COLCHESTER, Vt. - Junior Riley Sroczinski's (Raynham, Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham Regional) opposite-field walk-off single with two down in the bottom of the 10th inning helped the Saint Michael's College softball team salvage a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader split with The College of Saint Rose on Monday at Doc Jacobs Field. The Purple and Gold lost the opener, 4-1, before taking the nightcap, 7-6. That was the Purple Knights' longest home win since a 3-2, 11-inning triumph over Bentley University on May 1, 2006.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (8-16, 4-6 NE10), Saint Rose (16-12, 7-7 NE10)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• The Purple Knights improved to 4-1 in their last five games.
• Saint Michael's won on a walk-off run for the second straight day, as junior Kaylee Morey (Stonington, Maine/Deer Isle-Stonington) knocked a winning sac fly in the bottom of the seventh inning of game two on Sunday against American International College.
• Junior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) picked up her 77th career RBI, within one of Meghan O'Connor's '09 program mark (78). She added her 28th double to tie Torie Rathwell '20 for second in school annals.
• Senior Angelica Johns (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook) vaulted into sixth in program history in career hits (118) and a tie for eighth in runs (52).

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Devens, 2-for-4, 1 2B
• Sroczinski, 1-for-3, 1 2B
• Sophomore CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 BB
• First-year Brynlyn Owens (Limon, Colo./Limon), 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HP
• Junior Kelleigh Simpson (West Burke, Vt./Lyndon Institute), 7 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 1 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Madison Chandler, 2-for-3
• Junior Ellen Fuda, 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 2B
• Sophomore Maddy Bland, 1-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 3B
• First-year Kelsey Higgins, 1-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HR
• Graduate student Adian Sheeren, 7 IP, 8 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K

THE ACTION

• Higgins drilled a solo home run with two down in the first inning.
• Owens' RBI single down the left-field line with two out in the home half knotted the score.
• Saint Rose scored three times with two out in the third, as Bland tripled in a pair before scoring on an ensuing error.
• The hosts loaded the bases with no one out in the bottom half but went scoreless for their most sustained threat during the remainder of the contest.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Davidson, 1-for-4, 2 R, 1 SAC; 10 IP, 12 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 5 K
• Devens, 1-for-4, 1 RBI, 1 BB
• Johns, 2-for-5, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 3B
• Morey, 1-for-5, 1 RBI
• Sroczinski, 1-for-4, 2 RBI, 1 SF
• Senior Meghan Connor (Saint Albans, Vt./BFA-Saint Albans/Endicott), 2-for-5, 1 R, 1 RBI
• Senior Marli Welter (Madison, N.J./Madison), 1-for-5, 1 SB
• Sophomore Brooke Edgerly (Morley, Mich./Morley Stanwood), 1-for-4, 1 R

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Fuda, 4-for-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Higgins, 2-for-5, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Graduate student Ciana Phillips, 1-for-4, 2 R
• First-year Marin Frazee, 2-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Junior Madi Puppolo, 9.2 IP, 10 H, 7 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 5 K

THE ACTION

• Bland and Devens picked up RBI as the teams exchanged first-inning runs, with Devens singling home Davidson with two down.
• Much like game one, the Golden Knights scored three runs in the third inning, with four batters in a five-hitter stretch picking up hits to account for the runs.
• Sroczinski's fourth-inning sac fly cut the deficit to 4-2, and Johns tripled home Edgerly in the fifth before scoring the tying run on an ensuing error.
• With the international tiebreaker in effect in the 10th inning, Chandler came through with a go-ahead sacrifice fly before senior Alexandra Deeter's two-out RBI single padded the lead to 6-4.
• In the home half, Connor came through with an RBI knock before Morey added the tying RBI single with one out, scoring Johns. With two down and runners on first and second, Sroczinski sent a sinking liner into right field to plate Connor with the winning run.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday vs. Southern New Hampshire University, 2:30 p.m. doubleheader.