GAME 1 BOX SCORE     GAME 2 BOX SCORE

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Kyla Puccini (North Dighton, MA) fired a complete game two-hitter for Southern New Hampshire University in the nightcap of a Northeast-10 softball doubleheader with Assumption College en route to a 4-0 win as the Penmen earned the split.  Assumption edged SNHU 3-2 in the opener.  Southern New Hampshire is now 17-21 overall and 13-9 in the NE-10, while the Greyhounds are 16-23 and 10-13 in the league.

Puccini worked four 1-2-3 innings in the win and only allowed a first inning single to Bernadette Fuentes and a third inning single to Erin Murphy.  She also worked her way out a one-out, bases loaded jam in the fifth set up by two walks and a hit by pitch, but Puccini would get Melissa Bowman to foul out to third and Fuentes to ground out to first.

All four Penmen runs came on a pair of home runs in the fourth.  Elena Anderson (Salem, WI) drove a ball just inside the foul pole down the left field line that also scored Ashley Bernstein (Stoughton, MA), who reached on a one-out double.  The next batter, Melissa Vitagliano (Bedford, NH) walked, then Melissa Pessotti (Burlington, MA) made it 4-0 with a shot to center.

Dana Rizzo took the loss for Assumption, allowing just four hits and striking out four but getting harmed by five walks.

Karissa Bettencourt (Norton, MA) gave SNHU a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game one when she led off with a single.  After advancing on a passed ball and wild pitch, Bettencourt would score on a sacrifice fly to right by Michelle Maranto (Hampstead, NH).  Assumption would score all three of its runs in the third as it delivered four straight singles with two outs, including a two-run single by Amy Gordon.

Maranto would halve the Greyhound lead in the bottom of the third with a solo home run.  SNHU's best chance to tie the game came in the sixth when the Penmen had Andrea Clausi (Kingston, NY) on third and Pessotti on second with two outs after a Pessotti double.  Assumption pitcher Chelsea Durso would induce a SNHU groundout to end the threat.

Bettencourt, Pessotti and Nicole Arpin (Cheshire, CT) would each finish with two hits in the opener for Southern New Hampshire, which outhit Assumption 9-7.  Kelsey Griffin (Scarborough, ME) took the loss, scattering seven hits while fanning five.

Southern New Hampshire returns to action Friday when it travels to Merrimack College for a 3:00 doubleheader.