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Haley DiBona
Michael Vesci
5
Post POST 0-5
6
Winner Mercy MERCY 1-2
Post POST
0-5
5
Final
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Mercy MERCY
1-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Post POST 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 5 1
Mercy MERCY 1 0 1 3 1 0 X 6 9 2

W: Juliana Abbene (1-0) L: Lipsky, Katelyn (0-3)

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Winner Southern Conn. St. SOUTHERN 3-2
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Post POST 0-6
Winner
Southern Conn. St. SOUTHERN
3-2
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Final
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Post POST
0-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Southern Conn. St. SOUTHERN 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 6 8 0
Post POST 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

W: Kate Nickerson (1-0) L: Calabrese, Allysa (0-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Michael Vesci, Director of Athletic Communications

DiBona Hits First Collegiate Home Run, Softball Swept by Mercy and Southern Connecticut

VIERA, Fla. – Freshman infielder Haley DiBona hit her first collegiate home run on Saturday afternoon against Mercy University as Post University Softball dropped their second pair of games on the Spring Break trip to Viera, Florida, 6-5 to the Mavericks, and getting one-hit by Southern Connecticut State University, 6-0, in the nightcap.

THE BASICS

Post University 5, Mercy University 6

Post University 0, Southern Connecticut State University 6

Post University (0-6)

Mercy University (1-3)

Southern Connecticut State University (3-3)

HOW IT HAPPENED

Game 1: Post University 5, Mercy University 6
Graduate right-hander Katelyn Lipsky took the loss on the mound for the Eagles to start the day, going all six innings but allowing six runs (five earned) on nine hits with six strikeouts and a walk. Lipsky is now 0-3 this season in three starts, allowing at least four runs in each of her outings. Mercy's offense tacked on a first-inning run via an error at third by DiBona, which was the start of their 2-0 lead into the fourth when junior Averi Miller drove in a run with her RBI single.

Post would take its first lead of the season in the fourth inning against senior Mackayla Secoda, tagging her for five runs in the fourth before she would be chased from the game after not recording a single out in the frame. A leadoff walk issued to sophomore infielder Alexandra Bisceglia gave way to back-to-back hits for the Eagles that loaded up the bases for graduate third baseman Nyla Sapia's bases-clearing double to put Post ahead by one, 3-2.

Adding onto that lead was DiBona just a batter later with her first collegiate home run, a two-run shot, that extended the advantage to three runs, 5-2. Freshman Juliana Abbene, who came in to relieve Secoda, would retire the next three hitters as part of her dominant four innings in which she allowed no runs on one hit with seven strikeouts and two walks to pick up her first win of the season.

Mercy would respond with four unanswered runs between the fourth and fifth innings, immediately tying the game up at five in the bottom of the fourth with an RBI walk for junior Allison Murphy and freshman Emma Jackson's two-run double. Junior Julianna Coluccio would deliver the go-ahead home run, a solo shot in the fifth, that propelled Mercy to its first win of the season, 6-5. 

Game 2: Post University 0, Southern Connecticut State University 6
For Post, the bats would go quiet in game two as they were one-hit as the Owls reclaimed the all-time series lead, 9-8, with the 6-0 shutout victory. Southern Connecticut has now won seven of the last eight matchups against the Eagles since the 2023 season, as sophomore right-hander Kate Nickerson and junior right-hander Olivia Young combined for the seven-inning one-hitter, allowing only a fourth-inning single to freshman infielder Bailey Ruel. 

Nickerson dealt six shutout, one-hit innings in which she struck out four batters and allowed just one walk with two outs in the sixth to sophomore outfielder Leah Marrero. Young would throw a 1-2-3 seventh inning to secure the victory for the Owls, throwing just seven pitches and getting Post to swing at the first pitch in each of the last two at-bats they had. 

Junior right-hander Allysa Calabrese allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits with two walks and a hit batter, taking the loss on the mound, before Ruel pitched the last three innings of the affair, allowing one run on three hits and hitting two batters. 

BY THE NUMBERS
  • Angelica Tompkins had her five-game on-base streak come to a close in the one-hitter against Southern Connecticut State University after going 0-for-2
  • Haley DiBona tallied her first collegiate home run, a two-run shot in the fourth inning for Post University against Mercy University, after getting her first collegiate hit the day before
  • In six games this season, Post University has now been outscored 13-4 in the fifth inning of games, allowing five runs twice in that frame
  • Southern Connecticut State University has won seven of the last eight matchups against Post University, taking the series lead, 9-8

WHO'S NEXT
Post University takes on Northern State University and Hillsdale College this afternoon in Florida at 1:30 PM and 3:45 PM, respectively. The Eagles last played the Wolves in 2016, falling 7-0, while dropping their lone game against the Chargers, 5-2, in 2020.
 
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