Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 When and Where: March 31, 2025  -  Worcester, Mass. (Normand R. Marois '57 Field)
Game 1:  Southern New Hampshire University 5, Assumption University 0
Game 2:  Assumption University 2, Southern New Hampshire University 1
Records: SNHU 14-8 (1-1 NE10), Assumption 8-16 (1-1 NE10)

Senior Mackenzie Bruggeman (Trumbull, Conn.) collected four hits and drove in a team-high three runs as Southern New Hampshire University softball opened the Northeast-10 Conference with a doubleheader split Monday afternoon at Assumption University.  Senior Amelia Freitas (Plymouth, Mass.) tossed a shutout in a 5-0 win in the first game and the Greyhounds took the night cap 2-1.

TOP PERFORMERS

• Bruggeman - 4-for-7, 2B, 3 RBI
• Senior Jordyn Resetar (Hanover, Pa.) - 2-for-7, R, 2B
• Freshman Alyssa Abbott (Hudson, N.H.) - 2-for-5, RBI, HBP
• Freitas - Win Game 1  - 7.0 IP - 3 H - 0 ER - 0 BB - 4 K
• Sophomore Julianna Colbert (Burrillville, R.I.) - Loss Game 2 - 6.1 IP - 5 H - 2 ER - 2 BB - 4 K

GAME 1:  SNHU 5, Assumption 0

• The Penmen, playing for the first time in nine days after wet weather and conditions forced schedule changes, took a 1-0 lead in the first.
• Junior Peyton Feldman (Foxboro, Mass.) walked and Bruggeman doubled her home.
• In the third, Resetar doubled, Feldman singled and Bruggemen delivered a two-run single to make it 3-0.
• The Penmen scored a pair of runs in the fifth with an RBI single by sophomore Charlotte Donovan (Biddeford, Maine) and a double by junior Abby Lineman (Doylestown, Pa.).
• Freitas allowed only three hits.

GAME 2:  Assumption 2, SNHU 1

• The Penmen rallied with two outs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game, only to fall in the bottom of the inning.
• Assumption took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Molly Green.
• In the seventh, sophomore Grace Jenkins (Groton, Conn.) doubled to left field, and then scored on a single by Abbott to make it 1-1.
• A walk, a sacrifice bunt, and a triple won it for the Greyhounds.  Pinch-hitter Grace Heim delivered the game-winning hit.

NOTES

• Freitas improves to 4-0 over her last five starts, pitching her third shutout of the season.  
• Bruggeman's 29 hits and .372 average are tops on the team.
• SNHU's team batting average at .309 is second among NE10 teams - Southern Connecticut is first at .316.
• Assumption had won six games in a row before the SNHU win in the opener.  
• The Greyhounds lead the all-time series 46-38 and have won three of the last four games.
• The teams have also scheduled a non-conference doubleheader at the SNHU Softball Field on April 22 (3 p.m.)

WHAT'S NEXT

• The Penmen will make-up a doubleheader on Wednesday (April 2) at 2:30 p.m. at Bentley University
• The first home games of the season are scheduled for Friday (April 4) at 3:00 p.m. against Saint Michael's College.

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