Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University softball team played host to Bentley University on Saturday, March 31 in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader on Janet L. Ficke Field. The Panthers held the Falcons to just two runs in each game and scored six in game one and four in game two, picking up two wins and improving to 16-9-1 overall and 7-3 in the NE-10, while Bentley falls to 3-15 and 1-9 in conference play.

Game One

Adelphi got a complete game, four strikeout, one earned run performance from Devon Kelly, who threw seven innings, picking up her seventh win of the season. The Falcons scored their only two runs of the game in the first, taking advantage of an Adelphi error and getting a single up the middle, 2-0.

The Panthers were held scoreless for just the first inning, as Victoria Wink led off the bottom of the third with a double and scored two batters later on a Jeanine Leo sacrifice fly to left field, halving the Falcon lead, 2-1. The Brown and Gold added two more runs in the bottom of the third on a Katie Andrews drive to center that left her standing on second and scored Kayla Rieger and Jaclyn Binstock, who both reached on errors, 3-2.

Rieger gave Adelphi a fourth run in the bottom of the fourth when she tripled to left, plating Heather Salerno, who  had reached on a single earlier in the frame, 4-2 Adelphi. The Panthers scored their final two runs of the game in the bottom of the fifth on another Andrews double, scoring Binstock for the second time and bringing Amanda Krier around as well, 6-2 Adelphi.

From there it was all Kelly, as she put down the Falcons in order in the top of the sixth and left two Bentley runners stranded in the top of the seventh to secure the win.

Andrews wielded the hot stick for Adelphi, driving in four runs and going 2-3 at the plate, while Binstock was 1-3 with two runs. Emily Dorko, Krier, Wink, Salerno and Rieger all added one hit each in the win.

Game Two

Adelphi got another dominating performance from their pitching staff in game two, as Laurin Watts took the hill and produced 11 strikeouts in the 4-2 victory. Watts gave up just five hits, allowing two runs and walking just two in seven innings, collecting her fifth win of the season.

The game was scoreless through three and a half innings, but the Panthers blew it wide open in the bottom of the fourth, scoring three runs on four hits, taking a 3-0 lead. Elizabeth Lindner started things off with a single past the shortstop, scoring Amy Ogden, 1-0. Then Leo smacked a triple to right field, plating Salerno and then Rieger stroked a single to right field, scoring Leo and accounting for the Panthers, 3-0 edge.

Bentley battled back in the top of the fifth with two runs on double to left center that was responsible for cutting the Adelphi lead to just one run, 3-2. The Panthers tacked on an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth, when Leo drove the ball off the wall in left center, bringing Salerno all the way around from first, 4-2.  Watts then set down the final two Falcon batters with strike outs to preserve the Panther win.

Leo caught fire at the plate in game two, going 2-3 with two RBI and a run scored, while Krier, Wink, Lindner and Salerno were all 1-2.

Adelphi returns to action at noon on Sunday, April 1 when they play host to Stonehill College on Janet L. Ficke Field.