UNION, N.J. (5/3/23) – Melody Caces went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and four stolen bases as the Kean University softball team swept a doubleheader with Centenary University on Wednesday afternoon.
Kean 8, Centenary 0 (5 Inn.)
- The Cougars did all their damage in the second and fourth innings with four runs apiece.
- Kean collected four runs on three hits and three errors in the second.
- Brianna Sciulli was the only Cougars to notch an RBI in that inning.
- Annabella Marino, Emily Zuppa and Andee Perseponko all crossed the dish in the second.
- Kean collected four more runs on two hits in the fourth.
- Gianna Pickens, Sydney Hixenbaugh, and Marino all notched RBI's in that inning
- Hixenbaugh went 1-for-3 with two RBI's at the plate, while tossing a complete game with five strikeouts.
- Pickens, Marino, Sciulli, Zuppa, and Perseponko all tallied one hit apiece.
Kean 5, Centenary 2
- The Cougars struck first in game two with an RBI groundout by Karly Messina.
- Centenary answered with a two RBI double in the second to take a 2-1 lead.
- Perseponko evened the game at 2-2 in the fourth with an RBI triple to right center.
- Marino put the Cougars back in front with an RBI single that scored Caces in the fifth.
- Two more runs crossed the dish in the sixth after a Cyclones error.
- Caces finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored.
- Marino, Autaum Hilyer, Natalie Stannard, and Perseponko all notched a hit apiece.
- Abby Burns struck out a batter in the complete game victory.
Head Coach
Margie Acker and the Cougars will return to action in Ewing, N.J. on Saturday, May, 6
th against the College of New Jersey Lions in a NJAC Tournament first round matchup at 1:00 p.m.