Game One Box Score (UNH 16, Le Moyne 3)
Game Two Box Score (UNH 2, Le Moyne 1)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Le Moyne College has played some of the best teams in Div. II this season, including No. 1 North Georgia. Despite that, it was the University of New Haven softball team that handed the Dolphins with their worst loss this season. The Chargers showed defending Northeast-10 Champions Le Moyne no mercy as UNH picked up a pair of wins in Syracuse on Saturday afternoon. UNH collected a 16-3 win in the first game of the doubleheader. In the nightcap, Le Moyne was stingy allowing just two UNH runs, however it was the Chargers who walked away with the 2-1 win. New Haven improves to 12-2 overall and 2-0 in the NE-10, while Le Moyne slips to 2-10 overall and 0-2 in the NE-10.

Game One
The Chargers wasted no time getting on the boards, adding seven runs in the top of the first. UNH’s first three batters all singled in their opening at bat to have the bases loaded with no outs for No. 4 batter Meghan Walter (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore ). Walter drilled a ball to left field for a double that brought in three runs. Courtney Garland (East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow ) kept the momentum up with single to right field and help from a fielding error that allowed Amy Nepi (New Castle, Del./St. Elizabeth ) and Walter to score. The Chargers capped off the inning with a double from Christina Gelardi (Derby, Conn./Derby) that brought in two more runs. UNH finished the inning with seven runs on eight hits.

The Chargers continued to overwhelm Le Moyne with four runs in the second and a single run in both the third and fourth.

New Haven capped off its five-inning blitz of Le Moyne with three runs in its final at bat. With Garland on first from a single to right field, Gabby Cruz (Bay Shore, N.Y./Bay Shore ) homered over the center field fence for her first home run of 2010. The Chargers added their 16th and final run of the game when Elise Rosanio (Broomall, Pa./Newtown Square), who was pinch hitting for Gelardi, singled up the middle, driving in Chelsea Harold (Oxford, Conn./Seymour ) from second.

The Dolphins only response was three runs in the third.

10 different Chargers produced UNH’s 22 hits over the five innings. Nicole Downs (Seymour, Conn./Seymour) led New Haven with four hits, while Breanne Gleason (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Central ) and Nepi each added three apiece.

Gleason picked up the win on the mound – her tenth this season.

Game Two
After a monster 22 hit game for the Chargers in a game one, the bats quieted down in the nightcap.

A pitcher’s duel between UNH’s Keri Tricinelli (Brick, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) and Le Moyne’s Bailey Phillips ended in the top of the fouth. The Chargers broke the deadlock with a sacrifice bunt from Nepi that brought in Downs from third.

In the top of the fifth, Gleason had an RBI single to center field that drove in Harold to extend the lead to 2-0.

The Dolphins mounted a comeback in the bottom of the stanza, starting the inning off with a solo home run from Amanda Daum. However, Gleason came in to relieve Tricinelli on the mound and kept Le Moyne from swiping the tying run.

The respective pitchers kept their opponent's bats quite for the remaining innings, allowing the Chargers to sneak by with the 2-1 win.

Downs went three-for-three in game two, while Tricinelli recorded the win and Gleason tallied the save.
 
New Haven will wrap up its Upstate New York campaign in Albany with a doubleheader against College of the Saint Rose on Sunday. The first pitch is set for 12:00 p.m.