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Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. (Mar. 13, 2016) - The Molloy College softball team took on a difficult task on Sunday (Mar. 13), as the Lions faced off with No. 19 Southern New Hampshire at the National Training Center Spring Games in Clermont. The Penmen were able to come away with a doubleheader sweep, winning the first contest 5-2 before run-ruling the maroon and white by an 8-0 score in the nightcap. SNHU is now 4-2 on the season while Molloy falls to 5-9 in 2016.
Game One: Southern New Hampshire 5, Molloy 2The Lions got to SNHU pitcher Sarah Lavallee (Candia, N.H.) in the first inning as senior
Tracey Balinskas (Edison, N.J.) smacked a 1-0 offering over the right-center field fence for a solo home run to put Molloy up by a run. Small ball keyed the Lions to a 2-0 lead in the third inning, as sophomore
Chrissy Heyer (Brooklyn, N.Y.) singled to lead off the inning and then scored on an RBI base hit by
Olivia Banulski (Bristol, Conn.). The Penmen responded with three runs in the fourth inning off of Molloy starter
Chelsea Hawks (Wading River, N.Y.), as Lavallee and Erin Morrissey (Commack, N.Y.) drove in runs with singles before Jessica Torsiello (Morris Plains, N.J.) knocked in the third run of the inning on an RBI groundout. Molloy mustered just one hit off of Lavallee in the final four innings, and the good-hitting pitcher cemented the victory for SNHU with a two-run big fly to left-center field on the ninth pitch of her duel with Hawks in the top of the seventh inning. The Lions managed just six hits against Lavallee in the losing effort, while SNHU pounded 14 base knocks in the contest. Lavallee and Katie Caruso (Newton, Mass.) had three hits apiece for the Penmen.
Game Two: Southern New Hampshire 8, Molloy 0 (Final/Six Innings)The maroon and white were held hitless through the first two innings, as the nineteenth-ranked team in the country scored a run in the bottom of the second inning off of Balinskas to take an early edge. Sophomore Katie Horiuchi (Livingston, N.J.) had the hit that drove in Torsiello to put the Penmen ahead in the latter game of the doubleheader and senior Lindsey Bolduc (Londonderry, N.H.) cracked a first-pitch home run in the bottom of the third inning to put SNHU ahead by two runs. Three-run frames in the fourth and sixth innings did the Lions in, as Molloy's bats were befuddled by junior pitcher Nicole Gubellini (Salem, N.H.), who got the win for the Penmen in a four-hit shutout with seven strikeouts.
Molloy will close its stint at the National Training Center on Monday (Mar. 14) with a doubleheader against Pace University, set to begin at 9 a.m.
