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THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
THE PRIDE OF LONG ISLAND
Brittany Allocca
Brittany Allocca hit a grand slam in Hofstra's road win at CofC
11
Winner Hofstra HOFSTRA 34-11-1, 17-3 CAA
5
Charleston COFC 24-29, 8-13 CAA
Winner
Hofstra HOFSTRA
34-11-1, 17-3 CAA
11
Final
5
Charleston COFC
24-29, 8-13 CAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hofstra HOFSTRA 0 4 4 1 0 1 1 11 11 2
Charleston COFC 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 12 0

W: Pirone, Taylor (15-10) L: Pizzoli, Alex (1-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | By Brian Bohl

SB: Hofstra Caps Regular Season With Series Sweep Over Charleston

Mount Pleasant, S.C. – Hofstra saw two freshmen combine for seven RBIs as catcher Brittany Allocca hit a grand slam and outfielder Brielle Pietrafesa added a three-run home run to power Hofstra to an 11-5 victory over the College of Charleston in the regular season finale Saturday afternoon at Patriots Point.

Senior pitcher Taylor Pirone pitched 4 1/3 innings in relief to improve to 15-10. Hofstra scored 31 runs in the three-game sweep and has won nine games in a row overall.

Hofstra entered the weekend secured of the second spot in the Colonial Athletic Association Championship from May 6-8 at top seed James Madison's campus. The Pride will play the first day at 3 pm. in a matchup of the second and third seeds as JMU will face the fourth seed at 12 p.m.

The Pride will enter the conference tournament with momentum having won its ninth straight game in improving to 34-11-1. Head Coach Larissa Anderson guided Hofstra to a 17-3 CAA record in her first season at the helm with the Pride going 9-0 against the league on the road this season. Charleston ended its season 24-29 and 7-14.

Pietrafesa, who was one of four freshmen in the Hofstra starting lineup, took Alex Pizzoli deep to left for a three-run shot that sparked a four-run second inning. Sophomore second baseman Lacey Clark's solo home run started the frame. Pizzoli was lifted to start the third inning and fell to 1-1.

Mackenzie Maples pulled Hofstra starter Morgan Lashley's first-pitch offering deep to right that clashed off the wall for a triple. As Maples rounded second, and an errant throw from that sailed beyond the cutoff man and rolled near the CofC dugout as Maples scored the opening run.

Clark responded in the top of the second by pulling a solo home run to left. Her career-high fifth homer brought her RBI total to 29, which is 17 more than her freshman tally in 2014.

Allocca singled and fellow freshman Megan Patierno walked to set up Pietrafesa's two-out blast. Pietrafesa ended her first regular season with seven home runs, which is tied with Patierno for the second-most on the team behind junior Caryn Bailey's 12.

Allocca hit her first career grand slam in the third, concluding a stretch of four consecutive batters to reach off reliever Valerie Cassell. Allocca's fifth home run put Hofstra ahead, 8-1.

Maples worked a two-out walk and scored her second run of the game on Becca Mueller's RBI double in the third. Lashley issued a walk to put two runners on and Pirone entered in relief and struck out Chandler Frisbie to strand both inherited runners.

Junior Kim Smith, who registered six RBIs in Friday's doubleheader sweep, drove in junior Chloe Fitzgerald for an insurance run the fourth. Charleston looked to make a comeback bid in the bottom of the inning by loading the bases with nobody out. But Pirone induced two force outs at home and a harmless fly out to left to escape trouble and preserve Hofstra's 9-2 edge.

Charleston put the first two runners on in the fifth before Pietrafesa squashed a rally on a diving catch in shallow right. The Cougars scored three runs in the inning before the Pride responded on sophomore Michaela Transue's run-scoring double in the sixth.

Charleston's Hope Klicker, who is injured, came out to start the last game of her collegiate career on the Cougar's senior day before being replaced by Pizzoli before the first pitch. Klicker was a 2014 NFCA second-team mid-Atlantic selection.

All four of Hofstra's freshmen in the lineup batting consecutively in the order. Allocca, Patierno, Nikki Michalowski and Pietrafesa hit 6-through-9 and combined for four hits and reached safely eight times.
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