Softball Extends Winning Streak to School-Record Tying 18 With Doubleheader Sweep of Mount St. Mary's |
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In the second contest, junior Jessie DePippo (Westlake Village, Calif.) belted two home runs and had four RBIs as the Blackbirds rolled to their school-record tying 18th straight victory,a 9-1 decision, in five innings. Giles was dominant throughout the first game, allowing only two hits and three base runners the entire game. She walked none and struck out five while improving to 15-6 on the season and lowering her ERA to 1.68. Junior Celina Castillo (Bay Area, Calif.) added a 5-for-5 performance from the plate over the two games, including a home run and three runs batted in. Senior Randi Gillespie (San Jose, Calif.) contributed three hits to push her season total to 64 and break LIU's all-time single-season hits record (Rosette Rough - 63 in 2003). Long Island opened the scoring in the first game with a single run in the first. Gillespie led off with a base hit, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and scored on an opposite-field single by Castillo. Castillo did more damage two innings later with her two-run shot to right center field that gave the Blackbirds a 3-0 lead. Gillespie hit a round tripper of her own the next inning, a solo shot to left. Castillo then tallied her third RBI of the game with single in the sixth inning and pinch runner Andrea Diaz (Staten Island, N.Y.) scored the final run of the contest on a double steal and throwing error on the catcher. In the second game, LIU pounded out 10 hits, eight of which went for extra bases, in the 9-1, run-rule victory. Castillo added her second homer of the day in the opening inning while DePippo hit her blasts in the second and fourth frames. Freshman Raylene Asman (Escondido, Calif.) added a two-run home run in the third and also had a double to right center in the fourth. The offensive outburst was more than enough for freshman Blaire Porter (Redmond, Wash.), who set a career high with 11 strikeouts over five innings of work to pick up her 11th win of the year. LIU will look for a school-record 19th straight win as it hosts Hofstra in a non-conference contest beginning at 4:00 p.m.
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4/22/07 --
Sophomore Jenny Giles (Melbourne, Fla.) pushed her scoreless-innings streak to
42 innings and recorded her sixth consecutive shutout to help
lead the Long Island University softball team to a 6-0 victory
over
Mount
St. Mary's
in the
first game
of a Northeast Conference doubleheader on Sunday morning at
LIU Field.