Softball Blanked by Notre Dame Twice

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. The Seton Hall softball team was shutout twice by Notre Dame on Sunday. The Pirates (15-17-1, 5-7) lost game one, 9-0, and game two by a 13-0 count.

The Irish quickly took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning after an RBI single from Linda Kohan and a two-run blast from Christine Lux off of starting pitcher Ashley Forsyth (Freehold, N.J.).

Notre Dame blew the game open in the third with a grand slam from Erin Marrone to extend the lead to 7-0.

In the bottom of the fourth, the Irish enforced the eight-run rule after an RBI single from Kohan and a sacrifice fly by Heather Johnson.

Forsyth took the loss and falls to 5-7 on the year. She pitched just one-third of an inning and allowed three earned runs.

In game two, Beth Northway led the contest off with a double and scored on an unconventional play on the next at-bad. Kohan singled to right field, and Reed fired a strike to the plate. Catcher Nicole Loewenstein (Joppa, Md.) did not get a tag on the runner, and Northway never touched home. After both players looked for a signal from the home-plate umpire, Northway dove and reached the plate before the tag was made.

A three-run homer from Dani Miller extended the lead to 4-0, and Alexia Clay singled to score another run.

The Irish continued to add runs in the third and fourth, scoring four runs in each inning to put the game away.

Senior Kim Schweitzer (Syracuse, N.Y.) falls to 9-7 on the year.

Seton Hall returns to action on Tuesday, April 7 at Iona for a double-header beginning at 3:00 p.m.