Softball's Win Streak Comes to an End with 5-0 Loss to Assumption

Tricia Hansen with one of the Ravens' two hits & pitches in relief

RINDGE, N.H. (April 23, 2014) – The Franklin Pierce University softball team was limited to just a pair of hits Wednesday, as its seven-game win streak was snapped in a 5-0 setback to Assumption at the Melissa Bisaccia Memorial Softball Complex in Rindge, N.H.

The Ravens fell to 11-18 overall, 9-12 in the Northeast-10, and 7-10 in the Northeast Division, while Assumption improved to 16-17, 10-10 in the NE-10, and 9-9 in the division.

Jenn Lattal was dominant in the pitching circle for the Greyhounds, retiring the first eight batters she faced. After she put a pair of runners on with two outs in the third, she got out of the jam and retired 10-straight hitters before Courtney Caputo (Stony Brook, N.Y.) led off the seventh with a base hit.

Lattal improved to 6-5 with three strikeouts, one walk, and just those two hits. Tricia Hansen (Mansfield, Mass.) had the other hit for Franklin Pierce in the third inning.

Assumption scored twice in the third, and tacked on a run in both the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. Kayli Moniz' RBI’double highlighted the third inning, while Andrea Crowley added an RBI double as well in the seventh, which scored Moniz on the play. Assumption pounded out 11 hits in the game.

Sophomore hurler Mandi Adee (Kinderhook, N.Y.) suffered the loss in the pitching circle despite going 6.0 innings, and yielding four runs on nine hits with five walks and three strikeouts.

Franklin Pierce returns to action Thursday when the Ravens travel to Colchester, Vt. to face Saint Michael’s in a single game beginning at 4 p.m. The Ravens won the first two games in the season series with the Purple Knights, as they took a doubleheader in Rindge on Tuesday. Franklin Pierce won game one, 12-4, in five innings, and game two, 8-0, in six innings.

For more information on Franklin Pierce softball, please visit the team’s page at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu. To follow the program even further, please visit Franklin Pierce Athletics on YouTube (www.youtube.com/FranklinPierceSports), Twitter (www.twitter.com/FPUathletics) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/FranklinPierceRavens). Fans wishing to purchase Franklin Pierce softball apparel can do so on the athletic department’s online store at http://athletics.franklinpierce.edu/store(.)