Felician Softball Splits Double Header With Dominican
Courtesy of Mark Mentone, Felician College SID
Lodi, NJ (4/23/07) Freshman Nicole Degenhardt (Secaucus, NJ) drove in the tying and winning runs as Felician College claimed a 7-6 Game 1 victory during its Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference softball doubleheader with visiting Dominican (N.Y.) College on Monday afternoon at Kennedy Park. Dominican scored 12 seventh-inning runs and won, 17-6, in Game 2.
In the opener, Degenhardt hit a two-run homerun with none out in the fourth inning to tie the game at 6-6. The next inning, with a runner on second base and two outs, she punched a double down the right-field foul line, plating Cortney Gavin (Kearny, NJ, who had walked, with what proved to be the winning run.
Felician had erased a 3-0 first-inning deficit on Jenna Krowl's (Kearny, NJ) grand slam homerun with none out in the second. The Chargers’ Christine Stathes (Cornwall, NY) led off the top of the fourth with a homer, and her team tacked on two unearned runs later in the inning, setting up Degenhardt’s heroics. Nicole Broecker (Staten Island, NY) (5-4) struck out nine batters in a complete game victory for the Golden Falcons.
Trailing, 5-1, heading into the top of the sixth inning of the nightcap, Dominican received a run-scoring single from Stathes, followed two batters later by a game-tying three-run homer by Melanie Hestermann (Lacey Township, NJ). After holding Felician scoreless, the Chargers put 12 of their first 13 batters on base in the seventh. Winning pitcher Danielle Garrison (Coatesville, PA) singled home the go-ahead run, and would come around again to cap the rally with a grand slam.
Garrison (5-2) allowed no earned runs in 3 1/3 innings of relief and went 3 for 4 with three runs scored and six RBI. Nicole Philpot (Dingmans Ferry, PA) and Sarah Beck (Milton, NY) were each 3 for 5. Meredith Rainer (Wantage, NJ) went 3 for 3 with two doubles and three RBI for Felician (13-14, 5-11) and Degenhardt was 4 for 5 with a double to finish 6 for 9 on the day. Dominican had 28 hits and Felician 22 in the twinbill.