April 29, 2008
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Staten Island, NY - Freshman outfielder Hailey Corthell (Reno, NV/Reno) drove in seven runs, senior shortstop Katie Stevens (Reno, NV/Wooster) had five hits and junior infielder Andrea Lazzari (Reno, NV/Wooster) set a new Wagner single-season hit record on an afternoon where the Seahawks split with the visiting Fordham Rams -- winning 13-5 in five innings in the first game and losing 12-4 in the second.
For the first time since 2002 Wagner took a game from the Atlantic-10 member Rams in an offensive showcase in the first game where the Green & White would flex their muscles at the plate for 13 runs on 12 hits before the game was called in the bottom of the fifth inning after a three-run blast off the bat of Hailey Corthell put the eight-run mercy rule into effect.
Aside from her third homerun of the season which bounced over the top of the fence in centerfield for a walk-off round-tripper of sorts, the rookie out of Reno doubled in a run during Wagner's three-run fourth and doubled in two more two innings prior during a seven-run second.
However, as far as Seahawk players with Reno roots go, she - amazingly - wasn't even the big story.
Andrea Lazzari, who continues her onslaught of Wagner single-season records can now add the hits mark to the RBI one she already owns, as she hit her 61st of the year in that second inning putting a screamer over the head of the centerfielder which brought Corthell across the plate.
Her former high school teammate and current partner on the infield, shortstop Katie Stevens, also caused a stir with her bat going five-for-seven at the plate and hitting for "the cycle" on the afternoon with a single, double, and triple in the first game of the double-dip and a homerun in the second one.
She now leads the team with a red-hot .426 batting average on the year.
Sophomore Kate Eshelman (Reno, NV/McQueen), who came in to relieve Seahawk starting pitcher Danielle Wagoner (So., Temecula, CA/Temecula Valley) in the top of the third in the first game with a three-run lead finished out the game and got credit for the win.
In the second game however, despite getting the start to pitch, Eshelman couldn't seem to baffle the Ram lineup the same way and came out of the contest in the top of the seventh inning with no one out after giving up four earned runs on 10 hits with a strikeout and a walk.
She was ultimately pegged with the loss after the 12-4 final.
She's now 9-7 on the year.
The Seahawks now get prepared for their final tune-up before the Northeast Conference tournament this Saturday when they'll welcome the Manhattan Jaspers once again to Grymes Hill for a nonconference doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.
