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Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. – The Southern New Hampshire University softball team closed out its 12-game Florida road trip with a sweep of Lewis University and Saginaw Valley State University at the National Training Center Softball Complex on Saturday. The Penmen took game one over the Flyers by a score of 3-2 before earning their 10th win of the season in a 2-1 triumph over the Cardinals.
Against Lewis, senior Ali Maloof (Norwood, Mass.) went 3-for-3 with a home run and struck out 10 Flyer hitters in her sixth complete game of the season. Maloof moved to 6-0 in 2015 after scattering four hits and surrendering two unearned runs without walking a batter in the victory.
The game remained scoreless into the top of the third before Southern New Hampshire pushed across three runs. Freshman Brittany Perdigao (Stoughton, Mass.) worked a one-out walk before junior Mo Hannan (Scarborough, Maine) doubled to center to put runners on second and third. After Perdigao scored on a wild pitch, Maloof blasted a two-run shot to put the Penmen ahead, 3-0.
Neither team was able to generate any more offense until the bottom of the sixth, when Lewis struck for a pair of runs to trim the Southern New Hampshire lead to one. Kaylee Prieto started the rally with a one-out single before Carly Jaworski sent a base hit into right. Two batters later, Sarah DeMasi reached on a Penmen miscue that also allowed both runners to cross the plate and make it 3-2.
After escaping the sixth with no further damage, Maloof sat down the Flyers in order in the seventh to secure the win.
Hannan was 2-for-4 with a run scored in the first game, while Perdigao also reached twice with a double and a walk.
In the second half of Saturday's twinbill, sophomore Nicole Gubellini (Salem, N.H.) fired a complete game four-hitter to pick up her fourth win of the season. Gubellini punched out seven and allowed just one unearned run on four hits to remain unbeaten in the circle.
Gubellini and Saginaw Valley State hurler Annie Hansen posted matching zeros through the first four innings before the Penmen tacked on a pair of runs in the fifth. Perdigao reached on a fielder's choice before Hannan punched a single through the middle to make it first and second with one away. Perdigao came around to score when a ball off the bat of Maloof was mishandled by the Cardinals' defense, and Hannan scored on junior Katie Caruso's (Newton, Mass.) RBI ground out.
The 2-0 lead held, as Gubellini held Saginaw Valley State hitless through the final three innings and surrendered an unearned run in the seventh to propel Southern New Hampshire to its 10th win of the season.
Sophomore Erin McHugh (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) notched the first multi-hit game of her career on Saturday, as she finished game two with a pair of singles in three trips to the plate. Hannan was on base twice for the Penmen against the Cardinals as well, as she was 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored.
Southern New Hampshire will remain idle until March 14 when it travels to the University of New Haven to take on the Chargers and Georgian Court University in a doubleheader set to begin at 10 a.m.
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