Los Angeles, Calif. - The Stevens Institute of Technology softball team used a pair of four-run innings to sweep a doubleheader at Occidental on Sunday, winning the first game 6-3 and the finale of their season-opening California trip, 7-4.
Stevens (2-2) put four on the board in their final at-bat in Game 1, then scored all seven runs between the third and fifth innings of Game 2.
How it Happened – Game 1
Entering the fifth trailing 3-0, Stevens went to work chipping away at the lead. With one out,
Emma Quattrochi singled and took second on a throwing error, then stole third before
Carmelita Murphy-Brown walked. Pinch-runner
Isabelle Won and Quattrochi pulled off a double steal, with Quattrochi plating the Ducks' first run of the game. Won scored three batters later on a two-out single from
Allison Mitloff.
Still down one in the seventh, Won led off with a single, then went first-to-third on an
Adrianna Albano sac bunt.
Maria Dante took full advantage of the RBI opportunity, tying the game with a single to center. Dante went to third and Mitloff wound up on second following a fielder's choice + throwing error, and
Madison DiSarno became the beneficiary, plating both for a 5-3 lead with a single back up the middle. After
Jessica Hsu reached on a fielder's choice,
Isabela Lipsky made it 6-3 with a double to left.
Hsu, the Ducks' starting pitcher, closed out a 120+ pitch complete game, working around a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh.
How it Happened – Game 2
Down 2-0 after two, Stevens got its first run of the game in the top of the third when Dante drove in
Kacey DiPasquale with another RBI single, who'd been hit by a pitch, with one out after Mitloff had singled her into scoring position. Next up stepped Lipsky, who delivered the biggest swing of the entire day, flipping the game with a three-run homer for a 4-2 Ducks' lead. The Tigers pulled to within one in the bottom of the inning, but the Ducks' bats came alive once again in the fifth.
Mitloff led off with a triple to left, then scored on a DiSarno bunt single, with the first-year moving to second on a throwing error. After Dante singled, then stole second, Lipsky walked to load the bases. Two batters later, Quattrochi produced the second-biggest hit of the game with a two-run double, plating DiSarno and pinch-runner
Lilian Cournoyer.
In the bottom of the sixth, Occidental had the bases loaded and the go-ahead run at the plate, but
Kyra Fischer escaped the threat, inducing a fly out to center. Fischer worked around a one-out error in the seventh to close out the win and sweep for the Ducks.
Inside the Box Score(s)
- Riley Lawrence finished the day 3-for-7 and handled all 15 total chances at shortstop without committing an error
- Mitloff went 3-for-8 across both games with three runs scored
- After walking four of the nine batters she faced yesterday, Fischer walked just one of the 36 faced on Sunday
- Quattrochi stole three bases in Game 1 without being caught, and is now 22-for-23 since the start of last season
Up Next: Stevens returns to the diamond Wednesday, February 25, for a doubleheader at Kean starting at 2:00 PM.
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