Game #1 Box Score
Game #2 Box Score
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The University of Hartford softball team was swept in a doubleheader by the Stony Brook Seawolves on Saturday afternoon. The Hawks fell 7-2 in the opening game and suffered an 8-0 loss in the nightcap. Hartford wraps up the three-game conference series on Sunday at 12 p.m.
Hartford falls to 14-9 overall with a 2-6 mark in the America East while Stony Brook improves to 17-11 overall and 5-3 and the conference.
The Hawks only managed three hits off Stony Brook pitcher Struzenberg. The hurler struck out seven Hartford batters, allowing just a pair of earned runs. She improves to 11-6 on the season. Hartford's lone hits came off the bats of Amanda Dilworth, Nicole Springer and Rachel Clonick.
Stony Brook dented the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the first inning and rallied for three more in the second to take an early 5-0 advantage over the Hawks. The Seawolves cushioned their lead with single runs in the fifth and sixth frames.
Dilworth scored on the Hawks' only extra-base hit, a double to left field in the third inning. Hartford scratched its second run across the scoreboard in the fifth inning on Springer's two-out single, scoring Jessica Oliveira.
Senior Brittney Stratton suffered the loss inside the circle. The hurler allowed seven runs – three earned – on 10 hits and struck out a pair of Seawolves. She falls to 7-4.
In the nightcap, Stony Brook's Jacobs threw a two-hit shutout in five innings to earn her fourth win of the season. The hurler struck out five batters in the mercy-rule victory.
Dilworth and Jordan Haines each managed hits against Jacobs.
Stony Brook dented the scoreboard with three runs in the third inning and followed up with three more in the bottom of the fourth. Kavitsky knocked in the first run of the game on an RBI single down the left field line while Tenuto's left center double crossed a pair of runs in the third.
In the fourth, the Seawolves used five hits to plate three runs. Stony Brook sealed the game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth to earn the mercy-rule win.
