Box Score April 7, 2013
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Bronx, N.Y. -
Wrapping up one of the best offensive weekends in recent memory, the Fordham softball team was at it again on Sunday, posting a doubleheader sweep of Rhode Island at Bahoshy Field by scores of 6-2 and 12-2. The day was highlighted by yet another milestone for senior Jamie LaBovick, as she extended her record hit streak to 22 games, the longest by any Fordham softball or baseball player in school history.
With the doubleheader sweep, Fordham improved to 23-12 on the season, 7-3 in the Atlantic 10, while Rhode Island fell to 7-19 overall, 2-5 in the league.
In game one, Elise Fortier collected three hits and Michele Daubman pitched a complete game five-hitter, as Fordham won the opening contest over Rhode Island, 6-2.
After Rhode Island grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first, Fordham scored three times in the third to take a 3-1 lead. Fortier led off with a double to right, and one out later, scored on a single by Daubman. Kayla Lombardo quickly followed with a two-run home run to left, her fifth of the season.
Rhode Island responded with a home run of its own to make it a 3-2 game, as Ashley Olson hit a solo shot to left center, her first of the year.
Fordham regained its two-run lead in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Daubman, and then added to the lead in the sixth with two more runs. With a runner on a second and two outs, Sammi Smith rolled out a triple through the left side that ran all the way to the wall, scoring Chelsea Palumbo from second. That gave Jamie LaBovick one more at bat to extend her hit streak, as she did not have a hit in three at bats. LaBovick would deliver a base hit up the middle to score Smith from third, moving the hit streak to 21 games.
Daubman handled the rest, pitching a complete game, five-hitter for her 12th win of the season. She also helped her own cause at the plate, going 1-for-2 with two RBI and a run scored.
At the plate, Fortier was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, while Lombardo was 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI.
Game two saw Fortier and Palumbo lead the offense as each hit a home run, while freshman Patti Maloney registered her first career win in the circle, as Fordham topped Rhode Island, 12-2, in five innings.
Fordham got the offense rolling immediately in the first, when LaBovick led off the game with a single to right, giving her a 22-game hitting streak. It is now the longest hitting streak in Fordham history by any softball or baseball player. The previous mark was shared by baseball's Bob DiVincenzo in 1977 and Ray Montgomery in 1988 at 21 games. After a strikeout and a wild pitch, Gabby Luety drove a ground rule double to center, scoring LaBovick from second for a 1-0 lead.
The Rams then took advantage of a Rhode Island error to eventually explode for five runs in the second to take a 6-0 lead. The error would allow one run to score, but it also led to a bases clearing double by Lombardo, scoring three runs, as well as to an RBI-single by Fortier.
Fordham then made it, 7-0, in the third, when Palumbo lined out a solo home run to left for her sixth of the season.
After a solo home run got Rhode Island on the board in the fourth, Fordham replied with two runs in the bottom half of the inning on a two-run single by Daubman, making it 9-1.
Rhode Island extended the game with a single run in the fifth, but Fordham closed out the game in the bottom half of the inning, when Fortier hit a three-run home run to right center, her team-leading 14th of the season.
Freshman pitcher Patti Maloney held her own in her first career start for the Rams. She allowed just two runs on three hits over five innings with three strikeouts, earning her first collegiate win. At the plate, Fortier was 3-for-4 with a home run, two runs scored, and four RBI, while Palumbo was 3-for-3 with a home run and two runs scored. Lombardo also added two hits and three RBI with Smith going 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
The Fordham softball team will next be in action on Wednesday, April 10th, when Fordham hosts Lehigh for a doubleheader, beginning at 3:00 PM.
