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SALISBURY, Md. - Salisbury's Kelly Leary and
Erika Brittingham held Stevenson scoreless over 14.0 innings while
surrendering just three hits and striking out eight as the No.
17-ranked Sea Gulls swept a CAC doubleheader Saturday at SU
Softball Field, 8-0 and 3-0.
The Mustangs (9-6, 1-4 CAC) have lost four-straight after
posting the best start to a season in school history with nine wins
in their first 11 games.
In the second game, Stevenson held the CAC's top hitting team
and second-ranked scoring offense to just three runs after senior
Sarah Moelter (Timonium/Dulaney) surrendered just
one earned run on six hits.
However, the Mustang offense could muster just one hit against
Brittingham who was just one out away from a no hitter before
junior Jessica Bandzwolek (Fallston/Fallston) hit
a double to center field for Stevenson's lone hit.
Bandzwolek finished the game 1-for-3.
Brittingham was only one hit and two walks from a perfect game
as she faced just three batters over the minimum.
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth when
Salisbury scored two unearned runs with two outs following a
fielding and throwing error.
The Sea Gulls added their third run on an RBI single in the
sixth by Michelle Gravhadl who finished the game 2-for-3 with one
RBI.
Leary improved her record to 9-0 on the season after allowing
just two hits and striking out six in game one while the Salisbury
offense totaled eight runs on 11 hits, highlighted by a three-run
double from Kelly Waskewicz as part of a four-run fifth inning that
invoked the mercy rule.
Waskewicz finished 1-for-3 with three RBIs while Ali Ritter was
2-for-3 with two RBIs. Ritter drove in the Sea Gulls' first two
runs of the game with RBI singles in the first and third innings.
Freshmen Carianne Sullivan
(Westminster/Westminster) and Sara DiMeglio
(Spotswood, N.J./Spotswood) were the only two players to
get a hit for Stevenson as Sullivan went 1-for-3 and DiMeglio was
1-for-2.
Junior Julianne Roper (Baltimore/Western Tech)
suffered her first loss in her last five starts after allowing 11
hits and seven earned runs over four-and-two-thirds innings.
Stevenson travels to Wesley on Sunday for the completion of game
two of a doubleheader from March 11. The Mustangs are leading 7-1
with two outs in the bottom of the fourth.
Stevenson will then host a non-conference doubleheader with
Frostburg State on Monday beginning at 3:00 p.m., at Weinberg-Fine
Stadium.