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Seniors Lead ESU Softball to Doubleheader Sweep over Shippensburg

4/28/2018 12:00:00 AM

Box Score (Game 1)  |  Box Score (Game 2)  |  Photo Gallery (Game 1)  |  Photo Gallery (Senior Day/Game 2)

EAST STROUDSBURG – Seniors Madison Oren, Heather Visco and Mary Wallick wrapped up their East Stroudsburg University careers in style on Saturday, combining for 10 hits, five RBIs and five stolen bases to lead the Warriors to a doubleheader sweep over Shippensburg at Zimbar Field.

Wallick (2 for 4, SB) and Visco (2 for 4, RBI, SB) combined for four hits in a 4-3 victory in Game 1, while Oren (4 for 4, 2 2B, 4 RBI, 2 SB) and Visco (2 for 4, SB) led the way during a 10-5 win in the nightcap.

Oren registered the first four-hit game of her collegiate career, raising her season average to a career-best .322 to close out the spring. Freshman Kaitlyn Caleen added three hits and three RBIs in Game 2, finishing a homer shy of the cycle.

ESU (14-26, 6-10 PSAC) completes its first doubleheader sweep over Shippensburg (21-17, 8-8 PSAC) since 2015, and it is the first sweep at home in the series for the Warriors since 1996.

Trailing 2-1 through four innings, ESU scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth in Game 1 to move in front for good. Freshman Sofia Cecchin led off the frame with a single, and she crossed the plate on a fielding error to tie the score. A safety squeeze by freshman Ashley Spencer and an RBI single by junior Madison Vicendese gave the Warriors their first lead of the afternoon.

Shippensburg pulled a run closer on a sacrifice fly in the sixth, but junior RHP Angelica Dark closed out the inning without any further damage. She then worked around a two-out walk in the seventh to earn her seventh victory of the season. Dark allowed six hits and one walk over seven innings in the circle.

Vicendese went 2 for 3 at the plate in the opener, registering her 11th multi-hit game of the season.

The Warriors quickly jumped ahead in Game 2, scoring three runs in the first and five more in the second to grab an early 8-0 advantage. Oren had three RBIs on a pair of doubles in those first two frames, while Caleen drove in three on a double and a triple.

The visitors closed the margin down to 8-5 over the next two innings, but RBIs by Vicendese and Oren gave ESU two key insurance runs in the bottom half of the sixth. Freshman RHP Mickayla Grow then worked around two hits in the seventh to secure the victory.

Grow went the distance in the circle, allowing five runs (one earned) on 14 hits. The win was her third of the season.

Sophomore Kaylee Hazewski (2 for 3, BB, 2 SB) and Vicendese (1 for 2, 2 BB, RBI) each reached base three times for the Warriors. Hazewski's two steals upped her season total to 23, ranking her third in the PSAC. She is second in team history with 48 stolen bases through her first two seasons, leaving her 28 back of the ESU record held by Jen Veronesi (2004-07).

Wallick closes her senior season ranked first on the team in batting average (.358), doubles (14) and multi-hit games (16). She is ranked first in program history in doubles (42), second in extra-base hits (59), third in hits (170) and sixth in steals (33).

Visco hit .469 with six stolen bases over the season's final nine games, raising her senior year average to .308. She leaves ESU ranked fifth in steals (35), tied for sixth in homers (11) and ninth in RBIs (70).

The Warriors' six PSAC victories are the program's most since 2015. 
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