Syracuse University
at Connecticut
Orangewomen Swept at Connecticut
4/28/2003 4:51:29 PM | Softball
Game One (UConn 4, SU 1)
Game Two (UConn 11, SU 3)
STORRS, Conn. – The Syracuse softball team lost both ends of a doubleheader at the University of Connecticut on Monday, April 28. The Huskies won the first game, 4-1, and took the nightcap, 11-3 in five innings. SU is now 14-24 overall and 4-12 in the BIG EAST, while UConn is 21-20-1 and 9-5 in the league.
Sophomore Tanya Rose finished the doubleheader with four hits, an RBI and two runs scored. She had both of SU's hits in the first game with a triple and a single. She reached base all four times at the plate (hit by pitch and walk) in the opener.
Junior Rachel Park went 0-for-2 with a walk in the first game of the doubleheader to end her season-best hitting streak at nine games. Park owns the school record for longest hitting streak at 11 games set the final 10 games of last season and the 2003 season opener. Park delivered in game two with a two-run single in the top of the third inning.
Senior Tara DiMaggio was the losing pitcher in game one. DiMaggio (9-13) allowed four runs, three of them earned, in six innings. She struck out seven and walked one. Barb Cook was the winning pitcher for the Huskies, giving up just two hits in seven innings. Junior Haley Larsen took the loss in game two. Larsen (1-6) allowed six runs, four of them earned, in one-plus inning of work. She struck out one and walked one. UConn's Claire Hesson was the winner for the Huskies, allowing four hits and striking out three in four innings.
The Orangewomen scored in their first at-bat of the first game. Rose led off with a triple followed by a walk to Park. A wild pitch allowed the run to score and Park moved all the way to third. The Orangewomen had runners on first and third with one out, but did not push across another run.
UConn tied the game in the bottom of the first inning on a two-out RBI single by Maggie Arbogast. Mandy Schettini drove in a run with an infield single to give the Huskies a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the third inning. Connecticut was aided in the inning by an SU throwing error and an illegal pitch. UConn took control of the game in the bottom of the fourth inning on a two-run home run by Arbogast to take a 4-1 lead.
Arbogast drove in her fourth run of the day with a sacrifice fly in the top of the first inning of game two to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead. UConn went ahead, 6 -0, in the second innning with five runs on four hits and an error.
The Orangewomen put up a three-spot in the top of the third inning. Rose delivered an RBI single and Park drove in two with a single up the middle. Junior Nikki Lincoln started the rally with an infield single. Park's single was her 50th hit of the year, tying her with senior Christina Holowich for third place on the Orangewomen single-season hit list. She needs just four more hits to tie the record set by Rose last season.
The Huskies came back with five runs in the bottom of the inning. Cook delivered her second RBI single of the game and Schettini drew a bases –loaded walk. D'Angelo drove in the third run with a groundout and Arbogast followed with a two-run single.
The Orangewomen begin a four-game season-ending homestand on Friday, May 2 versus Rutgers. The first game of the doubleheader begins at 12 p.m.
