Wednesday, April 12
South Florida 2, Stetson 1 – Box Score
South Florida 13, Stetson 1 – Box Score
Duke 11, East Carolina 5 – Box Score
Duke 4, East Carolina 3 – Box Score
Recaps
South Florida 2, Stetson 1 – Box Score
South Florida 13, Stetson 1 – Box Score
TAMPA – The University of South Florida (27-18, 6-3 The American) softball team took both games against the Stetson Hatters (22-20, 6-6 ASUN) behind multi-homerun performances from Marissa Trivelpiece and Vivian Ponn on Wednesday night.
GAME ONE | USF 2, Stetson 1
Stetson took the early lead, scoring one unearned run off a single to center field. The Bulls were held hitless until the third inning when Jordyn Kadlub singled to the shortstop.
In the sixth inning, Kathy Garcia-Soto reached on a fielding error by the Hatters shortstop. Ponn stepped up to the plate and hit her third home run of the season to give USF the 2-1 lead.
Stetson threatened USF's lead in the bottom of the seventh inning with the tying run at second and the winning run on first. Megan Pierro made a diving catch to end the game and seal the win for South Florida.
Gabriella Nori threw her sixth complete game of the year, retiring four Hatters. She only allowed one unearned run on six hits.
GAME TWO | USF 13, STETSON 1
South Florida dominated the second game of the double header behind an eight-run sixth inning highlighted by homeruns from Ponn, Trivelpiece, and Lydia Castro.
Trivelpiece had two home runs in the game, her first was a three-run homerun in the fifth inning to give USF the 5-1 lead.
Hallie Bryant and Pierro scored the Bulls first two runs in the third inning on a single and sacrifice bunt turned error.
Jaden Martinez earned her 13 start of the season. She pitched 2.2 innings and struck out one. Ponn pitched 3.1 innings with one strikeout and one hit.
Duke 11, East Carolina 5 – Box Score
Duke 4, East Carolina 3 – Box Score
DURHAM, N.C. – The East Carolina softball team came up short against No. 11 Duke in a doubleheader on Wednesday, falling 11-5 in the first game and losing 4-3 on a walkoff in the second contest inside Duke Softball Stadium.
The Pirates drop to 23-19 (1-8 The American) on the season with the two loss and Duke improves to 33-8 (10-5 ACC) with the sweep.
Game One | No. 11 Duke 11, East Carolina 5
The Pirates jumped out to a quick lead in the top of the first after Logan Sutton drew a walk to score Jocelyn Alonso with the bases loaded. Malea Rolle would reach on a fielder's choice and Bailee Wilson would score off a Duke error to put ECU ahead 2-0.
Duke would take the lead after tallying one run in the bottom of the first and adding two more in the bottom of the third to go ahead 3-2. ECU would respond in its next at bat after a two RBI single from Wilson put the Pirates back in front 4-3. The Blue Devils would regain the momentum and put the game away with a four-run fifth and sixth inning in route to its 32nd win.
Taylor Edwards went 3-for-4 and tallied a home run to lead the Pirates at the plate and Wilson provided two hits in four at bats.
Payton Hudson (0-2) surrendered three earned runs in 3.1 innings of work for the loss while Sophie Garner-MacKinnon (4-1) only allowed two hits in 3.1 innings for the win.
Game Two | No. 11 Duke 4, East Carolina 3
In similar fashion to the first game, the Pirates would get the first run of the contest after Taudrea Sinnie hit a triple and then scored on a sacrifice fly from Jocelyn Alonso. Duke would even things up in the bottom of the second with back-to-back doubles and would jump ahead 2-1 in the bottom of the third on an RBI single from Gisele Tapia.
After failing to get runners into scoring position for three innings, the Pirates would load the bases without recording a hit and Wilson would draw a walk to score Ragan Holloman and knot the game at 2-2. ECU would be unable to take the lead, leaving three on base after a Sutton flyout to end the inning.
Duke would retake the lead in the bottom of the sixth with a double but with their back to the wall, the Pirates would respond with a sacrifice fly from Wilson to score Sinnie and even the score at 3-3. Duke's Kairi Rodriguez would hit a ball deep to right field that looked to be going over the wall but Anna Sawyer would make a spectacular catch to rob the Blue Devils of a walkoff home run. Duke would hit a single and would score on a unearned run off a Pirate error to clinch the win and sweep the doubleheader.
Sinnie led ECU on offense recording three of the Pirates' five hits in the game.
Jordan Hatch (8-8) gave up seven hits and four runs in 6.2 innings of work for the loss and Cassidy Curd (10-0) tossed eight strikeouts to remain perfect in the circle this season.