Softball Takes Bite Out of Retrievers; Win UMBC Invite Championship

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BALTIMORE, Md. The Seton Hall softball team won the championship game of the UMBC Dawg Pound Invitational after beating UMBC, 6-1. The Pirates improve to 6-8 on the season.

The Pirates got off to a quick start, scoring three runs in the first inning. Senior Leah Menichetti (Jessup, Pa.) hit a double to leftfield, and scored on an RBI single by Kealan Waldron (Oak Park, Ill.). With the bases juiced, senior Shannon Pease (Binghamton, N.Y.) hit a ball that squirted off the Retriever shortstop’s glove to bring in two more runs.

In the second, Michelle Reed (Wrightstown, N.J.) reached with an infield single and moved to third after a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch. Freshman Nicole Loewenstein (Joppa, Md.) extended the lead to 4-0 after a sacrifice fly.

Forsyth took a perfect game into the fifth inning, but Julia Culotta led-off with an infield single. UMBC notched two more seeing-eye singles to load the bases with two outs. Forsyth got out of the jam by getting a fly out to centerfield.

Sophomore Brittany Schillizzi (Paramus, N.J.) added an insurance run with a solo-shot over the leftfield wall. The big fly was Schillizzi’s second of the year.

The Pirates extended the lead in the seventh with a sac fly from Kristen Kaelin (Parlin, N.J.).

Junior Ashley Forsyth (Freehold, N.J.) threw another superb game, and improved to 2-4 on the season. Forsyth went the whole way, allowing six hits and striking out seven. She took a perfect-game into the fifth inning.

An all-tournament team will be announced on Monday and will be posted on SHUPirates.com after the team is chosen. 

Seton Hall returns to action next weekend at the Maryland Invitational in College Park, Md.