COLCHESTER, Vt. - Junior Jenna Devens (Parsippany, N.J./Parsippany) broke Saint Michael's College softball records for career home runs and RBI in helping the Purple Knights stay in the postseason hunt with a sweep of the University of New Haven, 5-3 and 7-1, in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader Friday at Doc Jacobs Field.
 
With two regular-season games remaining, Saint Michael's is tied for the eighth and final NE10 Championship position with The College of Saint Rose while standing two games clear of Southern Connecticut State University, the Purple and Gold's opponent for a twinbill on Saturday.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (12-22, 8-12 NE10), New Haven (7-33, 3-17 NE10)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Devens socked her 21st career home run in game two, breaking a tie with Noelle Gill '05 for the 19-year-old program record. Earlier in the contest, Devens drove in a pair on a double, tying and breaking Megan O'Connor's '09 15-year-old RBI school standard (78). Devens ended the day with 80 RBI, and her 29th career double put her two short of another O'Connor mark.
• With 43 hits this season, senior Angelica Johns (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook) is tied for seventh in program history.
• Senior Meghan Connor (Saint Albans, Vt./BFA-Saint Albans/Endicott) moved into eighth in program history with 56 career RBI in just three seasons.
• Junior third baseman Kaylee Morey (Stonington, Maine/Deer Isle-Stonington) became the third Purple Knight with 100 assists in a season and is four short of Bethany Falls' '14 13-year-old school standard (104).
• The Saint Michael's swept the doubleheader after entering the day with two victories in the first 16 series meetings. The Purple Knights are 4-1 in their last five with New Haven.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Connor, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI
• Johns, 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 1 3B, 1 HR
• Junior Riley Sroczinski (Raynham, Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham Regional), 2-for-3, 1 R
• Sophomore CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 1-for-3, 1 2B
• Sophomore Brooke Edgerly (Morley, Mich./Morley Stanwood), 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SB
• Devens, 7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 K

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Halle Frederick, 2-for-3
• Sophomore Bella Chenet, 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 2B
• Sophomore Kylie Thorpe, 1-for-3, 2 RBI
• First-year Breanna Kinney, 4 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, loss

THE ACTION

• Connor drove in Edgerly with an RBI single in the first inning before coming home on a two-out error.
• Edgerly's single back up the box drove home Sroczinski to make it 3-0 in the second.
• Johns led off the fourth inning with a home run.
• New Haven plated three runs on three hits and an error in the sixth inning, with Thorpe's two-out, two-run single bringing the Chargers within 4-3.
• Johns tripled and scored on an ensuing error to push the lead back to two in the home half.
• Devens set New Haven down in order in the seventh to secure the victory.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Connor, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SF
• Davidson, 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 2 2B; 7 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K
• Devens, 2-for-3, 2 R, 3 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR
• Edgerly, 3-for-3, 1 R, 1 SAC
• Morey, 2-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Senior Marli Welter (Madison, N.J./Madison), 0-for-1, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 HP, 1 SB

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Frederick, 2-for-3, 1 R
• Senior Bella Lagattolla, 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B
• First-year Viana McKinley, 2 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 5 R, 0 BB, 0 K, loss

THE ACTION

• Saint Michael's again struck early, with three runs on five hits in the opening stanza. Devens' two-run double to straightaway center field started the scoring, and she later came home on Morey's two-out single.
• Davidson hit an RBI double the following frame before being plated on Connor's sac fly, making it 5-0.
• Welter swiped home on a rundown play in the fourth, and Devens hit her record dinger leading off the fifth.
• Lagattolla spoiled Davidson's shutout bid with a two-out RBI double in the seventh.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Southern Connecticut State, 12 p.m. doubleheader.
• The Purple Knights will play their Senior Day games that day.