DAYTON, Ohio (March 12, 2025) – The Stonehill College softball team fell on the road at Dayton University, 8-3, at the UD Softball Stadium on in a first-ever matchup with the Flyers on Wednesday.
Dayton 8 (9-7, 0-0 A10), Stonehill 3 (5-6, 0-0 NEC)
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Flyers put up five runs on four hits, a walk, and a pair of errors by the Skyhawks as Dayton's
Katelin Goodwin capped off the first inning with a two-run double to left center.
The bats went quiet on both sides over the next three innings with sophomore
Alexa Hospodar (Old Bethpage, N.Y.) allowing just one hit during that stretch. Dayton starter
Haven Dwyer allowed one hit and one walk with three strikeouts in four innings of work.
Once Dwyer came out, the Skyhawks offense began to rally as sophomore
Piper Hofmann (Windermere, Fla.) capped off a string of back-to-back singles, driving in two runs to make the score 5-2.
Dayton tacked on two runs of its own in the bottom half of the fifth with one coming in on an error and the other coming in on a bases-loaded walk. Junior
Lauren Donovan (Marblehead, Mass.) escaped the bases-loaded jam, giving up just one run with the Flyers leading 7-2 after the fifth.
Junior
Isabella Therrien (Auburn, Mass.) drove in a run in the sixth but Dayton countered again with a run in the sixth as the Flyers led 8-3 heading into the seventh. Stonehill lined into a double play to end the game, dropping the first-ever meeting with Dayton, 8-3.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Hospodar falls to 2-2 on the year, going 4.2 innings, allowing five hits and three earned runs while striking out four.
- Hofmann went 2-3 at the plate with a double and two RBI as her batting average improves to .364 on the year, the second-best mark on the team. Her eight base hits are tied for the most on the squad.
- Freshman Taylor Schoonmaker (Averill Park, N.Y.) recorded her first career base hit in a pinch hit at bat in the sixth.
- Junior Natalie Bottiglieri (Massapequa, N.Y.) reached base twice with a base hit and her team-leading sixth drawn walk of the season.
UP NEXT
- Stonehill softball continues its 12-day, 14-game road trip tomorrow afternoon with a doubleheader at Ohio University beginning at 1 p.m.
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