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SOFTBALL LOSES TWO TO YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE
March 4, 2013

SOFTBALL LOSES TWO TO YOUNG HARRIS COLLEGE

Clermont, Fla. (3/4/13) The Dominican College softball squad evened up their record today with two losses to Young Harris College in games played at the National Training Center. The Lady Chargers fell in game one, 6-5 and lost the night cap, 9-3 to now stand at 2-2 on the season.

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Clermont, Fla. (3/4/13)  The Dominican College softball squad evened up their record today with two losses to Young Harris College in games played at the National Training Center.  The Lady Chargers fell in game one, 6-5 and lost the night cap, 9-3 to now stand at 2-2 on the season.

Game One: DC led 2-0 after two innings of play as freshman Kimberly Ragazzo (Lawrence, N.J.) hit an RBI fielder's choice in the first and Julie Plante* (Swansea, Mass.) singled home a run in the second.

Young Harris College rallied with a run in the third, fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-2 advantage, but the Lady Chargers tied the game in the sixth as Ragazzo scored on a bases loaded wild pitch to make the score 3-3.  The Mountain Lions put three runs on the board in the bottom half of the sixth inning to pull ahead 6-3 and Ragazzo closed out the scoring with a two-run blast, her second home run in two days, for the final 6-5 loss.

Ragzzo had a team leading three RBIs in the game, while Plante and Paige Berzak (Cypress, Calif.) each had two hits.

Delaney Childers (Johnstown, Ohio) suffered the loss (1-1) in three innings of relief work, allowing five runs (two earned) on seven hits. 

Game Two: YHC never trailed in the second game as they took a 2-0 lead after two innings.  Dominican got on the board in the third inning as senior Ashley Corrao* (Staten Island, N.Y.) hit an RBI single to left field to make the score 2-1.

The Mountain Lions scored four runs in their half of the fourth and the Lady Chargers tallied one in the bottom stanza on an error to cut the lead to 6-2.

Three more runs by YHC in the sixth extended the lead to 9-2 and freshman Shannon Haukap (Edmonds, Wash.) ended the scoring with her first collegiate home run with two outs for the final 9-3 loss.

Corrao went 2-3 with an RBI in the loss.

Ragazzo suffered the loss (0-1) allowing nine runs (eight earned) on 14 hits and three strikeouts.

Dominican returns to action tomorrow as they take on Eckerd College in a double-header slated to begin at 5pm.

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.