Game 1: Farmingdale State 2, St. Joseph's-Brooklyn 0
Game 2: Farmingdale State 9, St. Joseph's-Brooklyn 0 (6 inn.)
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. | Behind 13 combined innings of shutout pitching from senior
Allie Stanya (Babylon, N.Y.) and junior
Ava Shorr (No. Babylon, N.Y.), the Farmingdale State College softball team extended its winning streak to 16 games on Saturday with a doubleheader sweep over visiting St. Joseph's University-Brooklyn. The Rams (25-7, 12-0 Skyline Conference) won the opening contest by a 2-0 score behind a four-hitter from Stanya, before following up with a 9-0, six-inning victory to back Shorr's three-hitter in the nightcap.
Game 1
Stanya (11 K) struck out double-digit batters for the third time in her last four outings, and received all the run support she would need in the Rams' two-run fourth inning. Senior right fielder
Jenna Giliberti (Bellmore, N.Y.) led off the frame with her sixth triple of the season to right-center field, and slid across home plate one batter later on a squeeze bunt by freshman third baseman
Bailey Hammock (Pt. Jervis, N.Y.). Hammock then stole second base, moved to third on a ground out, and crossed the dish when classmate
Anna Rahner (Islip, N.Y.) placed a two-out bunt single down the third-base line.
With one out in the top of the seventh inning, St. Joseph's-Brooklyn loaded the bases on a pair of infield singles and one walk. From there, Stanya pitched out of the jam by striking out the next Bears hitter, and inducing a ground out back to the pitcher's circle, to move her record to a career-best 14-2 mark.
Sophomore designated player
Samantha Stolfi (Pt. Jefferson Station, N.Y.), freshman left fielder
Isabella Marchini (Hicksville, N.Y.) and sophomore pinch-hitter
Lindsay Cahill (Shoreham, N.Y.) joined Giliberti and Rahner with one hit apiece for the Rams.
Game 2
Shorr needed just 75 pitches (56 strikes) to move to 10-5 on the season, as she faced just three St. Joseph's-Brooklyn (17-11, 9-5) batters over the minimum while fanning two. After Capuano scored Giliberti with a RBI ground out three batters into the first inning, Shorr helped herself at the plate later in the inning with a RBI double down the left-field line to plate Stolfi with the hosts' second run.
Two more runs went Farmingdale State's way in the fourth inning, with Shorr's squeeze bunt scoring Hammock before a steal of home by Capuano pushed the lead to 4-0.
The Rams closed things out with a five-run rally with two outs in the sixth inning. Giliberti's single through the left side started the scoring by scoring freshman center fielder
Ashley Toro (Islip, N.Y.), before Hammock's single to right drove in freshman first baseman
Madison Sturtz (E. Islip, N.Y.) and Giliberti to extend the lead to 7-0. Two batters later, Stolfi's two-run single through the left side provided the walk-off hit.
Giliberti ended the contest with a 3-for-4 effort at the plate and two runs scored, while Capuano (2 R) and Stolfi (2 RBI) each went 2-for-4. Hammock (2 R) and Shorr drove in two runs apiece in the victorious effort.
Head coach
Liz Pennino's side is back in Skyline Conference action Sunday at noon, when they travel to Purchase, N.Y., for a noon doubleheader at Manhattanville University.
