VIERA, Fla. – For the fourth time this season, Post University Softball was shut out as sophomore left-hander Sam Ryan of Saint Anselm College shut down the Eagle offense, sending them to their eighth straight loss to begin the year, 10-0, on Saturday afternoon in Viera, Florida at the Space Coast Games.
THE BASICS
Post University 0, Saint Anselm College 10
Post University (0-8)
Saint Anselm College (7-3)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Graduate right-hander
Katelyn Lipsky suffered her fourth loss of the season on the mound for Post in what was one of her best outings on the young season. Lipsky would manufacture eight strikeouts to just three walks and while she would be on the hook for all 10 runs that the Hawks scored, six of those would be unearned due to errors in the field by the Eagle defense. Committing two more errors in their second game of the day, Post has a total of 19 errors so far this season, leading to 20 unearned runs and a .901 fielding percentage as a team.
Junior outfielder Rose Reitmeyer gave the Hawks an early 1-0 lead on her RBI single before the bats went cold until the fourth inning as Ryan stifled Post to keep them scoreless in the affair. In her fifth win of the season for Saint Anselm, the sophomore allowed just two hits in seven innings with three strikeouts and one walk with one of those hits being to sophomore utility player
Allysa Calabrese, who extended her on-base streak to seven straight games in the loss.
Senior first baseman Sam Wiberg made it a two-run game in the fourth with two outs on her RBI base knock before senior third baseman
Nyla Sapia's error at third allowed the inning to continue, resulting in a run on that error as well as two more via an RBI single from senior catcher Alyssa Wironen and walk issued to junior outfielder Lily Mason, making it a 5-0 game.
Saint Anselm continued to chip across runs over the course of the next three innings to the tune of four total runs, giving them their 10-0 lead and shutout win behind Ryan's gem. As a team, Post has been held to two hits or less now in four games as well as shut out four times in eight games while the pitching has a combined earned run average of 10.89 in the early part of the season.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Allysa Calabrese continues to stay hot at the plate, making it seven consecutive games in which she has reached base safely, adding a single this afternoon -- Calabrese has recorded a hit in six of the first eight games so far this season
- Post University has now been shut out in four games so far this season while allowing 10-plus runs in five of eight games to start the year
- Alyssa Wironen led Saint Anselm College with a 2-for-4 game in which she had three RBIs, which all came via singles
- Today's matchup between Post University and Saint Anselm College was the first meeting since the 2016 season, and the win for the Hawks now ties the all-time series up at three games each
WHO'S NEXT
Continuing their Florida trip on Sunday, Post University will face a pair of familiar foes in Franklin Pierce University at 2:30 PM before turning around to play Southern Connecticut State University again at 4:45 PM.
