Pirates leave the yard five times on Sunday, hit nine homers in the series.
Faith Laudano homered twice on Sunday, the first multi-home run game of her career.
April 12, 2015
OMAHA, NEB. - The Seton Hall University softball team homered five times as the Pirates routed Creighton University, 12-1, in six innings to pick up a BIG EAST series win on Sunday afternoon in Omaha, Neb.
The five long balls continued what had been the theme of the weekend. After four home runs during Saturday's doubleheader allowed Seton Hall to set a new single-season record of 42, the Pirates added five more to the tally to finish with nine in the series and increase the season total to a BIG EAST leading 47.
Three players combined to send five balls over the fence in the series finale. BIG EAST leader Alexis Walkden (Cibolo, Texas) smashed her 15th of the season, which places her in a tie for second at Seton Hall in a single season and leaves her three shy of matching SHU's single-season mark.
Senior Danielle DeStaso (Congers, N.Y.) and junior Faith Laudano (Islip, N.Y.) each homered twice, making it a remarkable nine multi-home runs games this season for Seton Hall, this after the Pirates entered 2015 with just 13 in program history.
DeStaso increased her season tally to seven, and the Pirates' second all-time home run hitter now has 30 for her career. Laudano has left the ballpark four times this season and five in her career.
Seton Hall's first two home runs of the game were leadoff solo shots in the third and fourth innings. The Pirates trailed 1-0 through two, but Laudano worked a full count in the top of the third before blasting a solo shot out to center.
DeStaso would lead off the fourth, and the result was the same as the prior inning, as she unloaded on a line drive shot out to left.
The fifth inning would make it three-straight frames with a home run, and this time it was Walkden with the big at-bat. Back-to-back singles from Sara Foster (Long Beach, Calif.) and Yasmin Harrell (Cheektowaga, N.Y.) put two on with one out. Walkden launched a high fly ball into the air toward left and it carried all the way out to extend the SHU lead to 6-1.
Harrell finished the game batting 3-for-3 with two runs scored, extending her season-long hitting streak to 10-straight games. Foster reached base during all three at-bats, going 2-for-2 with a walk, scoring three times.
The Seton Hall offense was really rolling by the sixth when the Pirates scored six runs on five hits and added two more home runs. With one out, Laudano struck again, smacking her second solo shot of the game out to left field. Later in the frame, two more runs had scored and there were two on for DeStaso, and she responded with a monster three-run shot to center field, making it 12-1.
In addition to her pair of home runs, DeStaso also picked up the win on the mound. She relieved starter Lauren Fischer (Robbinsville, N.J.) in the top of the third and threw a dominant four innings, giving up just one hit with a pair of strikeouts to improve to 8-9 on the year.
Seton Hall returns to action for a non-conference game against Rutgers University on Tuesday, April 14, at Mike Sheppard, Sr. Field at 4 p.m. That is the start of an eight-game home stand for The Hall, which will host St. John's University in a three-game BIG EAST series next Saturday-Sunday, April 18-19.
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Faith Laudano homered twice on Sunday, the first multi-home run game of her career.
April 12, 2015
OMAHA, NEB. - The Seton Hall University softball team homered five times as the Pirates routed Creighton University, 12-1, in six innings to pick up a BIG EAST series win on Sunday afternoon in Omaha, Neb.
The five long balls continued what had been the theme of the weekend. After four home runs during Saturday's doubleheader allowed Seton Hall to set a new single-season record of 42, the Pirates added five more to the tally to finish with nine in the series and increase the season total to a BIG EAST leading 47.
Three players combined to send five balls over the fence in the series finale. BIG EAST leader Alexis Walkden (Cibolo, Texas) smashed her 15th of the season, which places her in a tie for second at Seton Hall in a single season and leaves her three shy of matching SHU's single-season mark.
Senior Danielle DeStaso (Congers, N.Y.) and junior Faith Laudano (Islip, N.Y.) each homered twice, making it a remarkable nine multi-home runs games this season for Seton Hall, this after the Pirates entered 2015 with just 13 in program history.
DeStaso increased her season tally to seven, and the Pirates' second all-time home run hitter now has 30 for her career. Laudano has left the ballpark four times this season and five in her career.
Seton Hall's first two home runs of the game were leadoff solo shots in the third and fourth innings. The Pirates trailed 1-0 through two, but Laudano worked a full count in the top of the third before blasting a solo shot out to center.
DeStaso would lead off the fourth, and the result was the same as the prior inning, as she unloaded on a line drive shot out to left.
The fifth inning would make it three-straight frames with a home run, and this time it was Walkden with the big at-bat. Back-to-back singles from Sara Foster (Long Beach, Calif.) and Yasmin Harrell (Cheektowaga, N.Y.) put two on with one out. Walkden launched a high fly ball into the air toward left and it carried all the way out to extend the SHU lead to 6-1.
Harrell finished the game batting 3-for-3 with two runs scored, extending her season-long hitting streak to 10-straight games. Foster reached base during all three at-bats, going 2-for-2 with a walk, scoring three times.
The Seton Hall offense was really rolling by the sixth when the Pirates scored six runs on five hits and added two more home runs. With one out, Laudano struck again, smacking her second solo shot of the game out to left field. Later in the frame, two more runs had scored and there were two on for DeStaso, and she responded with a monster three-run shot to center field, making it 12-1.
In addition to her pair of home runs, DeStaso also picked up the win on the mound. She relieved starter Lauren Fischer (Robbinsville, N.J.) in the top of the third and threw a dominant four innings, giving up just one hit with a pair of strikeouts to improve to 8-9 on the year.
Seton Hall returns to action for a non-conference game against Rutgers University on Tuesday, April 14, at Mike Sheppard, Sr. Field at 4 p.m. That is the start of an eight-game home stand for The Hall, which will host St. John's University in a three-game BIG EAST series next Saturday-Sunday, April 18-19.
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