When and Where: March 6, 2020 – Auburndale, Fla. (Auburndale Softball Complex)
Game 1 Score: Southern New Hampshire University 4, Saint Thomas Aquinas 3 (8 inn.)
Game 2 Score: Saginaw Valley State 8, Southern New Hampshire University 0 (5 inn.)
Records: SNHU 1-1, Saint Thomas Aquinas (0-1), Saginaw Valley (14-2)

The SNHU softball team split a pair of games in Florida on Friday, defeating Saint Thomas Aquinas and falling to Saginaw State.

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 1

• Senior Maddy Barone (Halifax, Mass.) allowed one earned run over 7.1 innings to pick up the win in game one.  She struck out five, allowing only four hits.
• Junior Shay Sauvageau (Griswold, Conn.) doubled in a pair of runs in the third inning as the Penmen built a 3-0 lead over Saint Thomas Aquinas.
• The Spartans rallied to tie with two unearned runs in the sixth inning, and another in the seventh.
• In the last of the eighth inning, Sauvageau bunted sophomore Emily Carbonneau (Lowell, Mass.), the extra runner, to third.
• Junior Jackie Gavin (East Bridgewater, Mass.) drove in the winning run with a fielders choice.

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 2

• The Penmen gave up five runs in the first inning, and could not recover in the 8-0 loss to Saginaw Valley.
• The only hit for SNHU came on a single by Carbonneau in the top of the second inning, and she was stranded at third after a couple of walks.
• Sarah Gersch homered twice for the Cardinals.  She led off the bottom of the first with a home run, and added another, leading off the fourth inning.

NOTES

• The games were the first for SNHU this season.   They will play doubleheaders on eight of the ten days they will be in Florida through Sunday, March 15.

UP NEXT

• The Penmen are back in action Saturday, March 7 when they face Wayne State (Mich.) at 9:00 a.m. and Bridgeport at 1:30 p.m.

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