When and Where: April 22, 2021, Hooksett, N.H. (SNHU Softball Field)
Game 1 Score: SNHU 6, Stonehill 3
Game 2 Score: Stonehill 11, SNHU 2-- 6 innings
Records: SNHU 8-8 (8-8 NE10),  Stonehill 5-15 (4-12 NE10)

(Hooksett, N.H.) - Senior Olivia Strasser (Rutland, Mass.) went the distance and junior Emily Carbonneau (Lowell, Mass.) homered to give SNHU a 6-3 win over Stonehill in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday. The Skyhawks won the nightcap 11-2 to earn a split at the SNHU Softball Field.

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 1

• The Penmen struck for a pair of first inning runs with three consecutive hits to start the game.  Freshman Alyssa Dimauro (Chester, N.H.) doubled and scored on a single by senior Chloe Griffin (Scarborough, Maine) to make it 1-0.  Freshman Shannon Gifford (Goffstown, N.H.) doubled Griffin in for another run.
• SNHU added two more runs in the second inning.  Singles by freshman Bella Dickinson (Scarborough, Maine) and sophomore Bryn Garczynski (Norwood, Mass.) and a walk to Dimauro loaded the bases.  One run scored on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly by Griffin made it 4-0.
• Carbonneau homered to lead off the sixth inning, and the Penmen added another run by putting together a double by Dickinson and a single by Griffin.
• Strasser (2-5) allowed three runs in the top of the seventh inning, all unearned after a pair of errors by the Penmen and a passed ball.  She walked one batter and struck out five.

KEY MOMENTS - GAME 2

• Stonehill opened an 8-0 lead with three runs in the first, four in the second, and another in the third.  Marissa Dwyer homered in the second inning chasing Griffin, who started in the circle.
• SNHU had chances, coming up with eight hits in the first four innings, but only produced two runs.  A sacrifice fly by senior Emily Critch (Halifax, Mass.) plated a run in the third inning.
• In the fourth, senior Jackie Gavin (East Bridgewater, Mass.) and Dickinson singled.  A run scored on a fielders choice by Dimauro.  
• Reliever Julia Perrone worked 2.2 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.  
• Skyhawk outfielder Genna Hartman went four-for-four with three RBI, part of a 15-hit attack.

NOTES

• SNHU and Stonehill split the four games the teams played this season.
• The second game loss was the first for Chloe Griffin (6-2) since dropping her first start of the season, March 25.
• Carbonneau's homer was her first of the season.  She hit 10 her first season with the Penmen in 2019, leading the Northeast-10 Conference.  
• Carbonneau was shaken up, and left the second game of the doubleheader after a collision with a Stonehill runner while trying to field a grounder at first base.  

UP NEXT

• SNHU is scheduled to play doubleheaders at Bentley University on Saturday and Sunday with games starting each day at Noon.

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