Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
CLERMONT, Fla. – Kaitlyn Crowley went 2-for-3 with a home run Friday morning at the National Training Center, but Dominican College picked up two runs in the top of the seventh inning en route to a 2-1 victory over the Queens College softball team in the opening half of a doubleheader. The Chargers also won the nightcap by a 4-1 decision over the Knights.
Game 1: Dominican 2, Queens 1
Queens rapped out six hits in the contest, and received timely pitching for most of the game from senior Bryttne Santana (CG; 7 H, 3 BB, K). However, a late-inning rally doomed the Knights as Dominican plated a pair of runs with a late rally that QC could not overcome.
Santana pitched out of runner-on-third jams in both the top of the second and third innings, inducing two infield pop-ups to kill the Dominican rally in the latter frame. Conversely, Queens had two runners on base in the bottom of the fourth inning, but could not advance them any further than second base as the game remained scoreless.
In the bottom of the fifth, Crowley provided the third Knights home run in as many contests on the Florida trip, leading off the stanza with a solo blast to stake her squad to a 1-0 advantage. Allison Breakey advanced as far as second base later in the frame, but could not come around to score.
Dominican loaded the bases in the top of the sixth inning with two outs, before Santana got the next Chargers batter to fly out to Samantha Stallone (1-for-2, SB). In the seventh frame, DC tied the score on a one-out double before the go-ahead run crossed home plate on an infield error.
Crowley rapped a one-out double to left field in the QC half of the seventh, but pinch runner Catherine Pastor could not advance any further.
Anniela Vaccaro and Caroline Carbone registered one hit apiece for the Knights in the contest.
Game 2: Dominican 4, Queens 1
The Knights (0-4) were stymied throughout the contest by Delaney Childers, who fired a complete-game four-hitter with no walks and six strikeouts for Dominican. She retired the first seven hitters she faced, before Alexandra Drago was hit by a pitch in the top of the third.
Dominican (4-4) plated three runs (one earned) in the bottom of the second off QC starter Faith Tessmer (2 IP, 4 H, 2 K), before notching one more run in the third frame off Julia Carbone.
Queens pushed across one run in the top of the sixth inning to cut the score to 4-1, and threatened to get even closer. Stallone and Tessmer knocked back-to-back, one-out singles, before Vaccaro ripped a Childers offering up the middle to plate Stallone and cut the Knights' deficit to three runs. However, a fielder's choice in the next at-bat erased Tessmer at third base and a ground out in the next at-bat ended the rally.
Santana also picked up one hit in the nightcap, while Nicole Turato pitched two innings of scoreless, three-hit ball in the fifth and sixth frames.
Queens is back in action at the National Training Center Sunday morning, when it faces American International in a twinbill that begins at 9:30 a.m.
