Home sweet home. After 13 games on the road, the Stony Brook softball team was finally able to open up their home games last weekend against Fairfield, Quinnipiac, and Long Island, in what was called the Stony Brook Invitational.
However, with two out of three losses during the weekend and being the victim of a one-hitter against Long Island, home turned out to be a bit sour for the team. In the first game against Fairfield on Saturday, SB was off to a quick start when Victoria Kavitsky singled and brought home Ashley Westphal for an RBI in the first.
In the second inning, SB added another run when Westphal singled and brought home Sara Cerrone. The two run lead by SB was short lived when Fairfield scored 4 runs off of starting pitcher Sarah Hoffmann in the bottom of the second inning. In the top of the third, Marissa Fleury blasted a homerun and SB was within one run of tying the game, but Fairfield denied them that chance and score another run at the top of the fourth inning.
SB would end up losing the game 5-3. The loss went to Sarah Hoffmann. Despite the loss against Fairfield, SB would end up winning the next game against Quinnipiac on the very same day. In SB’s second home game, the team continued to score early with Westphal’s homerun and Fleury’s two run homerun in the bottom of the first. They added another run in the second when Hoffmann, who reached on a fielder’s choice, ran home on Kavitsky’s double. Quinnipiac got two runs in the seventh off of pitcher Alyssa Struzenberg before Christina Voth came in for the save. SB would win the game 4-2 with Struzenberg getting the win.
With the win against Quinnipiac on Saturday, SB was unable to carry that winning momentum against Long Island on Sunday. The game belonged to Long Island because the entire SB team was only able to get one hit off of LIU’s Jenny Giles. Kavitsky had the only hit of the game which was a double to center field at the bottom of the sixth inning. Voth was the starting pitcher and gave up two runs at the top of the fifth inning before being substituted by Struzenberg, who pitched the remaining three innings of the game and gave up one run at top of the seventh.
SB lost the game 3-0. Voth would end up getting the loss. SB came up second in the Stony Brook Invitational. They are now at an 8-8 record for the season. Their next game will be against Army on Wednesday, Mar. 28. It will be a double header and the first pitch is scheduled for 2:00 PM.
