Box Score (Game #1)
Box Score (Game #2)
EDWARDSVILLE, PA. – The William Paterson softball team (11-4-1) ran its unbeaten streak to seven games with a 4-0 and 12-4 (five innings) doubleheader sweep at Wilkes (5-11) March 28.
GAME ONE
Junior
Lindsey Nadolny (Belford N.J./Middletown North) was 3-for-4 at the plate, hit a pair of doubles, scored twice and drove in two runs during the Pioneers' opening 4-0 victory.
Nadolny plated sophomore
Raquel Roder (Hoboken, N.J./Hoboken) with a first-inning double and later trotted home on a
Jenna Vitale (Kenilworth, N.J./David Brearley) two-bagger, allowing William Paterson to take an early 2-0 lead. A solo homer to left by senior
Christina Zippler (Blackwood, N.J./Washington Twp.) made it a 3-0 score in the third, and a Nadolny home run to lead off the top of the seventh inning finished the scoring.
Sophomore
Michele Graham (Hawthorne, N.J./Hawthorne) threw the complete-game victory (6-4), striking out nine and walking one in 7.0 innings while giving up just three hits.
GAME TWO
An eight-run second inning helped William Paterson cruise to a 12-4 win in five innings. Vitale was 3-for-4 at the plate, hit a double and contributed two RBI and a pair of runs scored, all while earning the win inside the circle (4-0) while allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits.
Vitale singled in junior
Jillian Mulderig (Sewell, N.J./Washington Twp.) for a 1-0 edge in the top of the first, but the Colonels answered with a RBI-double to knot the score during the home half of the inning.
However, the Pioneers took control of the contest when they pushed across eight runners in the second, using six hits and four Wilkes errors, including a two-run triple off the bat of junior Heather
Mendez (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge), to surge ahead by a 9-1 count.
William Paterson tacked on three more runs during the top of the fifth inning, including a squeeze bunt by
Mandy Muraca (Miller Place, N.Y./Miller Place).
Mendez was 3-for-4 with a double, triple, three RBI and two runs scored. Six other players added hits for the Pioneers.
William Paterson will visit Drew Wednesday, March 31, at 3:00 p.m.
