Game one box score
Game two box score

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – The Southern Connecticut State University softball team continued its early season successes with two victories at Adelphi University on Wednesday afternoon. The Owls defeated the Panthers 8-1 in game one and 8-5 in game two. Southern improved to 10-2 on the season while Adelphi dropped to 10-6 with the loss.

Senior Christina Wolf (Newtown, Conn.) would provide all the run support that starting pitcher Kerry Iacomini (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.) needed with a three-run bomb in the top of the first. Wolf belted her first home run of the season driving in Monica Savarese (Orange, Conn.) and Megan Caporossi (Northford, Conn.) for an early 3-0 lead.

Iacomini was terrific outside of one mishap in the bottom of the second and collected her fourth victory of the season. She hurled a complete game, allowed just one run on five hits and walked one batter.

Iacomini provided more insurance for herself with a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Junior Caporossi tagged her second home run of the year in the fifth, propelling the Owls to an 8-1 victory at Janet L. Ficke Field.

In game two, it took Southern until the top of the second inning to reach the scoreboard. Despite just four hits in the game, the Owls capitalized when runners reached the base path. Robin Priest (Cheshire, Conn.) was hit by a pitch in the second that forced in the first run of the game. Khristle Lee (Aztec, N.M.) pushed the second run across the plate when she reached on a fielders choice, giving the Owls a 2-0 lead.

The Panthers battled back in the fourth and fifth and tacked on five runs of their own. Adelphi led off the fifth with back-to-back home runs extending its lead to 5-2 entering the sixth inning.

However, sophomore Julianne Flood (Poughquag, N.Y.) led off the sixth with a walk, followed by a walk by Priest, giving the Owls first and second. Savarese laced a single past the infield which scored Flood from second. Brittany Gandley (Holbrook, N.Y.) reached on an error, scored Priest and set the stage for Wolf. Wolf crushed a grandslam over the wall retaking the lead 8-5 heading into the last inning. Brittany Hill (Durham, Conn.) closed out the seventh collecting her third win of the season.

Southern is back in action tomorrow, March 26 with a doubleheader at Pelz Field. First pitch is set for 2:30 p.m.