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Redshirt senior Danielle Dungee hit her first two home runs of the season in Game 1 on Tuesday.

ESU Softball Hits Five Home Runs in Doubleheader Split at Bloomfield

4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM

Box Score (Game 1)  |  Box Score (Game 2)

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Redshirt senior Danielle Dungee hit two of East Stroudsburg University's four home runs in Game 1 of Tuesday's doubleheader at Bloomfield, as the Warriors took the opener 9-6 before falling 7-2 to the host Bears in the second contest.

Dungee's long balls were her first two of the season; she finished 3 for 4 at the plate in Game 1 with three RBIs. Senior Danielle Wissinger and junior Heather Visco also homered in the victory, with ESU's four, five and six hitters in the lineup combining to go 8 for 12 with six RBIs and six runs scored.

Junior Mary Wallick added a two-run shot in the sixth inning of Game 2, as the Warriors doubled their home run total for the year after entering the afternoon with five homers through their first 25 games.

Bloomfield (14-11) scored three runs in the first inning and four in the sixth to earn a split in the nightcap.

ESU (10-17) now has two days off before returning to PSAC East play with a 2:30 p.m. doubleheader at Shippensburg on Friday.

Game 1: ESU 9, Bloomfield 6

The Warrior offense tallied seven of its nine runs in the second, third and fourth innings to open up an early advantage.

Wissinger led off the second with her team-leading third homer of the season, and junior Madison Oren added an RBI single later in the frame to give the visitors a 2-0 lead.

The middle of the lineup accounted for all three ESU runs in the third inning. Wissinger began the rally with a two-out double, and Visco then blasted a 1-0 pitch out to left field to up the Warrior lead to 4-0. Dungee quickly added another run with a home run to straightaway center field.

ESU added two more two-out runs in the fourth, as Wallick brought home sophomore Kendra Barlotta and freshman Kaylee Hazewski with a single up the middle.

The Bears plated their first two runs in the bottom of the fourth. The Warriors restored their seven-run lead on Dungee's second long ball, a two-run shot to left field with two outs in the seventh. ESU was then forced to hold on in the bottom of the frame, as home side added four runs on a pair of homers with only one out.

Bloomfield followed the second of its homers, a three-run dinger by Mariah Frazier with one out, with a single to put the tying run on deck. Wallick, however, retired the next two batters to clinch her third victory of the season. She allowed eight hits over seven innings, and matched a season-high with six strikeouts while failing to walk a batter.

Oren registered a pair of steals to go along with her RBI single, while sophomore Samantha Pickar (1 for 1, two walks) reached base in all three plate appearances and also added a stolen base.

Wissinger recorded her team-leading fifth three-hit game of the season; Dungee's three-hit effort was her first of 2017.

Game 2: Bloomfield 7, ESU 2

The Bears scored their first three runs before making an out in the bottom of the first, and starter Kiersten Coho limited the Warriors to four hits in a complete-game victory. Coho also led Bloomfield offensively, finishing the contest with two hits and three RBIs from the cleanup spot.

All four of ESU's hits came from Hazewski (2 for 2, one walk) and Wallick (2 for 3, two RBIS), with Hazewski adding her team-leading 24th stolen base of the season in the third inning.

After Wallick's homer cut the margin to 3-2 in the top of the sixth, Bloomfield put the game out of reach with four insurance runs in the bottom of the frame to hand senior LHP Rachael Liguori (7-6) her sixth loss of the year.

Wallick upped her career-best hitting streak to 18 games with today's performance.
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