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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – On Saturday, the Manhattan College softball team played two games at the Santa Clara Marriott Round Robin. After dropping a 5-2 decision to UC Santa Barbara (10-19), the Jaspers (8-6) rallied for seven runs over the final two innings to turn a one-run lead into an 8-0 victory over Brown (3-5) at the Santa Clara Softball Field.
Against UC Santa Barbara, Elena Bowman (San Mateo, Calif.) continued her hot streak, belting her eighth home run since Sunday to give the Jaspers a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. However, the Gauchos immediately got those two runs back in the bottom half of the inning, then added two more in the second and another in the third.
Manhattan's bats, meanwhile, were stifled by UCSB hurler Lena Mayer. She came in after a two-out single by Sydney Weedon (North Tustin, Calif.) in the first and only allowed three Jasper base runners over the final 6.1 innings. Manhattan's only other hit in the contest was an Amanda Paxson (Cedar Grove, N.J.) single in the sixth. Mayer retired the Jaspers in order in the seventh to cap off a 5-2 win for the Gauchos.
Bowman finished 1-for-3 with a homer and two RBIs, while Emily Cutler (Bloomingdale, N.J.) walked twice and scored the other Manhattan run. Briana Matazinsky (Valley Falls, N.Y.) (2-2) took the loss in the circle. She allowed five runs on seven hits and walked one in 2.1 innings. Anna Crowley (Eastchester, N.Y.) and Erin Hamm (Collegeville, Pa.) combined to throw 3.2 innings of shutout relief. Crowley surrendered two hits, struck out one and walked one over 2.2 innings of work, while Hamm recorded a walk and a strikeout in one inning.
Kristen Clark, Jacqueline Hinojosa and MeShalon Moore all had two hits for UC Santa Barbara. Clark also scored twice, while Hinojosa and Moore both scored a run and drove in another. Starting pitcher Ashley Ludlow couldn't get out of the first inning. She gave up two runs on two hits and a walk in 0.2 innings. Mayer (2-3) yielded just one hit and two walks while striking out one in 6.1 innings to earn the win.
In the matchup with Brown, which beat Manhattan on Friday afternoon, Amy Bright (Manlius, N.Y.) tossed a four-hit shutout.
It started off as a pitcher's duel between Bright and Leah Nakashima, as neither side was able to get on the board until the fourth. With two down in the top half of the inning, Jenn Vazquez (Fairfield, Conn.) ripped a double left center. Paxson was up next, and she gave the Jaspers a 1-0 lead with a single to left.
Still clinging to a 1-0 advantage, the Jaspers broke the game open with a six-spot in the top of the sixth. Mickayla Romero (Las Vegas, Nev.) led off the inning with a base hit, then Bowman walked and Vazquez singled to load the bases. The Bears then made a pitching change, calling upon Katie Orona, who hit the first two batters she faced. After a pair of strikeouts, Meredith Bryant (Brielle, N.J.) worked a walk to force in another run. Cutler then smacked a two-run single to center that gave Manhattan a 6-0 lead before a Romero single, her second hit of the inning, made it 7-0. The Jaspers added an insurance run in the seventh when Paxson scored on an error after a leadoff single.
That was more offense than Bright needed. She gave up a leadoff single to Annie McGregor in the bottom of the seventh, but she was immediately erased on a double play before Julia Schoenewald grounded back to the circle to end it.
After being held to four hits by UC Santa Barbara, Manhattan pounded out 10 against Brown, nine singles and Vazquez's double. Four Jaspers had multi-hit games. Paxson went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBIs, while Vazquez finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Cutler ended up 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Romero was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Bright (5-3) struck out three and didn't walk a batter, as she ran her scoreless inning streak to 15 straight with her second consecutive shutout.
Janet Leung had three of Brown's four hits in the contest. McGregor was the only other Bear to reach base with her leadoff single in the seventh. Nakashima (0-3) took the loss after surrendering four runs on seven hits and a walk in five-plus innings of work. Orona tossed two innings of relief, giving up four runs (three earned) on three hits while striking out five and walking two.
The Jaspers conclude their stay in California on Sunday, when they take on host Santa Clara (9-21) at 4:30 p.m. Manhattan earned a 2-0 extra-inning victory over the Broncos on Friday.
