DOMINICAN SPLITS DOUBLEHEADER WITH MOLLOY COLLEGE

Rockville Centre, N.Y. (4/18/22) The Dominican College softball team split a non-conference doubleheader with host Molloy College in games played today at Bob Klein Field. MC won the opener, 8-5 while the Lady Chargers rallied to win the second game, 8-4.

Photo by Tom Salus
Photo by Tom Salus

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April 18, 2022

Rockville Centre, N.Y. (4/18/22) The Dominican College softball team split a non-conference doubleheader with host Molloy College in games played today at Bob Klein Field. MC won the opener, 8-5 while the Lady Chargers rallied to win the second game, 8-4.

Following the split Dominican now stands at 9-15 overall.

Game One:  Molloy led 1-0 after two innings of play when the Lady Chargers scored two runs in the third as Kristin Miscia (Basking Ridge, N.J.) had an infield RBI single and an error on the play allowed a second run to score.

The Lions regained the lead with a six-run four inning and added a run in the sixth for an 8-2 advantage.  DC added three runs in their final at-bat of the game as Madison Navarette (Calimesa, Calif.) hit an RBI single to centerfield and later Kamryn Raya (Corona, Calif.) delivered a two-run double to right center for the final 8-5 score.

Navarette went 3-4 in the game, while Toni-Jo Lopez (Sylmar, Calif.) had two hits and scored two runs in the loss.

Game Two:  The Lions took a 3-0 lead after two innings of play when the Lady Charger offense came alive.  DC scored a run in the third on a fielder's choice and added two runs in the fourth on back-to-back doubles off the bats of Jenna O'Reilly (Suffern, N.Y.) and Miscia to tie the game, 3-3.

The Lady Chargers took the lead in the fifth stanza as Rebecca Haggerty (Grafton, Mass.) led off the inning with a home run over the left field fence and later a run scored on a fielder's choice to claim a 5-3 advantage.

Two more runs came home in the sixth on Haggerty's infield single to push DC ahead 7-4 and Emma Kaszovitz (Hicksville, N.Y.) produced a run-scoring single to right field in the seventh for the final 8-4 win.

Miscia finished the game with three hits, while O'Reilly, Haggerty and Madison Walker (Southampton, N.J.) had two hits each.

Starter Journey Limardo (Anaheim, Calif.) got the win in four innings of work, while Paige Sasser (Brentwood, Calif.) earned her first save.

Up next for the Lady Chargers is a road Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) doubleheader at Chestnut Hill College.

 

 

 

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.