Career-Best Day From Hobbes Powers Pirates Past Stony Brook - Seton Hall University Athletics
In a power-packed mid-week showing, the Seton Hall softball team defeated Stony Brook off the back of a career-best day from Caroline Hobbes .
Softball vs Stony Brook on 3/18/2025 - Box Score - Seton Hall University Athletics
The official box score of Softball vs Stony Brook on 3/18/2025
STONY BROOK, N.Y. – In a power-packed mid-week showing, the Seton Hall softball team (13-10, 5-1 BIG EAST) defeated Stony Brook (5-14), 12-3 in 5 innings, at University Field in Stony Brook, New York.
How It Happened
This Long Island clash began in a fashion that is becoming very familiar to the Pirates over the last week. Just like against DePaul, Katey Brennan opened the game with a leadoff home run to give Seton Hall a 1-0 lead. Just like Brennan's prior leadoff home run, it was followed by a two-run Kelsey Carr home run that scored Taylor Hill. After three batters, Stony Brook went to the bullpen with the Pirates holding a 3-0 lead.
Unlike the last time, however, the opposition's offense had a response. Seton Hall's starter Rachael Schumann allowed four hits in the first inning, two of which scored a trio of runs to tie the game at 3-3 after one full inning.
After that point, however, the Pirates entered a flow state and began to dominate both at the plate and in the circle. In the second inning Olivia Gilbert drove in a pair of runs and Caroline Hobbes plated another, allowing Seton Hall to reclaim a 6-3 lead. From that point on, the Pirates never looked back.
In the circle, Schumann retired nine of the next ten batters, keeping Stony Brook stuck on three runs. At the plate, meanwhile, it became a career day for Hobbes. In the fifth inning, she drove a three-run home run to left field to put The Hall up 9-3. Brennan would plate another run before the innings end, but Hobbes continued to pour on the offense in the fifth. She singled into left field to drive in a career-best 5 RBI in a single game, making it a 11-3 Seton Hall lead and putting the game on run-rule watch. Jenna Blevins knocked in another run for the Pirates, giving Schumann one extra run of cushion for the bottom of the frame.
Despite getting the opening batter to fly out, things quickly before hairy for the freshman. She loaded the bases with two outs, yet the Pirates remained one out away from ending the game if they could maintain a lead of eight or more runs. Eventually, Schumann got the final batter to foul out to first, in turn securing the 12-3 victory for the Pirates.
News & Notes
- Seton Hall is now 13-10 all-time against Stony Brook.
- The Pirates have now won two straight against Stony Brook
- The Pirates have seven starters hitting above .310 on the season
- Hobbes recorded her first home run of the season and a career-high 5 RBI in a single game.
- She only had 18-career RBI coming into today's game.
- Schumann recorded her second career win and her third game of the season with at least four innings pitched.
- Carr recorded her 9th multi-RBI game of the season.
- Carr also collected het 8th home run and 25th RBI of the season.
- Gilbert recorded her 16th game of the season with an RBI.
- Brennan recorded her second home run of the season.
- She is also on a nine-game hitting streak.
The Pirates continue return to action tomorrow, March 19, when Rider travels to at Mike Sheppard Sr. Field for a doubleheader. First pitches are scheduled for 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
