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THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
Michaela Transue
Michaela Transue
5
Hofstra HOFSTRA 7-7-1
5
Florida Atlantic FAU 19-5-1
Hofstra HOFSTRA
7-7-1
5
Final
5
Florida Atlantic FAU
19-5-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Hofstra HOFSTRA 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 5 8 1
Florida Atlantic FAU 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 5 17 0

Game Recap: Softball | | By Brian Bohl

SB: Hofstra Plays FAU To 5-5 Tie

Boca Raton, Fla. – Hofstra erased a one-run deficit by scoring three times in the top of the seventh, but Florida Atlantic tied the game in the bottom of the inning and each team exchanged single runs in both the 10th and 11th frames as the Pride and Owls played to a rare 5-5 tie on Sunday in the finale of the FAU Parents' Weekend Tournament. The game ended after 11 innings because of travel considerations.

Junior outfielder Caryn Bailey lined two doubles and drove in three runs with one swing in the seventh and joined teammates Chloe Fitzgerald and Kim Smith as three Hofstra player to reach record two hits. Alyssa Cuzzola scored two runs to move Hofstra to 7-7-1. Hofstra went 2-2-1 in the five-game tournament.

FAU pitcher Amanda Wilson threw an 11-inning complete game and allowed five runs (three earned) while striking out 12. She registered 157 pitches while Alex Miller went 4-for-4 with a RBI. The Owls moved to 19-5-1.

Senior pitcher Morgan Lashley threw 100 pitches in seven innings for the Pride and gave up just one earned run while striking out nine. Fellow senior Taylor Pirone did not allow an earned run in four innings of relief.

Lashley and Wilson exchanged zeros until FAU broke through in the fifth. Delaney Rickey hit a leadoff single off Lashley that brought in Pirone, and Christina Martinez drove her in on a RBI infield single.

Florida Atlantic was two outs away from the shutout victory in the seventh before Smith, a junior third baseman, reached on an infield single. Sophomore Christie Sinacori kept Hofstra's hopes alive in a pinch-hitting appearance with two outs. Down to the team's last strike, Sinacori battled back from an 0-2 count and walked to keep the game alive.

Fitzgerald then singled to center to loaded the bases, which Bailey cleared on a double to center. One again, the Pride went down to the team's last strike before Bailey hit a three-run extra-base hit with two strikes.

FAU had its own dramatic moments in the bottom of the inning. Rickey reached on a fielding error before Pirone retired the next two batters. Back-to-back infield singles drove in a run to make it 3-2 before Laura Mann singled up the middle to tie the game.

Despite tiebreaker rules putting a runner on second to start every extra inning, neither team scored in the eighth or ninth. Freshman Brittany Allocca's sacrifice fly to right in the 10th scored Cuzzola and gave Allocca a team-leading 12 RBIs in her first 15 collegiate games.

Miller singled in Hanson in the bottom of the inning. Hanson was placed on second to start the inning.

Sophomore Michaela Transue reestablished Hofstra's one-run lead in the top of the 11th on a RBI single down the right field line to score sophomore Lacey Clark. Emily Lochten doubled in Lindsey Shell in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at 5. The game was called after 11 innings due to Hofstra's scheduled flight back to New York.
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