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#8 SOFTBALL ENDS SEASON WITH SWEEP OVER GRIFFINS
April 27, 2013

#8 SOFTBALL ENDS SEASON WITH SWEEP OVER GRIFFINS

Orangeburg, N.Y. (4/27/13) The Dominican College softball team, currently ranked eighth in the east region, ended regular season play with a double-header sweep over the visiting Griffins of Chestnut Hill College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) play at the DC Softball Field. Dominican rallied to take game one, 7-4 and won the nightcap, 9-1 in five innings.

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Orangeburg, N.Y. (4/27/13)  The Dominican College softball team, currently ranked eighth in the east region, ended regular season play with a double-header sweep over the visiting Griffins of Chestnut Hill College in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) play at the DC Softball Field.  Dominican rallied to take game one, 7-4 and won the nightcap, 9-1 in five innings.

Today marked the final home game for seniors: #6 Delaney Childers, #10 Julie Plante*, #14 Brielle Kerscher, #15 Ashley Corrao*, #20 Victoria LaPorte and #21 Kathryn Coles*.

Game One:  Dominican trailed 4-0 going into the bottom half of the fifth inning when the team rallied with seven runs.  After a lead off double by Alyssa Schwed (Kinnelon, N.J.), Plante brought her home with a two-run blast.  Later Kimberly Ragazzo (Lawrenceville, N.J.) hit a one out two-run homer run to tie the game, 4-4.  

Kerscher would later hit a key two out two-run double and Schwed had an RBI single en route to the 7-4 win.

Reliever Ragazzo got the win (9-5) in three innings of work, allowing one run on four hits.

Starter Elizabeth Hogan (San Jose, Calif.) went four innings in the no decision.

Childers and Kerscher each had two hits in the win.

Game Two:  DC took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on the squeeze bunt from rightfielder LaPorte.  The Lady Chargers added three more runs in the third inning as Ragazzo hit an RBI single and Coles followed with a two-run double to extend the lead to 3-0.

Dominican tacked on four more runs in the fourth as freshman Shannon Haukap (Edmonds, Wash.) had an RBI single and Ragazzo followed with a big three-run homer to make the score 7-0.

The Griffins scored a run in the top of the fifth inning, but the Lady Chargers ended the game in the bottom stanza as Childers hit a two out RBI single for the final 9-1 score.

Childers got the win (15-8) after allowing one run on five hits and three strikeouts.  She also led the team at the plate, going 4-4 with two runs scored.

Ragazzo finished with four RBIs in the game.

Following the games, the team honored the seniors in post-game celebration at the Hennessy Center.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.