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Gamache at CAA Championship
9
Winner Hofstra HOFSTRA 26-24
5
UNCW UNCW 23-26
Winner
Hofstra HOFSTRA
26-24
9
Final
5
UNCW UNCW
23-26
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Hofstra HOFSTRA 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 12 1
UNCW UNCW 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 3

W: Mullin, Nikki (6-9) L: Gamache, Janel (6-5)

11
Winner Stony Brook SBU 28-26
9
UNCW UNCW 23-27
Winner
Stony Brook SBU
28-26
11
Final
9
UNCW UNCW
23-27
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Stony Brook SBU 2 0 0 0 4 2 3 11 10 4
UNCW UNCW 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 9 9 1

W: M. Haynes (18-8) L: Hammock, Kara (10-10)

Game Recap: Softball | | Brandon Sans

Seahawks Close Season at CAA Championships

HEMPSTEAD, New York – The second-seeded UNCW softball team concluded the 2023 Colonial Athletic Association Championship with a pair of setbacks to third-seeded Hofstra and seventh-seeded Stony Brook at Bill Edwards Stadium on Thursday.

The Seahawks (23-27) fell 9-5 in nine innings to the Pride (26-24) and were then edged 11-9 by the Seawolves (28-26) in the elimination game.

GAME 1 | Hofstra 9, UNCW 5 (9 innings)

Hofstra's Madison McKevitt's grand slam in the top of the ninth inning lifted the Pride over UNCW after both teams scored five runs in the first three innings.
 
The teams combined for 19 hits in the extra-inning affair, including five extra-base knocks.
 
The Seahawks used three pitchers – Kara Hammock, Emily Winstead and Janel Gamache (6-5) – with Winstead using 113 pitches to toss five scoreless relief innings.
 
The Pride's Nikki Mullen (6-9) picked up the win with 6.2 relief innings where she scattered three hits and surrendered a pair of unearned runs.
 
Hofstra struck first with an unearned run in the top of the first before fifth-year Jada Santiago launched a two-out, two-run home run to put UNCW ahead 2-1.
 
The Seahawks added a run in the second when fifth-year Logan Bjorson singled home senior Mary Sobataka, who started the frame with a base hit up the middle.
 
A four-run third inning, in which the Pride sent all nine batters to the plate, put Hofstra back in front. UNCW then countered again with a Santiago sac-fly, her season-high third RBI of the game, and Sobataka's second straight hit to even it at 5-all.
 
From there, the teams traded five scoreless innings, with Hofstra stranding 12 runners on base after the third inning, until McKevitt's grand slam broke the deadlock.
 
GAME 2 | Stony Brook 11, UNCW 9

SBU completed a rally from a 7-2 deficit with a three-run seventh inning to advance to Friday's elimination game vs. top-seeded Delaware at 2:30 p.m.

The Seawolves struck first with a pair of runs in the top of the first, including an Alyssa Costello home run on the fourth pitch of the game.

UNCW responded with a five-run fifth inning that featured RBI hits by Gamache, Santiago and Sobataka, who recorded three of the Seahawks' nine hits in the game.

Sophomore Arial Pearce double home a run in the bottom of the fourth and then came around to score on a Gamache single one batter later that made it 7-2.

SBU, down by five runs, began to mount its comeback in the top of the fifth with four runs but UNCW cashed in a Sobataka triple in the bottom frame to push its advantage to 8-6 entering the sixth.

After Costello singled with one out, the Seawolves' Catherine Anne Kupinski launched a game-tying home run to left field that Pearce nearly caught over the wall. With the game tied at 8-all, the Seahawks again took the lead in the bottom of the sixth with Santiago's third RBI of the game and sixth of the day.

The Seawolves started the seventh inning with a pair of walks and sent eight batters to the plate in the three-run, two-hit frame that flipped the lead in their favor, 11-9, for good.

SBU's Mia Haynes (18-8) earned the win with a complete game effort while Hammock (10-10) took the loss for UNCW.



 
 
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