lost to #1 Lebanon Valley, 4-2, on Friday, at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon in an elimination game. The winner of that game will face either Misericordia or Lebanon Valley in another elimination game at 4:00 p.m.
 
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