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Lauren Quense hit a grand slam, collected five RBI and earned the victory in the circle, as the Fordham softball team slugged Saint Peter's, 14-1, in five innings Saturday at Bahoshy Field. With the victory, the Rams increase their win streak to four and improve to 10-13 on the season, while the Peacocks fall to 0-11 overall.
Fordham pounded out 12 hits and took advantage of a pair of Saint Peters' errors. Junior
Sydney Canessa started the scoring in the bottom of the first when she smoked a towering two-run bomb over the left center field fence – her career-high sixth of the season – that plated fellow classmate
Amy Van Hoven. Later in the inning Quesne finally worked a RBI bases-loaded walk on the 13th pitch of the at-bat, which scored junior
Lindsay Mayer, before junior
Ally Vergona drove home graduate student
Rachel Gillen with a RBI sacrifice fly to produce a 4-0 lead after one.
After the Peacocks scored their lone run in the top of the second, Fordham answered with four more runs in the bottom half to extend its lead to 8-1. Mayer stroked a ground-rule, two-run double to left center field with the bases load that plated freshman
Jessica Hughes and Van Hoven, and sophomore
Madison Shaw ripped a RBI single through the right side to score Canessa, before Mayer came around on an error by the right fielder.
In the third inning, the Rams scored five times to take a 13-1 lead. Mayer singled home Van Hoven, before Fordham loaded the bases to set up Quense, who hit a line drive grand slam down the left field line, as Mayer, senior
Cailin Winokur and Shaw all came along for the ride. The Rams then scored its final run in the bottom of the fourth when freshman
Kylie Michael collected her first career RBI with a groundout that scored senior
Allie Bradian.
Eight of the nine starters recorded a hit, with Mayer and Shaw each recording a pair. Quense added five RBI and Mayer three, while Van Hoven stole a pair of bases.
Quense (4-5) tossed three innings, allowing one earned run hit to go along with two walks and four strikeouts, including striking out the side in her final frame of work, before Mayer yielded a hit and walk while fanning two in 2.0 innings of work.
The two sides will play Sunday at Bahoshy Field, with first pitch slated for 12 p.m.
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