Softball Swept at Iona

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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. The Seton Hall softball team lost a heart-breaking, 6-5, decision against Iona and then came up short, 7-5, in shortened game two. The Pirates (15-19-1) are back in action on Thursday, April 7, at Marist.

In the second inning of game one, Kealan Waldron (Oak Park, Ill.) hit a lead-off single to centerfield. Senior Shannon Pease (Binghamton, N.Y.) belted a two-run round tripper to kick off the scoring and give the Hall a 2-0 lead.

Sophomore Brittany Schillizzi (Paramus, N.J.) hit an RBI double to the gap in left center in the third to score Michelle Reed (Wrightstown, N.J.), who singled and stole second base.

Junior pitcher Ashley Forsyth (Freehold, N.J.) got into trouble by walking the first two batters she faced in the bottom of the third, then beaning a batter with one out to load the bases. Kayla O’Neil cleared the bases with a grand slam that sailed over the wall in right-center to put the Gaels on top, 4-3.

Iona loaded the bases again with one out in the bottom half of the fourth, however this time, Forsyth got out of the jam with a strikeout and a pop up to end the threat.

The Pirates tied the score after Schillizzi drew a bases loaded walk in the fifth inning. Sarah Jackson worked out of the inning by striking out Waldron and getting a force out at third to end the frame.

Pease gave Seton Hall the lead, 5-4, with one swing of the bat, jacking a solo shot to leftfield in the sixth inning.

Iona’s Melanie Hay ripped a double to left field to start the seventh inning, setting the table for Rachelle Harris. Harris ended the game with a walk-off homerun to centerfield.

Pease became just the eighth player in school history to have a multi-homer game and the first since Jenna Best went deep twice at St. John’s last season.

Forsyth drops to 5-8 on the year. She struck out six, and had allowed just one hit through the first six innings before giving up two in the seventh.

O’Neil gave the Gaels a 1-0 lead after hitting a long RBI single in the bottom of the first inning of game two.

Schillizzi doubled to the wall in centerfield to bring in Leah Menichetti (Jessup, Pa.) all the way from first base to tie the score in top of the third inning.

In the bottom of the inning, O’Neil struck again with a ground-rule double to right to give the lead back to Iona, and the Gaels tacked on three more runs in the inning to make it, 5-1.

Pease started a Pirate rally in the fourth with an opposite field blast. Freshman Nicole Loewenstein (Joppa, Md.) followed with a two-bagger off the wall in right field, and Christina Esposito (Saddle Brook, N.J.) reached base after an indecisive play by the Gael third baseman. Bontales came in to pinch-hit and drove in another run, and with runners on second and third, Reed made it 5-4 with a ground out to score Esposito.

Iona put a damper on Seton Hall’s comeback hopes in the bottom of the fourth after Harris took Kim Schweitzer (Syracuse, N.Y.) deep to bring in two runs, giving the Gaels a 7-4 edge.

The Pirates brought the tying run to the plate in the sixth inning after Esposito reached via fielder’s choice and Bontales drew a base on balls. Reed made it a two-run game with a ground out, but Deanne Algeo got Menichetti to strikeout to end the inning.

The umpires halted the game before Iona took the field in the bottom of the sixth due to darkness.

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