FP
Earns Sweep at Saint Michael’s

COLCHESTER, Vt. (April 19, 2001) - Franklin Pierce University
snapped a five-game losing streak as it swept Saint Michael’s College in a Northeast-10 Conference softball doubleheader at Doc Jacobs Field this afternoon. The Ravens posted a dramatic 3-2 win in game one, before posting an 8-4 victory in the nightcap.

Sophomore catcher Julie Haight (Fort Montgomery, N.Y./O’Neill) batted 2-for-3 and crushed the gamewinning homerun in the top of the seventh inning to lead FP
in game one. The Ravens took a 2-0 lead in the first inning as freshman Lauren Chenausky (Athol, Mass./Athol)
belted a two-run single.

Saint Michael’s got single runs in each the second and third innings to knot the score at 2-2.

Junior Shalyn Covey (San Diego, Calif./Claremont) earned her third win of the spring (3-4) as she allowed two runs, just one earned, on four hits with six strikeouts and no walks.

In the nightcap, FP
led 3-1 entering the fifth inning when it exploded for five runs to break the game open. Sophomore Carolyn Hall (Whitman, Mass./Whitman-Hansen) hit 4-4 in the game with an RBI, while senior Katelyn Kirby (North Adams, Mass./Drury) batted 3-4 with a double and two RBIs. Freshman Quinn Tremblay (Westminster, Mass./Oakmont) chipped in two hits, including a double, and scored a pair of runs. Freshman Jessica Preite (North Adams, Mass./Greylock) made her first collegiate appearance in the pitcher’s circle and earned the win.

FP
(9-15, 4-10 NE-10) returns to action on Sunday when it travels to Springfield, Mass., to face American International College for an NE-10 doubleheader at noon.

Score:
Game 1:
    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  - F FP 
2  0  0  0  0  0  0  - 3
STM 0  1  1  0  0  0  0  - 2
Game 2:
    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  - F FP 
0  1  2  0  5  0  0  - 8
STM 0  0  0  1  3  0  0  - 4