Mercy Softball Closes Out Season with Split Against Bridgeport
Mercy Softball Closes Out Season with Split Against
Bridgeport
Linescore Game 1
Linescore Game 2
The Mercy College softball team closed out the 2010 campaign by
splitting a doubleheader with Bridgeport. The Mavericks
(19-27; 8-20 East Coast Conference) lost game one, 6-2, and took
the rubber match 14-10. Between games, three Mavericks
players were honored for personal milestones.
Game one began with the Purple Knights getting on the scoreboard
first by scoring twice in the top of the third. Mercy
responded in the bottom of the frame as catcher Jackie Roebuck (Walden, N.Y./Chapel
Hill Christian) singled to lead off. She advanced to second
on a sacrifice bunt from Krissy
Lacik (Edison, N.J./Edison). After moving to
third on a wild pitch, Roebuck scored when Steph
Owsiany (Edison, N.J./Edison) lifted a sacrifice fly
to left. Mercy tied the game in the following inning when
freshman Ashley Johnstone (Bellmore, N.Y./John
F. Kennedy) tripled to left and scored on an error. The game
remained tied at 2-2 until the sixth when Bridgeport scored four
times to take a 6-2 lead.
After the first game, juniors Paige
Cauley (Stratford, N.J./Iona College), Kim
Curry (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Central) and Chelsea Methot (Bristol, Conn./Bristol
Central) were honored with certificates. During the course of the
season, each collected her 100th collegiate base hit.
The hits continued in game two for the Mavericks. Mercy
jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on two doubles from
Johnstone and Owsiany. Bridgeport scored twice in the second
and four times in the third to take a 6-3 advantage.
Mercy erased that lead in the bottom of the inning by scoring
six times on seven hits. Johnstone and Owsiany hit
back-to-back singles to put runners on for Cait
Rohme (Patchogue, N.Y./Suffolk C.C.), who blasted a
three-run homer to left-center. Later in the inning, the
Mavericks scored two more runs on consecutive squeeze plays from
Lacik and Curry. Lacik scored the sixth run of the inning on
an error.
Mercy added to their already large lead in the fifth as they
pushed five more runs across. Lacik hit a one-out triple and
beat the throw home on a Curry fielder's choice.
Cauley, Methot, and Johnstone hit back-to-back-to-back doubles,
increasing the lead. Johnstone later scored on a force out coming
off the bat of Rohme.
Bridgeport scored twice in the seventh, but the Mavericks won
the game 14-10.
With the split, the team finished the 2010 season with 19 wins
and eight victories in the East Coast Conference. The 19 wins is
three more than a year ago, and the highest number since 1985, when
Mercy posted a 19-9 record.
