NORTHEAST-10 CONFERENCE SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT
DAY 1 - GAMES PLAYED AT
BRYANT UNIVERSITY
Game 1 - #4 Le Moyne 2,
#5 Assumption 0
Game 3 - #1 Bryant 5, #4
Le Moyne 0
BRYANT DEFEATS LE MOYNE 5-0 IN FIRST ROUND OF NE-10 TOURNEY
SMITHFIELD, RI - Bryant junior shortstop Amanda Gagne went 2 for 4 with three RBIs while sophomore Janine Enos (Wareham, Mass.) pitched a complete-game 3-hitter as the Bryant softball team, seeded No. 1, opened the Northeast-10 Conference tournament with a 5-0 win over fourth-seeded Le Moyne Friday afternoon at the Bryant Softball Complex.
The Bulldogs will advance in the winners bracket where they will face UMass Lowell Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. Le Moyne, which defeated Assumption 2-0 in the opener, will meet Southern New Hampshire in an elimination game Saturday at noon. That game will be played at Brown University in Providence.
Bryant, the Northeast-10 Conference regular season champion and defending conference tournament champion, got on the board early as Gagne belted a double to left and came home to score when senior Jordan Dargon (Trumbull, Conn.) hit a double to the fence in left field to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.
In the second, it was Gagne once again drilling a bases loaded double to left to put Bryant on top 4-0. For Enos, the runs were all she needed to collect her 12th win of the season.
Le Moyne's Lindsay Spaziani (Horseheads, NY) led off the game with a single up the middle off Enos. Lyndsey Balinskas (Edison, NJ) would follow with a walk, but Enos would settle down from there. After retiring the next three batters to end the inning, Enos would retire the next eight batters before giving up a single to Balinskas in the third. From there, Le Moyne could only manage a sixth inning double by Kristin DesLauriers (Liverpool, NY) as the Bulldogs would hold on for the win.
GAME 1 - #4 Le Moyne 2, #5 Assumption 0
SMITHFIELD, RI - Le Moyne sophomore pitcher Sarah Reed (De Witt, NY) pitched a complete-game two-hitter in leading the fourth-seeded Dolphins to a 2-0 win over number five seed Assumption College in first round action of the 2006 Northeast-10 Conference Softball Tournament Friday at Bryant University.
Reed fanned eight Assumption batters in the game and took a one hitter into the sixth inning allowing only a third inning leadoff double to Amanda Monge (Reading, Mass.). The double would not effect Reed as she proceeded to strike out the next Assumption batters.
Le Moyne (28-17) would get all the runs they would need in the bottom of the fourth as Melissa Quimby (Baldwinsville, NY) led off with a single and was followed by a single from Kristen DesLauriers (Liverpool, NY). Reed would help her own cause by lining a single to right to score Quimby from second. Emma Murphy would follow Reed with an RBI groundout to shortstop scoring DesLauriers from third.
Ashley Anderson (Liverpool, NY) had two of Le Moyne's seven hits on the afternoon. Assumption (30-19) will face the loser of today's Southern Connecticut - U Mass Lowell game on Saturday.
DAY 1 - GAMES PLAYED AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Game 2 - #6 Southern Connecticut 1, #3 Southern New Hampshire 0
Game 4 - #2
UMass Lowell 4, #4 Southern
Connecticut 1
Game 2 #6 Southern Connecticut
1, #3 Southern New Hampshire
0
PROVIDENCE,
R.I. - Junior Emily Atkinson's (Novato,
CA) RBI single in the top of the sixth innings snapped a
scoreless tie and lifted sixth-seeded Southern Connecticut State
University to a 1-0 victory over third-seeded Southern New
Hampshire University here today in opening day action of the 2006
Northeast-10 Conference Softball Tournament. SNHU, which is
making its first-ever appearance in the NE-10 playoffs, dropped to
21-20 and will now face fourth-seeded Le Moyne College in an
elimination game tomorrow (5/6). The will be played at Bryant
University at noon.
Le Moyne defeated fifth-seeded Assumption 2-1 in its first game
today, before losing to top-seeded Bryant, 5-0. Second seeded
UMass-Lowell defeated SCSU, 4-1, in its only game of the day. If
SNHU defeats Le Moyne, the Penmen will play the winner of the other
elimination game between Assumption and SCSU. The game will be
played at Brown University at 3:30 p.m.
Today's game featured a pitching duel between SNHU's Ashley Smith (Franklin, NH) and SCSU Jessica Dempsey (Stratford, CT). Smith went the distance and scattered five hits and issued just one walk. She also recorded her 200th career strikeout. Dempsey went the distance as well and allowed seven hits. She fanned three and issued just one walk as well.
SNHU nearly took the lead in the bottom of the first inning.
Sophomore Karissa Bettencourt (Norton, MA) reached
on a fielder's choice and tried to score from first following a
double to left center by junior Felicia Brum (Braintree,
MA), but was throw out at the plate by SCSU shortstop
Kierstin Pry (Trumbull, CT).
Freshman Monica Savarese (Orange, CT) led off the SCSU sixth with an infield single, and advanced to second following a sacrifice bunt by Pry. Atkinson followed with a RBI single to leftfield.
Bettencourt lined a one-out double in the bottom of the sixth, but Dempsey got the next two batters to pop up to end the threat. The Penmen has runners at first and second with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but once again Dempsey forced the next two batters to pop up to secure the win. Freshman Ashley Bernstein (Stoughton, MA) went 2-for-3 for SNHU, while Savarese had two of SCSU's five hits.
Game 4 #2 UMass Lowell 4, #6 Southern Connecticut 1
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sophomore Brie
O'Brien (Los Angeles, CA) had a bases clearing double in
the fifth that snapped a 1-1 tie and lifted second-seeded UMass
Lowell to a 4-1 victory over sixth-seeded Southern Connecticut
State University in Providence today in opening day action of the
2006 Northeast-10 Conference Softball Tournament. UMass
Lowell improves to 32-18 overall while Southern Connecticut falls
to 22-23-3.
The River Hawks jumped on the board in the home half of the first inning on an RBI double by junior Laurie Tanguay (Lowell, MA). Southern Connecticut answered in the top of the third tying the game at 1-1 on an RBI single by junior Emily Atkinson (Novato, CA).
O'Brien broke the tie in the fifth with a three RBI double down the right field line to give UMass Lowell a 4-1 lead. She finished 2-3 with three RBI's. Relief pitcher Cyrilla Suker (Voorheesville, NY) pitched the final two innings retiring six straight batters to end the game. Junior starting pitcher Kristen Mahoney (Burlington, MA) tossed the first five innings scattering seven hits and did not allow an earned run.
Atkinson and freshman Brittany Gandley (Holbrook, NY) each finished with two hits to lead the Owls at the plate.
Friday's Results:
Le Moyne 2, Assumption 0 Boxscore
Bryant 5, Le Moyne 0 Boxscore
Southern Connecticut 1, Southern N.H. 0 Boxscore
UMass Lowell 4, Southern Connecticut 1 Boxscore
Saturday's Schedule:
12 pm - Southern New Hampshire vs. Le Moyne (at Bryant) - elimination game
12 pm - Assumption vs. Southern Connecticut (at Brown) - elimination game
3:30 pm - Bryant vs. UMass Lowell (at Bryant)
3:30 pm - SNHU / Le Moyne winner vs. Assumption / So. Conn winner (at Brown)
