Softball Tops Georgetown Twice
4/17/2010 12:00:00 AM | Softball
GAME ONE BOX SCORE (.html)
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The Seton Hall softball team defeated Georgetown by scores of 3-0 and 4-2 on Saturday. The Pirates (14-23, 5-8) will look to complete the sweep of the series with the Hoyas (15-24, 5-8) on Sunday.
Senior Ashley Forsyth (Freehold, N.J.) has now thrown complete game shutouts in four of her last five outings and earned the victory in game one to even her record at 8-8. Forsyth allowed just three hits and struck out eight.
Junior Brittany Schillizzi (Paramus, N.J.) continued her torrid hitting against Georgetown. Last year, Schillizzi took starting pitcher Mackensey Carter deep in Washington, and was walked in her other two at bats. This year was no different; the second baseman hit her third home run of the year to give SHU a 1-0 lead.
In the fifth, Schillizzi delivered again with an RBI single to extend the margin to two, and freshman Brittany Hammer (Manheim, Pa.) drove in the final run of the game with a double down the rightfield line in the sixth.
Schillizzi went 3-for-3 for the game.
The Pirates went ahead in the first inning of the second contest on Nalin Bennett (East Syracuse, N.Y.) and Nicole Loewenstein (Joppa, Md.) hit consecutive doubles with two outs in the frame.
Schillizzi and Hammer each singled to start the second inning, bringing freshman Brooke Tull (Greenwood, Del.) to the dish. Tull towered her first career homer over the leftfield wall to put three important insurance runs on the board.
The Hoyas would get on the board in the top of the fourth after Kristi Preuss singled and Demetria Cipriano drew a walk to begin the frame. After getting a force out at third, Cara Savarese found the gap in left-center to cut the deficit in half.
Georgetown would put runners on in each of the last three innings, but senior pitcher Danielle Zanzalari (Carteret, N.J.) found a way out of the jam to finish the win.
Zanzalari improves to 3-4 after tossing seven innings, allowing two runs on six hits with six strikeouts. Junior Michelle Reed (Wrightstown, N.J.) finished 2-for-3 from the plate. Schillizzi is now 7-for-14 in five career games against Georgetown with two homers and four RBI.
