HOOKSETT, N.H. - After playing its most recent 12 games at home, the Saint Michael's College softball team was swept in Northeast-10 Conference play by Southern New Hampshire University, 9-2 and 3-1, on Wednesday afternoon at the SNHU Softball Field.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (10-22, 3-13 NE10), Southern New Hampshire (14-18, 7-9 NE10)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Sophomore Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) pushed her season RBI total to 20, tying for eighth in program history while joining Noelle Gill '05 and Ashley Harkins '09 as the lone Purple Knights with two 20-RBI campaigns, after driving in 30 last year. Devens also became the ninth player in program history to reach the 50-RBI plateau for a career, and the first to hit the milestone as a sophomore.
• Eleven of the Purple and Gold's losses have been by two runs or fewer.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Devens, 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 1 SF; 4 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, loss
• Senior Sadie Pratt (Dighton, Mass./Dighton-Rehoboth Regional), 2-for-4, 1 R
• Senior Haley Waghorn (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), 2-for-3

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Bryn Garczynski, 4-for-5, 1 R, 2 RBI
• Junior Bella Dickinson, 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 3 BB
• Sophomore Gwyn Hammond, 7 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 K

THE ACTION

• Dickinson scored on a first-inning error before Garczynski's two-out RBI single made it 2-0 in the second.
• The Purple Knights plated a pair of runs the following frame, as Pratt scored on an error before junior Angelica Johns (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook) came home on Devens' game-tying sac fly.
• During a two-run home half, junior Ari Ferrier knocked a go-ahead sac fly before the Penmen's fourth and fifth runs both scored on fielder's choices.
• The hosts pulled away with four runs on three hits in the sixth.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Devens, 1-for-3, 1 RBI
• Johns, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 2B
• First-year Jamie Hearn (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Country Day School), 6 IP, 8 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Dickinson, 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Ferrier, 1-for-2, 2 RBI, 1 BB
• Senior Abi Gray, 1-for-1, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SAC
• Junior Alyssa DiMauro, 2-for-3
• Sophomore Hannah DeRock, 6+ IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K, win
• Junior Leine McKechnie, 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 K, save

THE ACTION

• Ferrier staked Southern New Hampshire to a 1-0 lead with a one-out RBI single in the first frame.
• The hosts scored twice with two down in the fourth, on Dickinson's RBI knock and Ferrier's bases-loaded walk.
• After putting only one runner on base over the opening six frames, the Purple Knights brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the final inning. Johns led off with a double and came home on Devens' single and, two outs later, senior Hope Hiscock (Schenectady N.Y./Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School) singled to put the tying run on base. However, McKechnie induced a game-ending fly out off the bat of the final hitter.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at The College of Saint Rose, 2 p.m. doubleheader.