Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University softball team played host to Franklin Pierce on Saturday, April 14 on Janet L. Ficke Field in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader. The Panthers held the Ravens to just six hits in two games, picking up wins of 6-0 and 7-0. With the sweep Adelphi  improves to 26-15-1 overall and 16-6 in the NE-10, while Franklin Pierce falls to 9-22 overall and 7-15 in conference play.

Game One

The Panthers started fast in game one, scoring five runs in the first three innings of action. Emily Dorko led off the bottom of the first with a bunt single, and was driven in later in the inning by Amanda Krier's sacrifice fly. Adelphi's second run was driven in by Jeanine Leo, who used a squeeze bunt to bring home Kayla Rieger from third, giving the Panthers a 2-0 lead.

The Brown and Gold put three runs on the board in the third inning, scoring the first on a Katie Andrews single to left field that plated Victoria Wink, while a Jaclyn Binstock drive to center drove in two runs, scoring Elizabeth Lindner and Amy Ogden, 5-0 Adelphi. The Panthers put one more run on the scoreboard in the sixth when Wink singled to center, allowing Heather Salerno to cross home plate, 6-0.

That was all that was needed and more, as Devon Kelly picked up her 11th win of the season with a complete game, three hit shut out. She also struck out three and walked three in the win.

Leo, Rieger, Andrews, Wink and Meghan Heiser picked up two wins each, Binstock was 1-3 with two RBI.

Game Two

The second game went a lot like the first, as Adelphi scored six runs in the first four innings of play.  Krier got things started in the bottom of the first with a triple to right center that scored Dorko, while Andrews drove in Krier with a single down the right field line, 2-0 Panthers. 

Wink added a third run to Adelphi's total in the second inning, when her single scored Leo, 3-0. After a scoreless inning in the third, the Panthers put three runs on the board in the fourth, starting with a Wink bunt that brought home Salerno. A Krier single to left field scored the second run of the inning as Dorko scored from third and Wink would account for the third and final run of the inning when she stole home, 6-0.

Krier would give Adelphi a seventh run for good measure in the sixth with a double to right center, plating Dorko for the third time in the game, 7-0 Adelphi.

Laurin Watts was stellar in the win, giving up just three hits in seven innings of work and striking out seven, while walking just three for her eighth win of the season.

Binstock was 3-3 in the win, while Krier was 3-4 with three RBI and one run scored. Wink and Dorko also had multi-hit games, going 2-3, Wink with two RBI and a run and Dorko with three runs. 

Adelphi returns to action on Sunday, April 15 when they play host to St. Michael's College at noon on Janet L. Ficke Field in a Northeast-10 dust-up.