Softball Takes Two More on Sunday

The Central Connecticut softball team won a pair of games on Sunday in Elon, N.C. to move to 4-0 overall on the season. Central travelled to Elon University for the Elon Softball Tournament on the weekend, and after winning a pair of games on Saturday they then topped Hampton 10-5 in the first game on Sunday and then topped Lafayette 2-0 in the fourth and final game of the Tournament.

Game #2 vs. Lafayette

Senior Laura Messina pitched a complete-game, two-hit shutout in a 2-0 victory for CCSU over Lafayette in the second game on Sunday. The win moves Messina's record to 3-0 and she has yet to allow an earned run on the season. Messina tallied eight strikeouts, allowed two hits and did not walk a batter in the game. For the second-straight game, Messina also did not allow a batter to reach passed second base.

Junior Katie Schmidt provided all of the offense Messina and the Blue Devils would need as she drove in both runs for CCSU with a single in the bottom of the fourth inning. With the bases loaded and no outs, Schmidt knocked a base hit up the middle to plate junior Eillen Purcell and senior Kat Malcolm.

Messina would take care of the rest en route to her second-straight shutout of the season.

Purcell finished the game 2-for-2 with a walk and smacked her second double of the season. Junior Evie Rentzel also recorded a multi-hit game, finishing 2-for-3 at the dish with a pair of singles.

Game #1 vs. Hampton

In the first game of the day, freshman Emily Sargent picked up her first collegiate win in her first collegiate start in the circle for the Blue Devils. Sargent pitched seven innings and allowed three earned runs, striking out one.

The Blue Devils scored a season-high 10 runs in the win, including an eight-run first inning when 13 batters went to the plate and Central took an 8-3 lead. They scored eight runs on seven hits in the inning.

The Blue Devils totalled 13 hits in the game and scored two more in the fourth inning to build a 10-3 lead for the rookie, Sargent. Hampton would plate two in the fifth to try and cut into the Blue Devil lead, but Sargent retired six of the final seven Hampton batters to secure the 10-5 victory.

Five Blue Devils had two or more hits in the game and senior Kat Malcolm and junior Mackenzie Keyes each drove in two runs in the win. Malcolm was the only Blue Devil to record an extra-base hit game with her one-out double in the top of the sixth.

Central returns to action at home on Tuesday, hosting Hartford in a double-header beginning at 2 p.m. on the CCSU Softball Field.