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TOP SEEDED LADY CHARGERS WIN TWO ON DAY ONE OF CACC SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
April 26, 2012

TOP SEEDED LADY CHARGERS WIN TWO ON DAY ONE OF CACC SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Lakewood, NJ (4/26/12) The top-seeded Dominican College softball team advanced into the winner's bracket with two come-from-behind victories at the 2012 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Softball Championships being hosted by Georgian Court University. DC won their first game over #8 Holy Family University, 5-4, in eight innings and rallied from a 2-0 deficit to defeat #5 Post University, 11-3 in six innings.

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Lakewood, NJ (4/26/12)  The top-seeded Dominican College softball team advanced into the winner's bracket with two come-from-behind victories at the 2012 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Softball Championships being hosted by Georgian Court University.  DC won their first game over #8 Holy Family University, 5-4, in eight innings and rallied from a 2-0 deficit to defeat #5 Post University, 11-3 in six innings.

Game One:  Dominican took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning as junior shortstop Julie Plante* (Swansea, MA) led off the inning with a solo home run over the right field fence.  The Tigers pulled ahead with two runs in the second and fourth inning to go up 4-1.

The Lady Chargers came back to tie the game in the sixth as Delaney Childers (Johnstown, OH) singled to center field with two runners on base.  A fielding and throwing error by the Tigers allowed all three runners to score and tie the game at 4-4.

In the eighth inning, Childers led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on the sacrifice bunt by Shelby Wassmann (Loudoun, VA).  Sophomore Paige Berzak (Cypress, CA) through the right side and brought home Childers for the game-winning run and 5-4 victory.

Childers and Berzak each had two hits.

Senior Katrina Pistilli* (Staten Island, NY) went four innings in the no decision, allowing four runs on seven hits and three strikeouts.  Childers picked up the win (20-7) in four innings, scattering just one hit and striking out five batters.

Game Two:  The Lady Chargers trailed 3-0 after four and a half innings when the team exploded for a six-run bottom of the fourth.  Junior Kathryn Coles (Farmville, VA) drew a bases loaded walk to bring home a run and Brielle Kerscher (Staten Island, NY) followed with an RBI fielder's choice.  Plante later delivered her second home run of the day, this time a grand slam to right center to give DC a 6-3 lead.

Dominican added a run in the fifth on a solo home run to center field off the bat of Childers and closed out the game with four runs in the sixth for the 11-3 victory.  In the sixth, Plante picked up her fifth RBI of the game with a single up-the-middle and catcher Ashley Corrao (Staten Island, NY) followed two batters later with a single down the left field line.  Childers ended the game with a two-run double to left center field.

Childers got the game two win (21-7) after allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits

Dominican is back in action tomorrow at 2pm at the CACC Softball Championships.

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.