Seton Hall University
Saint Peter's
Hall Tops SPU on Record Setting Day
4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM | Softball
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – It was a record setting afternoon for the Seton Hall University softball team as the Pirates picked up a 16-0 victory at Saint Peter’s University on Tuesday afternoon at Jaroscahak Field in Jersey City, N.J.
Seton Hall scored its 16 runs on 19 hits with six extra-base hits, three home runs and three doubles. The total runs and hits both tied the school records set in a 16-15 win at Syracuse earlier this month. The 16-run margin of victory however set a new school record, breaking the old mark of 15 runs, accomplished twice, the last time coming in a 15-0 win over Maryland Eastern Shore back on March 15, 1997.
Team records weren’t the only program marks in the cross hairs on Tuesday. With a stolen base in the first inning freshman Yasmin Harrell (Cheektowaga, N.Y.) set a new Seton Hall single-season record with 28 steals on the year. She went on to swipe another base in the second inning to make it 29.
Harrell also extended her current hitting streak to 11-straight games, leaving her one game shy of tying the Seton Hall single-season record of 12-straight games with a base hit.
Sophomore Sara Haefeli (Montclair, N.J.) blasted a pair of home runs in the win, a three-run shot out to left in the top of the first inning and a two-run laser over the wall in left field in the fifth.
She tied the school record by homering twice in the same game and it is just the 11th time in program history the same player has hit two home runs; junior Meredith Henze (Elkton, Md.) was the last to do so with a pair of homers against Lafayette in 2011.
Seton Hall scored seven runs before an out was recorded in the top of the first. Harrell led off the game with a bunt single and went on to swipe her record-setting 28th base just moments later. The Pirates would load the bases for junior Maria DeLuca (Cedar Grove, N.J.), who delivered a two-RBI single to center to make it 2-0.
Two batters later Henze doubled down the left field line, extending the SHU lead to 4-0. That prompted a Saint Peter’s pitching change as Shelby Beaver came in to replace starter Erica Colon. She was welcomed to the game by Haefeli who socked her first home run of the day on a full count pitch.
The Pirates would add two more runs later in the first, with DeLuca recording her second RBI-base hit of the inning, this time a double to left center to score senior Brittany Hammer (Manheim, Pa.) and sophomore Casey Moses (Lower Burrell, Pa.).
Sophomore Danielle DeStaso (Congers, N.Y.) retired the Peacocks in order in the bottom of the first and then the Seton Hall offense wasted no time getting back to work in the second. Casey Moses hit a one out single to left field before freshman Jackie DiPietro (Horsham, Pa.) hammered the first home run of her career, a two-run blast out to left.
Hammer rounded out the three-run second inning with an RBI double to center, scoring Harrell on the play. Sophomore Sam DeMasi (Lockport, Ill.) came up with an RBI single to left in the fourth inning and Haefeli’s second homer and Hammer’s second RBI of the game in the fifth accounted for SHU’s final runs.
A total of 11 players pitched in for the school-record 19 hits in the game with seven Pirates tallying two hits apiece. DeLuca drove in four runs in the first inning and Haefeli finished the day with a team-high five RBI.
DeStaso did not yield a hit and struck out four in three innings of work, retiring nine of the 10 batters she faced. Casey Moses scattered two hits with a strikeout over the fourth and fifth innings.
Seton Hall wraps up non-conference play with a doubleheader at Stony Brook on Wednesday, May 1. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.
