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SOFTBALL FALLS IN EAST 2 REGIONAL FINALS
May 6, 2012

SOFTBALL FALLS IN EAST 2 REGIONAL FINALS

Brookville, NY (5/6/12) The Dominican College softball team, ranked sixth in the East Region, fell twice today to #2 Molloy College in the NCAA Division II East 2 Regional Finals. With the losses, Dominican is eliminated from the tournament and ends the season with an 39-17 overall record.

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Brookville, NY (5/6/12)  The Dominican College softball team, ranked sixth in the East Region, fell twice today to #2 Molloy College in the NCAA Division II East 2 Regional Finals.  With the losses, Dominican is eliminated from the tournament and ends the season with an 39-17 overall record.

Game One:  DC fell in game one, 5-0 to the Lions.  Molloy pitching limited the Lady Chargers to just four hits.

Katrina Pistilli* (Staten Island, NY) suffered the loss (15-9), allowing five runs (three earned) on seven hits.

Game Two: The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth inning when Molloy struck with a run for a 1-0 lead.

The Lady Chargers came back with two runs in the sixth inning as rightfielder Shelby Wassmann (Loudoun, VA) hit her fourth home run of the year to left center field to plate two runs and give DC the 2-1 advantage.

MC tied the contest in the bottom stanza, but Dominican regained the lead in the top of the seventh inning as senior Ashley Martinez* (Bloomfield, NJ) was hit by a pitch and shortstop Julie Plante* (Swansea, MA) followed with a double the allowed Martinez to score all the way from first base to put Dominican up 3-2.

With two one, two outs and the Lions down to the final strike, the batter hit a single to left field to score two runs and give the Lions the 4-3 victory.

Delaney Childers (Johnstown, OH) took the loss (24-8), allowing four runs on eight hits.

Wassmann went 2-3 with two RBIs in game two.

Molloy now advances to the East Region Super Regionals next weekend.

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.