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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The D'Youville softball team was able to salvage a win out of the weekend road trip, taking the first game of Sunday's East Coast Conference doubleheader at Staten Island, 5-1, before falling in game two, 7-5. The Saints move to 16-10 overall on the season and 5-7 in league play after Sunday's twin bill.
Senior Maddy Pepke got the Saints on the board first in the top of the third inning, reaching a fielder's choice as junior Jamie Bower advanced home.
Senior Mikaela Milleville added one more in the fourth, advancing home when Bower stole second base.
Ahead 2-1 going into the top of the seventh inning, the Saints added three insurance runs on RBI singles from junior Hannah Bardeen and sophomoreLauren Booth to create a 5-1 gap.
Booth (6-3) got the win in the D'Youville circle in game one. Booth shut down the Dolphin offense in her six innings, striking out two while only allowing one earned run on three hits. Freshman Sarah Parzych tossed the seventh inning in relief for the Saints.
Freshman Gianna Adamo (2-for-4) and Bower (2-for-3) each had multi-hit games for the Saints in game one.
The Saints got off to an early lead in the rematch, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning. Milleville doubled to left-center to put the Saints on the board. Bardeen followed up with a groundout to short that drove Pepke in. Bower rounded out the scoring in the first with an RBI single back up the middle.
The Dolphins flipped the script with a six-run second inning that turned D'Youville's three-run lead into a three-run deficit. CSI added one more in the fourth before Adamo got a run back for the Saints in the fifth on a single to center that drove in freshman Emily Przybysz.
D'Youville trimmed the game to two runs in the top of the seventh when Bower grounded into a double play but Milleville advanced home on the play.
Adamo (2-for-3, RBI), Przybysz (2-for-3), and Bower (2-for-4, RBI) each hit safely multiple times for the Saints in game two.
The Saints are back on the road next weekend for an ECC doubleheader at Mercy on Friday, April 15. Game times are scheduled for 1 and 3 p.m.
