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THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
Erin Trippi
Erin Trippi
2
Hofstra HOFSTRA 38-14-1
3
Winner Florida Atlantic FAU 39-18-1
Hofstra HOFSTRA
38-14-1
2
Final
3
Florida Atlantic FAU
39-18-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hofstra HOFSTRA 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 1
Florida Atlantic FAU 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 0

W: Hanson, K (18-5) L: Lashley, Morgan (19-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | By Brian Bohl

SB: Hofstra Falls To FAU In Nine-Inning Elimination Gainesville Regional Matchup

Gainesville, Fla. – Florida Atlantic's Alex Miller hit a game-winning RBI double to the right-center gap in the ninth inning as Hofstra lost, 3-2, to the Owls in an elimination game in the NCAA Gainesville Regional on Saturday evening at Florida's Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.

Senior pitcher Morgan Lashley and FAU left-hander Amanda Wilson squared off in a pitcher's duel with Lashley logging the complete game. The Pride ended the 2015 season as the Colonial Athletic Association champions and posted a 38-14-1 record. FAU, which defeated Florida A&M earlier in the day in the loser's bracket, improved to 39-18-1 and advanced to face host and top-seeded Florida in the regionals finals on Sunday at 1 p.m. The Gators need one more win to advance to the super regionals while FAU would need two victories.

Hofstra played its first NCAA Tournament extra-inning game since the 2013 Columbia Regional in which the Pride defeated Oregon State in 10 innings. Miller's hit in the gap scored Melissa Martinez, who worked a leadoff walk to start the ninth. Lashley took the loss in falling to 19-3. The Davidson, North Carolina native threw 130 pitches and ended her season with a 1.96 ERA and her career record over two years at Army and two at Hofstra is a combined 98-38.

Senior catcher Erin Trippi and freshman Megan Patierno registered back-to-back RBI base hits in the second to stake Lashley to a 2-0 lead.

Trippi drove in her first run of the NCAA Tournament, hitting an opposite-field single that dropped just inside the rightfield line that scored sophomore Lacey Clark in the second. Patierno's RBI double to right off Wilson brought in Trippi from first, as Hofstra doubled its run production through the first two regional games in the inning. It also marked Patierno's first career RBI in regional play.

Hofstra stranded nine FAU runners in the Pride's 1-0 win on Friday and again danced around trouble in the opening inning. Lindsey Shell and Christina Martinez hit back-to-back infield singles before Lashley retired the next three batters. Following a sacrifice bunt, Lashley struck out Emily Lochten and induced a harmless fly out to left to get out of the jam.

FAU struck for two runs in the third. Delaney Rickey pulled a leadoff single to the left side and scored on Christina Martinez's RBI triple. Following a strikeout, Martinez scored on a wild pitch that skipped to the backstop to tie the score.

The game remained knotted at 2 and stayed that way in the sixth when junior left fielder Chloe Fitzgerald made a diving catch to rob Lochten of a base hit and junior center fielder Caryn Bailey stretched out to snag Melissa Martinez's sinking liner to send the game to the seventh tied.

FAU put two runners on base in the seventh, but a runner's interference call ended the inning after it appeared the Owls loaded the bases. Pinch-runner Sarah Howell was called out going from second to third on Shell's grounder to end the inning.

Wilson pitched into the eighth inning but was relieved after Clark's leadoff single in the eighth. Kylee Hanson induced a pop out and struck out the next two as Wilson took the no-decision after holding the Pride to six hits while striking out three.

Hanson struck out four in two scoreless innings of relief and retired all six batters faced to improve to 18-5.
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