Clermont, Fla. – The Mount Saint Mary College Softball team played its final two games in Florida on Friday, falling to Marywood 3-0 and #18 Rowan 8-1.
Bridget Morris (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) fanned eight batters in the opener with
Riley Norwood (East Haven, Conn.) driving in the team's lone run of the day against the Owls.
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Marywood 3 – Mount Saint Mary 0
How It Happened
- Mount Saint Mary was limited to four singles in the game, but loaded the bases in the first inning and put another runner in scoring position in the second.
- All the scoring took place in the top of the fifth inning when the Pacers pushed across all three of their runs.
- Mara Hamm doubled with one out in the inning to drive in Brooke McKay with the game's first run.
- Tori Para later drove in the final two runs of the contest with a two-out single.
- After threatening in the first two frames, Mount Saint Mary would not advance a runner to scoring position again until the seventh.
- Marywood finished the game with an 8-4 advantage in hits with each team committing one error in the contest.
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For The Knights
- Laura Dentato (Farmingdale, N.Y.), Samantha Bendig (Tampa, Fla.), Sophia Reed (Rockaway, N.J.) and Sofia Gannon (East Patchogue, N.Y.) all singled for the Knights.
- Olivia Ferara (Middletown, N.Y.) drew two walks.
- Morris took the tough luck loss after working 6.0 innings and allowing three runs on seven hits. Morris did not walk a batter and struck out eight.
- Dana Donnelly (Yulan, N.Y.) worked a scoreless inning of relief.
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Rowan 8 – Mount Saint Mary 1
How It Happened
- Rowan, who has won 14 straight games since dropping the season opener, jumped out front early after scoring once in the first and five more times in the second.
- Liz McCaffery drove in the first run with a groundout and added a run scoring single in the second.
- Devyn DiPasquale and Payton MacNair each sparked the big second inning with two-run base hits.
- Mount Saint Mary got on the board in the top of the fourth following a leadoff double from Bendig.
- Bendig advanced to third on a Reed base hit and later scored on an infield single off the bat of Norwood.
- Rowan answered with the final two runs of the game in the bottom of the inning.
- Abigail Pawlowski drove in the last two runs for the Owls with a two-run single.
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For The Knights
- Bendig doubled and scored the team's only run in the game.
- Reed, Gannon and Norwood all singled with Norwood also drawing a walk and driving in the team's lone run.
- Grace McDonald (Concord, N.H.) fell to 2-3 in the circle after allowing eight runs on 11 hits in 3.2 innings.
- Rory Littman (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) worked the final 2.1 innings and held Rowan off the board, allowing just two hits.
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What's Next
- The Knights return north and open the home schedule on March 21 when they play host to Rowan.