CHESTER, Pa. (Apr. 28, 2015) – The Widener softball team closed out the 2015 regular season with a twinbill split with Cabrini on Tuesday afternoon at the Widener Softball Field. The Pride (23-7) won the opener 9-3, while the Cavaliers (25-9) took a 7-1 victory in the nightcap.
A four-run first inning of Game One proved to be enough run support for sophomore hurler
Alexis Schengrund (Hillsborough, N.J.) who surrendered just three runs on three hits and three walks while fanning nine in the complete-game effort en route to a 12-2 record in the circle. A suicide squeeze by senior first baseman
Carissa Harris (Douglassville, Pa.) plated sophomore
Ally Horvath (Chalfont, Pa.) for the game's first run. An RBI single by junior catcher
Taylor Church (Glen Mills, Pa.) and a two-RBI base knock by sophomore third baseman
Angela Hood (Mullica Twp., N.J.) accounted for the other three runs in the frame. Freshman second baseman
Lauren DelRomano (Broomall, Pa.) extended the Widener lead to 5-0 with her first career blast over the left-center field fence.
A three-run homer by Lindsay Savar cut the advantage to 5-3, but the Pride added four more runs over the fifth and sixth innings to put the contest away at 9-3.
Freshman center fielder
Katie Sterling (Middletown, Del.) ended the matinee 3-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI.
Game Two saw two big innings for the Cavaliers that the blue and gold were unable to come back from. A three-run roundtripper by pitcher Jess Giordano gave the visitors an early lead, and a sixth with three hits and a Pride miscue extended the advantage to 7-0. The Pride finally pushed across a run in the bottom of the seventh when DelRomano singled home sophomore left fielder
Liz Antonucci (Nesconset, N.Y.) who had doubled in the previous at bat.
Giordano earned the win in the circle, tossing five scoreless innings.
Harris was the lone member of the Pride to register a multi-hit game, going 2-for-3.
Widener will be back in action on Friday, May 1 for the Commonwealth Conference Championships hosted by Lebanon Valley. The second-seeded Pride are set to face-off against third-seeded Stevenson for a noon match-up in Annville, Pa.
