VIERA WEST, Fla. - The Saint Michael's College softball team lost a pair of contests on Tuesday during the Space Coast Spring Games at the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) Space Coast Complex. The Purple Knights fell to Mercy University, 8-1, and Ohio Dominican University, 8-0 in five innings.
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GAME 1
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (1-6), Mercy (2-5)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Senior Brooke Edgerly (Morley, Mich./Morley Stanwood), 1-for-3, R
- First-year Madi Liimatainen (Turners Falls, Mass./Turners Falls), 1-for-2, RBI, 2B, SF
- Senior CJ Davidson (Canyon Lake, Calif./Vista Murrieta), 3.2 IP, 9 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 3 BB, 0 K, loss
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Junior Allison Murphy, 1-for-4, R, 2 RBI, 2B
- Junior Dylan Reyer, 1-for-1, 2 R, 2 BB, 2 SB
- Sophomore Mikaela Mammola, 2-for-3, R, RBI
- First-year Emma Jackson, 1-for-2, 2 R, 2 BB
- Sophomore Lauren McSweeney, 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K
THE ACTION
- First-year Makayla Rady knocked an RBI single in the bottom of the second before scoring a second run after Mammola singled and got caught in an inning-ending rundown.
- Jackson scored on an error in the third, but the Purple Knights got the run back courtesy of Liimatainen's sac fly in the fourth to make it 3-1.
- The Mavericks put the game away with five runs on six hits in the home half, keyed by Murphy's two-run double.
GAME 2
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (1-7), Ohio Dominican (8-12)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- First-year Shaylee Branon (Troy, N.H./Monadnock Regional), 1-for-2
- First-year Ciara Flaherty (Newington, Conn./East Catholic), 1-for-1
- First-year Alexis Wilson (Barnstead, N.H./Prospect Mountain), 4.1 IP, 11 H, 8 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Sophomore Avery Mueller, 2-for-3, R, 2 RBI, 2B
- Sophomore Halina Schulte, 2-for-2, R, 2 RBI, 2 2B
- First-year Reese Loveday, 2-for-3, R, 2 RBI, 3B
- Sophomore Emma Grau, 5 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 K
THE ACTION
- Loveday's RBI triple gave the Panthers a first-inning lead, and Schulte's two-out, two-run double pushed the lead to 3-0 in the home half of the second, scoring a pair of unearned runs.
- In between, Flaherty singled and sophomore Emma Nordahl (Holden, Mass./Saint Paul Diocesan Junior-Senior) reached on a fielder's choice to give Saint Michael's two on with one out in the second, but Grau retired the final two hitters.
- Wilson set down six of eight batters between the second and fourth innings before Ohio Dominican clinched the win with five runs on five hits in the fifth. Mueller hit a key two-run double before senior Saadie Maysonet came up with the walk-off RBI single.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Thursday against Molloy University (9 a.m.) and Post University (1:30 p.m.) in Viera West, Fla., during the Space Coast Spring Games.
