Records Fall in Mount Senior Day Sweep

NEWBURGH – The Mount Saint Mary College Softball team posted the most wins in a season on record with its 24th of the year and senior Michelle Surdan became the program’s RBI leader with her first of two RBI in game one of a sweep of Farmingdale State. The Knights blanked the Rams 7-0 in Saturday’s opener and outlasted the Rams 10-6 to complete the sweep.

Game 1: Mount Saint Mary 7 – Farmingdale State 0

Junior Cindy Connoly held the visitors to just one hit in Saturday’s first game as she picked up her 10th win of the season. She moved to 10-7 on the year, posting her second shutout of the season and her team leading 17th complete game. She reached double figures in strikeouts for the sixth time this season, fanning 11 Rams.

The Knights got all the scoring they would need in the third inning with two tallies and added four runs in the fourth to open a 6-0 lead. Surdan broke the RBI record with a single up the middle that delivered Shannon Sommer with the eventual game winning run in the third. Kathryn Eiler gave the Mount a 2-0 lead later in the inning with a sacrifice fly.

In the big fourth inning, Surdan drove in her second run of the game with a sacrifice fly with Sommer driving in a run with an infield single. Connoly helper her own cause with a two-run double that chased home Amanda Almodovar and Sommer.

Mount Saint Mary closed out the scoring in the game with Connoly’s second run scoring double of the game. She drove in Surdan with a shot up the right center field gap with two outs in the inning.

Sommer and Connoly each finished the opener with three hits, with Connoly doubling
twice and driving in three runs. Sommer scored twice and drove a run in and Almodovar crossed with a pair of runs scored.

Surdan moved into first place on the RBI list with her 86th and 87th of her career and rounded out the game one win 1-for-1 with a run scored.

Game 2: Mount Saint Mary 10 – Farmingdale State 6

The Knights offense kept rolling in game two, pounding out 10 hits and taking advantage of five Farmingdale State miscues. The Mount scored in its first four at-bats, including a single run in the first, two in the second, five in the third and two more in the fourth.

Eiler drove in Almodovar with a single in the second to open the scoring and Surdan and Connoly added RBI with a walk and hit by pitch, respectively, in the second frame.

Sommer singled home a run in the five run third with a single and advanced to third and forced to other runs home following a miscue in left field. She added a two-run single in the fourth to close out the Mount’s scoring in the game.

Sommer picked up three more hits in the game two win, driving in three runs and scoring twice. Almodovar, Eiler and Taylor Canto each posted a pair of hits, with Almodovar, Canto and Bridget Bennett each scoring two runs.

Bennett picked up her team leading 11th win in the circle, working 7.0 innings in the win. She surrendered three earned runs on 10 hits and struck out six for the Knights in moving to 11-4 on the season.

Saturday’s sweep closes the regular season for the Mount with a 24-12 overall record and a 17-1 mark against conference rivals.