Rockville Centre, N.Y. - The softball team opened up the home portion of the 2026 season with a doubleheader split against the University of Bridgeport. At the end of the afternoon, the Lions sat at 6-12 on the season while UB was 15-11. 

Game One: Bridgeport 11, Molloy 7

• The teams combined for nearly 30 hits in a high-powered offensive battle in the first game. The edge came from timely scoring from the visitors, scoring in six of seven innings. 
• The afternoon started with a lead-off home run from Sydnee Perreault to put UB in front before freshman Ava Zicchinelli settled in, striking out two in the first inning. 
• Perreault's red-hot day continued with a two-run triple in the second before two more runs came home on three hits and an error in the third to make it 6-0. 
• Back-to-back singles from redshirt sophomore Alexis Montgomery and senior Mae Savage kicked off the home half of the inning. A ground out from senior Emily McGurk put Montgomery just 60 feet from home and enabled her to score on a sacrifice fly to left field from junior Stevie Dabbadie to put Molloy on the board. 
• Two more errors and two more hits in the top of the fourth made it 8-1 in favor of the Purple Knights.
• The Lions' offense roared to life in the home half of the inning, scoring four runs on six hits, hitting through the entire line up, to come within three. 
• After a lead-off infield single from Zicchnielli, sophomore Megan Wegel picked up an RBI with a double to right center field. A single from sophomore Casey Kissinger put runners at the corner, allowing Montgomery's well-placed single through the left side to plate another run and make it 8-3. 
• Savage followed with a single to right field, plating another run, before beating out a throw to second following a fielder's choice from McGurk to load the bases. 
• Dabbadie sent a single up the middle to round out the inning's scoring. 
• In the circle in relief, Dabbadie limited the Purple Knights to just one run in the fifth. 
• Back-to-back doubles from Wegel and Kissinger paired with a walk to Montgomery loaded the bases for the Lions once again in the home half of the fifth inning. Savage picked up her second RBI with a ground out before a left field single from McGurk worked Molloy back within two, 9-7. 
• Bridgeport added two more runs in the sixth inning to make it 11-7. Molloy had base runners in both the sixth and seventh innings, but were unable to outscore the early deficit. 
• Savage (3-for-5) and Wegel (3-for-3 with a career-best three doubles) led the offense. Savage and Dabbadie (1-for-4) each drove in two runs. 
• McGurk (2-for-4), Kissinger (2-for-4), and Montgomery (2-for-3) each had multi-hit games. 

Game Two: Molloy 4, Bridgeport 3

• The Purple Knights jumped ahead in the first inning for the second-straight game with an RBI double from Paityn Thibodeaux. 
• Savage kicked off the bottom half of the inning with a single up the middle before scoring on a double from Dabbadie. With runners on second and third, a ground out from Zicchinelli plated a run and put Molloy in front, 2-1, for the first time on the afternoon.
• A solo home run from Sophia Philippou tied the game in the second.
• Bridgeport was able to capitalize on a fielding error in the fourth inning to go in front 3-2. 
• Molloy immediately responded in the home half of the inning. Freshman Skyler Secondino doubled to lead off the inning before a single to center field from Kissinger put runners at the corners, allowing a run to score on a ground out from Savage, tying the game at three.
• The Molloy defense turned a crucial double play in the fifth before Secondino forced three-straight fly outs in the sixth to keep the score knotted. 
• Kissinger drew a walk in the home half of the sixth inning before stealing second one batter later. Running on contact with two outs during Savage's at bat, the short stop was able to score following a fielding error to put the Lions back in front. 
• With the tying run on first base in the top of the seventh, Secondino struck out Perreault on three pitches to pick up her third-straight win. The rookie struck out two and allowed just two earned runs in the victory and added an extra base hit of her own at the plate.
• Savage, Dabbadie, and Zicchinelli tallied RBIs for Molloy with five batters recording hits, two of which were for extra bases. 
• Kissinger stole a career-best two bases. 

Up Next
Molloy opens East Coast Conferece play on Saturday (Mar. 28) at 12:00 p.m. at the College of Staten Island.