March 30, 2008

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Hamden, CT - The Seahawks parlayed a complete game nine-hit, one earned run pitching performance by sophomore Danielle Wagoner (Temecula, CA/Temecula Valley) and seven hits, including a five-run sixth inning, into a 10-3 victory over the Bobcats of Quinnipiac University (10-20, 0-3 NEC) this afternoon in the first game of an NEC doubleheader at Bobcat Field. The Green and White improve their conference record to 2-1 while their overall record evens up at 10-10.

The Bobcats get on the board first in the bottom of the opening stanza when shortstop Christine Bourdeau doubled to left center driving in their lead-off hitter, second baseman Jill Viglione, after she got on with a base hit to start things off.

In the second, though, the Seahawks would answer right back taking the lead on a patented Ami Iwicki (Sr., Flemington, NJ/Hunterdon Central) double to left field that drove in senior catcher Victoria Batistelli (Huntington Beach, CA/Huntington Beach) and junior designated player Jaclyn Vanore (Palisades Park, NJ/Paramus Catholic) who both reached on walks.

In the following three innings the Seahawks would be blanked by Bobcat starter Kristin Sheriff and the home team would take the lead 3-2 on another RBI double off the bat of Christine Bourdeau in the bottom of the fifth leaving Wagner two more times up at bat to answer.

They would, and they would do it in a huge way the very next inning.

In that turn at bat freshman leftfielder Hailey Corthell (Reno, NV/Reno) would lead-off with a base hit up the middle (her first at bat of the inning, she would appear twice at the plate as the Seahawks would bat around the order) and reach home when a wild pitch got by the Bobcat catcher with senior shortstop Katie Stevens (Reno, NV/Wooster) at the plate. Stevens would walk and come around to score on former high school teammate Andrea Lazzari's (Reno, NV/Wooster) RBI double down the right field line. After Vanore walked sophomore infielder Kate Eshelman (Reno, NV/McQueen) hit a double of her own to centerfield driving in Lazzari for an RBI. The Seahawks kept it going two batters later when, after Vanore scored on a wild pitch and Iwicki walked, senior infielder Margaret Gallia (Las Vegas, NV/Community College HS) pinch-hit for freshman third baseman Jamie El-Aazami (Houston, TX/Cypress Hills) and knocked a single past first base that drove in another run in Kate Eshelman. Corthell ended the inning grounding out to the shortstop but not before Wagner put five on the board while taking a 7-3 lead that they would never give back.

They would push across another three insurance runs in the top of the seventh on two hits and two errors and would make it a 10-3 final in the bottom of the inning when Wagoner would get the Bobcats with the third out with a runner stranded on second base. She moves to 3-2 on the season after being pinned as the winning pitcher with the complete game.

The Seahawks lost the second game of the doubleheader, 5-2. Updates to follow, stay tuned.