(04-10-08)
Box Score - Game One / Box Score - Game Two
WALTHAM, Mass. -- Meg Brown allowed just two runs - one earned - while striking out nine in a complete-game effort, picking up her fifth victory of the season to help the University of New Haven softball team to a non-conference split at Bentley College on Thursday afternoon. UNH won the opener, 4-2, but lost the nightcap, 7-4.
UNH is now 10-14 on the season and will play at St. Thomas Aquinas College on Friday afternoon. Bentley is now 11-11.
GAME ONE - UNH 4, Bentley 2
Meg Brown allowed just two runs - one earned - while striking out nine in a complete-game effort, picking up her fifth victory of the season for the Chargers.
Jessica Medina collected a pair of RBI's on a double, while Jordanna Borska drove in a run and scored twice and Samantha Minervini drove in a run.
The Chargers took control immediately with a three-run first inning, paced by Medina's two-out, two-run double which followed a run-scoring single by Borska. Brown had led off the game with a double, but was erased on a fielder's choice at home, and Meghan Walter followed with a single. After a groundout, Nicole Downs reached on a fielder's choice and Borska and Medina registered their back-to-back hits.
In the third, UNH benefitted from an error at third base which allowed Borska to reach base and later plate an unearned run. With two outs, Minervini doubled her in to close out the scoring.
Bentley recorded just four hits off Brown, one each by four different players. They got a run in the first inning on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch, and got an unearned run in the sixth after a single, an errant throw and a fielder's choice groundout.
GAME TWO - Bentley 7, UNH 4
Kelsey Vella pitched 3 2/3 innings of shutout relief, striking out two while allowing just two hits to key the win. Briana Kneeland was 3-for-4 with 3 RBI's, while Christine D'Amico was 3-for-4 with a pair of runs driven in.
Both teams were offensive early, with both teams scoring in each of their first four at-bats. The difference was that Bentley got two runs in each of their first two trips, and in the fourth, while UNH got only one run in each of the innings to trail 7-4 heading to the fifth.
But they were unable to score off Vella, who replaced starter Ashley Messina (3 1/3, 4 runs, 3 earned).
Leadoff hitter Walter went 3-for-3 at the plate for UNH, scoring twice, while Borska and Brown had two hits each and drove in a run. Medina also drove in a run.
