Saturday, April 30
Pittsburgh, Pa.
11 a.m.
Syracuse University
7
at
10
at Pittsburgh
Tiffany Robinson singled in each game to run her school-record hitting streak to 15 games.
Softball Loses At Pittsburgh
4/30/2005 5:08:56 PM | Softball
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Syracuse softball team suffered its first BIG EAST sweep of the season, losing both games of a doubleheader at Pittsburgh, 10-7 and 1-0 in eight innings. The Orange is now 27-18 overall and 11-5 in the league, while the Panthers are now 20-24 overall and 6-6 in conference play.
Game 2 Box Score
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Syracuse softball team suffered its first BIG EAST sweep of the season, losing both games of a doubleheader at Pittsburgh, 10-7 and 1-0 in eight innings. The Orange is now 27-18 overall and 11-5 in the league, while the Panthers are now 20-24 overall and 6-6 in conference play.
Tiffany Robinson singled in each game to run her school-record hitting streak to 15 games. Alexis Switenko accounted for three hits and reached base four times. Chanel Roehner had a hit in each game, including a two-run homer in game one.
Courtney Mosch had two hits, including her seventh home run of the season. Erin Gray extended her hitting streak to eight games with two singles and two RBI. Cassie Morales recorded her team-best 13th double.
Erin Downey (16-8) suffered the loss in game one. She allowed eight runs, seven of which were earned, on six hits. She struck out six and walked three in three and one-third innings. Christa Hunter (10-11) was the winner, striking out one and walking one in four and two-thirds innings. Laura Belardinelli picked up her first save of the season retiring all three batters she faced in the seventh.
Mosch (10-10) was the losing pitcher in game two despite allowing only one run on six hits. She struck out three and walked five. Belardinelli (8-9) threw her first shutout, scattering five hits. She struck out two and walked one.
Syracuse scored first with two runs in the second inning of game one. Gray drove in Switenko and Mosch, who had reached on a walk and a single, with a base hit back up the middle.
The Panthers took the lead in the bottom of the third. Joey Scarf drove in the first two runs with a two-out single to right field, and Jessica Dignon put Pitt on top 3-2 with an RBI single to left. Lisa McGregor made it 5-2 with a two-run double to the gap in right center. Pitt extended its lead in the fourth when Hunter helped herself with a three-run home run to left field to make the score 8-2.
The Orange came back with four runs in the fifth. Roehner’s home run cut the deficit to 8-4. Switenko re-started the rally with a single and Mosch made it 8-6 with a line drive over the right field fence.
Pitt responded with two runs in the fifth to make it 10-6. Morgan Howard earned the first RBI on a fielder’s choice ground ball. Casey Pickard drove in another run with another infield ground ball.
Syracuse scored in the seventh to make it 10-7. The Orange had the tying run at the plate with nobody out, but three ground balls ended the rally.
Game two was scoreless through seven innings. Pitt nearly tallied the game’s first run in the top of the sixth, but SU threw a runner out at the plate on a play that went from right field to third base to second base to home.
Pickard ended the game in the bottom of the eighth with an RBI single to right field to drive in the game’s only run.
SU is now 0-4 all-time at Pitt’s Trees Field. The Orange also lost both ends of a doubleheader in 2003. Syracuse’s seven runs on the day increased the team’s season total to a school record 197 (194, 2004).
Syracuse concludes its regular season on Sunday, May 1 with a doubleheader at Notre Dame.
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