STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (April 27, 2017) – Senior shortstop
Meghan McGuire recorded her 100
th career hit in the final non-conference games of her career, which ended in a pair of wins for the College of Staten Island on Thursday.
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By the Numbers: The Dolphins improved to 30-6 by winning 6-1 in Game 1 and scoring four runs in the bottom of the fifth to end Game 2 early by a score of 8-0. Drew falls to 9-22.
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Top Performers
• McGuire picked up hits in each game against CSI pitching to return home with a career milestone. No. 100 was a clean single up the middle with two outs and no one on in the fifth inning of Game 2. The senior captain now has exactly 100 hits in 139 career games.
• Sophomore first baseman
Bethany Budner doubled in Game 1 in drove in Drew's lone run of the day with an RBI groundout in the top of the seventh.
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Game 1 Highlights
• Senior pitcher
Emma Agostini got the start and allowed seven hits and four walks over her six innings with two strikeouts. Because of a Drew error in the Dolphins' four-run third, only two of the six runs were earned against Agostini.
• Budner and McGuire got hits in the fifth around a walk to junior
Lauren Mastropierro, but Drew stranded the bases loaded without getting a run.
• Agostini singled to lead off the seventh, advanced to third on a
Meghan Beyer sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch, then scored on Budner's groundout.
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Game 2 Highlights
• Staten Island continued rolling in the second game with three runs on three hits and an error in the bottom of the first.
• Sophomore
Cara O'Leary managed the team's first hit of the game in the third inning, a bunt single down the third base line.
• CSI knocked four hits in the third, but only pushed across one run.
• The Dolphins iced the game in the fifth with four runs on three hits to win the game 8-0.
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Up Next: The Rangers wrap up the 2017 regular season on Saturday, April 29 with a Landmark Conference doubleheader at Susquehanna University beginning at noon.
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