Aughinbaugh Fires Three-Hit Shutout in 7-0 Win over Dayton

Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham softball team picked up its third consecutive Atlantic 10 series win on Sunday with a resounding 7-0 win over Dayton in the weekend rubber game. With the win, the Rams improve to 13-20 overall on the season and 6-3 in conference play, while the Flyers fall to 18-18 and 6-3, respectively.
 
Junior Madie Aughinbaugh was masterful in the circle, firing a three-hit shutout, her first of the year and 12^th of her career, moving her out of a tie with former teammate Lauren Quense 

and into solo fifth all-time. Aughinbaugh allowed just three singles with no walks and two strikeouts on the day. 
 
The Fordham offense began the day on fire, plating all seven runs in the first two innings. Jordy Storm started the opening rally with a single up the middle before Rachel Hubertus walked. Molly Roark then stroked a single to center to drive in Storm and Aughinbaugh did the same to score Hubertus. After a Kylie Michael walk to load the bases, Sarah Taffet struck for a two-out, two-run single to put the hosts up four through one inning of play.
 
Abby Ehrenborg reached on an error to lead off the second but Aughinbaugh induced three straight groundouts to get out of the frame. Chelsea Skrepenak led off the bottom of the frame with a hustle triple to the left center gap and scored a batter later when Storm missed a home run to dead center by a foot. Roark drove Storm in with a single to left center and scored from first on a Maria Trivelpiece single, rounding third and continuing home on a muffed catch by the third baseman.
 
The offense stalled out after that, threatening twice more with runners in scoring position but never bringing anyone home to enact the run rule. Aughinbaugh allowed just two more singles, one in the fifth and one in the sixth, the rest of the way.
 
Roark and Storm each tallied three hits, the former also getting intentionally walked in her final at-bat, and two runs scored. Five others notched one hit apiece, while Michael walked twice.
 
For the series, Roark slashed a ridiculous .800/.917/1.400 thanks to seven walks, three in each of the first two contests, with four hits, including one home run, three runs, three runs driven in, and no strikeouts. Trivelpiece batted .583 with a team-high seven hits, all singles, while Storm slugged .833 with six hits and four runs scored. Skrepenak also scored four times to lead the team.
 
Aughinbaugh went the distance in each of her two starts, allowing just one run over 14.0 frames to pick up two more wins, giving her five in conference play thus far. She allowed just nine hits and struck out five.
 
Fordham next travels to St. Bonaventure for a doubleheader this Wednesday afternoon beginning at 2 p.m. The Rams will then host Saint Louis for a three-game series next weekend at Bahoshy Field.