Softball Blanks Seton Hall In 16 Run Game

Saturday, April 21

South Orange, NJ

12:00 PM

Pitt

Seton Hall

Softball Blanks Seton Hall In 16 Run Game

4/21/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball

April 21, 2007

Box Score

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.--12 runs and two home runs in the second inning and a one-hitter combine to lift the Panthers to a 16-0 victory over Seton Hall in game one of this afternoon's doubleheader at Ivy Hill Park.

Senior Meghan Bostick (Colleyvillle, Texas/Grapevine) pitched the first two innings, while freshman Kayla Zinger (Phoenix, Ariz./Sunnyslope) threw three innings of relief and picked up her sixth win of the season. Pitt pitched a hitless game until a pinch hitter entered the game in the fifth and singled to left field.

It all started, offensively, when freshman Alex Shoemaker (Yorktown, Va./Grafton) tallied a lead-off homer in the second inning. Shoemaker's homer was her second of the season and Pitt's 10^th.

Next, following two outs and with two runners on senior Sheena Hellon (Sacramento, Calif./Cordova) doubled to right field earning two RBI when junior Valerie Mihalik (Schnecksville, Pa./Parkland) and senior Morgan Howard (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) scored. Hellon would then steal her 23^rd base of the season, while senior Joey Scarf (Humble, Texas/Humble) would steal second base after being hit by a pitch, forcing a pitching change.

Junior Jessica Dignon (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin) drove in Hellon and Scarf with a single, giving Pitt a 5-0 lead with two outs on the board. Sophomore Samantha Card (Miami, Fla./Our Lady of Lourdes/Florida International), the ninth batter of the inning, garnered two RBI with her fourth home run of the season, scoring Dignon on the play.

Two Panthers earned bases on balls, leading to the Pirates switching their pitcher for the second time in the game. Pitt patiently accepted two more walks for another run. Then with bases loaded freshman April Ghiroli (Branford, Conn./Lyman Hall)'s ground ball was muffled, which led to two more runs.

Leading 10-0, Hellon recorded two more RBIs in the inning with a single to left field.

Later in the third inning, Dignon put the Panthers on the scoreboard with a run when Shoemaker tallied a sacrifice fly ball.

Finally in the fourth, Pitt scored another three runs off three hits and one Seton Hall error. Hellon drove in two of those runs when she tallied her second double of the game that scored senior Heather Connor (Muhlenburg, Pa./Reading) and Mihalik on the play. Hellon later notched the final run of the game when Dignon sent a shot up the middle for her second hit of the game.

Hellon was a perfect 3-for-3, scoring two runs and driving in six.

Score by Innings R H E

Pitt 0(12)1 30 - 16 9 0

Seton Hall 00 0 00 - 0 1 2