Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University softball team played host to Stonehill College on Sunday, April 1 on Janet L. Ficke Field in a Northeast-10 clash. The Panthers Devon Kelly held the Skyhawks scoreless in a game one, 1-0 victory, while Jeanine Leo's late inning heroics secured a, 8-7 game two win. With the sweep Adelphi improves to 18-9-1 overall and 9-3 on NE-10 play, while Stonehill falls to 13-7 overall and 6-6 in conference action.

Game One

Devon Kelly set the Skyhawks down in order in the first inning, including striking out two and kept the door closed the rest of the game, securing a 1-0 win for Adelphi. Kelly threw a full seven innings, collecting her eighth win of the season by striking out four, walking two and giving up just three hits, while shutting out Stonehill.

Emily Dorko led the bottom of the inning off with a bunt single and then promptly stole second, moving to third on an illegal pitch. The second batter of the game, Jaclyn Binstock, popped out to the catcher, getting her just far enough the first base line to allow Dorko to score, what would prove to be the winning run, 1-0.

Both Dorko and Amanda Krier were 2-3 in the first game, accounting for four of Adelphi's six hits. The other two hits came courtesy of Binstock and Katie Andrews, who were 1-2 and 1-3.

Game Two

Game two came down to one swing of the bat and Adelphi came out on top, 8-7. Leo walked to the plate in the bottom of the seventh with two outs, no one on base and the score knotted at seven. She took the Skyhawk offering deep over the fence in right center, hitting a walk off home run and securing a 8-7 win for Adelphi.

Stonehill used a single up the middle and a drive to center in the top of the first to put two runs on the board early and kept the Panthers scoreless in the bottom of the first, 2-0. After a double to lead the off the second, Stonehill got a ground out to short, driving in their third run of the game, 3-0 Skyhawks after one and a half.

The Panthers offense came alive in a big way in the bottom of the second, loading the bases with one out. After a force out at home plate, Dorko slapped a drive right back at the pitcher, up the middle, scoring Leo and Heather Salerno. Then a Binstock double down the right field line brought around Kayla Rieger and Dorko, giving Adelphi a 4-3 lead after two innings.

Over the next inning and a half, the Skyhawks scored three runs, turning a one run deficit into a two run advantage, 6-4. But, another Dorko hit, a single to center, scored Rieger, cutting the Stonehill lead to just one run after four innings of play, 6-5. The Skyhawks pushed the lead back to two runs, 7-5, with another run in the top of the fifth, but the Panthers used two runs in the bottom of the fifth to knot the score at seven. The first run came courtesy of a Victoria Wink sacrifice fly that scored Amy Ogden, while a Rieger worked a bases loaded walk to bring Elizabeth Lindner across home plate.

The sixth inning was a scoreless frame and Katie Andrews set Stonehill down in order in the top of the seventh to set up Leo's heroic's in the bottom of the inning.

Andrews threw four innings of two run relief, striking out one and walking none to run her record to 4-1 on the season. Laurin Watts opened the game and threw three innings, giving up five runs and striking out four.

Dorko and Krier were both 2-4, while Dorko scored one run and drove in three. Leo was also hot at thet plate, going 2-3 with two runs scored and an RBI, including the walk off home run. Rieger was 1-2 with two runs scored and Salerno, Lindner, Wink and Binstock all chipped in one hit each.

Adelphi returns to action on Tuesday, April 3 when they travel to Syracuse, New York to take on Northeast-10 opponent LeMoyne College at 3:00 pm.