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Box Score 2 DOYLESTOWN (PA) – Delaware Valley University freshman pitcher
Jamie Stefani hurled a three-hit shutout in the nightcap to give the Aggies a split of their non-conference doubleheader with visiting Cedar Crest College. The Falcons took the opener, 8-3, before Stefani and DelVal followed with a 3-0 triumph.
The split moved the Aggies' overall record to 9-8 on the season while Cedar Crest saw its mark go to 9-7.
Stefani improved to 6-3 on the season and lowered her earned run average to 1.55. She did not walk a single batter and fanned seven as only two Falcons reached scoring position in the contest.
Cedar Crest's April Daly matched Stefani through five innings, but the Aggies took advantage of a pair of errors to score all three of its run in the sixth. With one out,
Kelly Gruber reached base on an error and then moved to second on a ground out.
Maddy O'Donohue then drove a pitch over the left fielder's head for a double that easily scored Gruber. Stefani then helped her own cause with an RBI double to left. Stefani moved to third on a single by
Kelsey Stoneberg and then scored on the Falcons' second error of the stanza.
Stefani finished 2-for-3 at the plate while O'Donohue and Stoneberg were each 1-for-3. Daly took the loss for Cedar Crest despite allowing no earned runs and just four hits in six innings of work.
The Falcons jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead in the opener as they recorded six hits and took advantage of an Aggie error in the first. They added two more in the second and one in the third for a 7-0 advantage.
DelVal came back with two runs off a Cedar Crest error in the third, but the Falcons got one back in the top of the fourth. The Aggies' remaining run came in the sixth on an RBI by
Mandi Workman.
Katelynn Reed had two hits for DelVal.
Kaytee Mattern took the loss on the mound.
Five different players had two hits apiece for the Falcons while Rachel Stump knocked in two run. Laura Rau gave up three unearned runs and just four hits, en route to the win.
DelVal returns to action on Thursday, March 31 when it hosts the College of Saint Elizabeth for a non-conference twinbill.
