EASTON, Mass. - Saint Michael's College softball sophomore Jenna Hoops (Woodbury, Minn./Visitation School) blasted a pair of game-two home runs as the Purple Knights lost twice to Stonehill College, 3-2 and 7-5, on Sunday during Northeast-10 Conference play at Fr. Gartland Field.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (6-13, 2-4 NE10), Stonehill (8-14, 4-6 NE10)

GAME FACTS

• Hoops became the 12th Purple Knight to knock a pair of home runs in the same game, and the second this year, after sophomore Marli Welter (Madison, N.J./Madison) drilled two on March 13. Saint Michael's last had two players with multi-home-run games in the same season in 1978, when Mary Horan '78 (May 1) and Dawn Stanger '81 (May 5) turned the feat four days apart.
• Hoops became the eighth different Purple and Gold player to homer this season.
• Saint Michael's has an NE10-best 20 home runs, within three of the 2007 school record.
• Seven of the teams' past nine meetings have now been decided by two runs or fewer.
• Five of the Purple Knights' last six games have been one-run affairs, with six of their losses coming by a single run.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Hope Hiscock (Schenectady, N.Y./Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School), 2-for-4, 1 R
• Sophomore Angelica Johns (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook), 1-for-3, 1 HP
• First-year Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany), 1-for-3
• First-year Riley Sroczinski (Raynham, Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham Regional), 1-for-3
• Senior Courtney Norton (Georgetown, Mass./Bishop Fenwick), 0-for-1, 1 R, 1 BB
• Junior Jackie Cherry (Franklin, Mass./Franklin), 6 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Chloe Kelly, 3-for-4, 3 RBI, 1 2B
• Sophomore Alexandra Hammond, 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 SB
• First-year Alyssa Grossi, 0-for-1, 1 R, 2 BB, 2 SB
• First-year Skylar Brandemarte, 7 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K

THE ACTION

• Stonehill left runners at the corners in the first inning when Cherry snared a liner to end the frame.
• Kelly gave the Skyhawks the lead for good with a two-out, two-run double in the second.
• Sroczinski and Hiscock both singled in the third before Johns was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out, but Brandemarte wriggled out of danger with a popup and groundout.
• Kelly again came up with a two-out RBI hit in the fourth, this time a single.
• Norton walked with one out in the fifth before Hiscock singled, and an outfield error allowed Norton to come around and score, with Hiscock reaching third. An ensuing error plated Hiscock, and Saint Michael's trailed 3-2. Devens singled with one out, but the final eight Purple Knight batters were retired.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Hoops, 3-for-3, 2 R, 4 RBI, 2 HR
• Welter, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 2B
• Devens, 1-for-3, 1 BB
• Hiscock, 1-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 3B
• First-year Kelleigh Simpson (West Burke, Vt./Lyndon Institute), 4+ IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, loss
• Cherry, 2 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 3 K in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• First-year Emily Nardelli, 2-for-4, 2 R, 3 RBI, 1 HR
• First-year Paige Wodarski, 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B
• Junior Alexa Adinolfi, 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI
• Junior Kelly Mayette, 5.2 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 4 K, win
• Brandemarte, 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, save

THE ACTION

• After the Purple Knights left the bases loaded in the first inning, Hoops hit her first home run with one down and none on in the second, cracking a 3-0 pitch over the fence in right center.
• Nardelli tied the game with a two-out solo homer of her own in the third.
• Stonehill scored six runs on six hits in the fifth, as 11 batters came to the plate. Nardelli's two-run single broke the deadlock, and first-year May Dawes added a two-run double later in the frame.
• Hoops blasted her second home to straightaway center field with two out in the sixth, a three-run drive. Hiscock added an RBI triple, and Saint Michael's trailed just 7-5.
• However, Brandemarte came out of the bullpen with Hiscock at third and set down the game's final four batters.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday at Saint Anselm College, 3 p.m. doubleheader.
• The Hawks won the last two NE10 Championships while advancing to the 2021 NCAA World Series, their third consecutive deep NCAA run.