Rindge, N.H. - With both teams chasing an NE10 regular-season title entering play, the No. 17 Adelphi University softball team took both games Sunday against Franklin Pierce University at Bisaccia Field.
Red-shirt sophomore outfielder
Courtney Wengryn continued her torrid weekend with the bat, going a combined 4-for-7 with two key RBIs and two runs scored.
The sweep currently slingshots the Panthers (31-6, 13-3 NE10) over Bentley (14-3-1 NE10) for first place in the conference standings.
Game 1: #17 Adelphi 2, Franklin Pierce 1
In what was the team's third-consecutive 2-1 game, Wengryn drove the deciding go-ahead RBI single in the third.
During the present road trip, Wengryn is swinging the bat at a stunning .538 clip (7-for-13) with a team-best-tying three RBIs. Wengryn finished the week -- consisting of eight games -- at an even .500 with two doubles and seven RBIs to raise her season average back above .400.
Wengryn singled in each of her first two at-bats in the opener -- the latter of which scored
Zee Zee Shreter as the eventual game-winning run.
Besides letting up a lead-off second-inning homer,
Lindsey Hibbs only faced further trouble in the fifth, when she preserved the one-run lead with a key strikeout of Franklin Pierce's Ari Rodriguez with the tying run on third.
Hibbs turned away nine Ravens via strikeout on the day and allowed only the one run in a complete-game effort.
Game 2: #17 Adelphi 6, Franklin Pierce 3
Wengryn got it all started again in the nightcap, roping an RBI single in the team's opening turn at-bat to get the Panthers on the board.
One batter later,
Alexa Sacripante -- who has found the gap with regularity this season -- got all of her pitch for the junior's second collegiate home run.
In the third, the bottom of the lineup added to the Adelphi lead. A set of infield singles loaded the bases, before
Kendall Winn's sacrifice fly and
Angelina Kellogg's squeeze bunt expanded the 'Cats lead to 5-0.
Claire Fon took the ball for Game 2, and got tagged for two runs in the fourth and another in the sixth, but the Adelphi lead proved too much.
Head Coach
Carla Campagna and the Panthers round out their six-game road trip Tuesday (Apr. 18) in New Haven, Conn. at Southern Connecticut State University at 2:30 p.m.
