PHILADELPHIA - The Queens College softball team has now won five straight games, and moved to 5-1 on the season Friday afternoon with a pair of victories at Chestnut Hill College. The Knights earned a six-inning, 11-1 victory in the opening contest, before coming from behind to grab a 4-2 decision in the nightcap.
Game 1: Queens 11, Chestnut Hill 1 (6 inn.)
The Knights' offense exploded for 11 hits and three innings of three or more runs scored, in support of starting pitcher, freshman Isabelle Yaroch (Annandale, Va.), who fired a four-hitter with two walks and six strikeouts. Freshman Monique Roberge (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) went 2-for-4 with a double and three-run homer, while sophomore Melissa Natale (Yaphank, N.Y.) went 3-for-3 in the contest.
Junior Carla Pennolino (Middle Village, N.Y.) ripped a solo homer to start the scoring in the three-run second inning, while freshman Samantha Mattsson (Staten Island, N.Y.; 2 R, 2 RBI) doubled home classmate Cat Franzone (Bay Shore, N.Y.) and came home on junior Allison Breakey's (Frankfort, Ill.) sacrifice fly.
After Natale singled home Breakey in the fourth to push the QC lead to 4-1, Roberge's three-run blast to left field extended the advantage to 7-1 in the fifth frame. The Knights added four more runs in the sixth inning, and won the contest via the eight-run mercy rule.
Game 2: Queens 4, Chestnut Hill 2
The host Griffins took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning off eventual winning QC pitcher, sophomore Nicole Turato (Garden City, N.Y.; CG, 4 H, 7 K). But the Knights got back one run in the second inning on freshman Jennifer Shereyka's (Parlin, N.J.) sacrifice fly to score Franzone, and took the lead for good in the fourth frame when Franzone (2-for-2, 2 R, 2 RBI) homered and Breakey's (2-for-3) left-side single plated Mattsson. Queens added an insurance run in the fifth inning when Franzone doubled home Pennolino.
Interim head coach John Pisano's Knights are back in action Saturday afternoon, when they welcome Saint Anselm College to Flushing, N.Y., for a 1 p.m. twinbill.
