CANTON, NY -- The St. Lawrence University softball team's six game winning streak came to an end on Sunday afternoon at the hands of Liberty League powerhouse Union College, which improved to 27-4 (6-0) with 9-1 and 10-3 wins against the Saints (9-19, 2-6) Sunday.
The Dutchwomen, who have now won 10 straight games, used 10 hits against rookie pitcher Meg Goodemote to pick up the victory in five innings. The visitors got on the board in the first inning of game one on an RBI single by Megan Kaknis (New Windsor, NY) and a two-out RBI double by Lindsay Larabee (Westfield, MA) for a 3-0 advantage.
St. Lawrence picked up a run in the bottom half of the inning off of Union's Ginny Sack (Burnt Hills, NY) thanks in part to a leadoff double by sophomore Molly Swan. Junior Lilah Brown singled home Swan after a sac bunt by rookie Melissa Rogers to cut the deficit to two at 3-1.
However, Sack would allow only one more hit the rest of the way, recording two strikeouts and two walks in 5.0 innings to improve to 14-3 on the season. She was given plenty of offense, as the Liberty League's top-hitting team picked up two runs in the third and four in the fourth for a 9-1 cushion. Kaknis delivered a solo homerun in the third, while Ashley Kovack (Ridgefield, CT) also had an RBI in the inning.
Union closed out game one's scoring with four runs on three hits and two St. Lawrence errors, with Kaknis adding an RBI single and Larabee hitting a double with the bases loaded to plate three more runs off of Goodemote, who fell to 5-8 on the season with the loss.
The opening half of game two of the doubleheader saw St. Lawrence jump out to a 3-0 lead behind seven hits off of Union's Tiffany Ippoliti (Schuylerville, NY) while rookie Rachel Duffany kept the Dutchwomen quiet at the plate. The Scarlet and Brown did their damage in the bottom of the third when rookie Yessenia Chimelis hammed a double to left field wall that scored two for a 2-0 lead. The Saints then capitalized on an error by Union's first baseman to take a 3-0 edge.
Union would climb back into the game in the top of the fourth with two runs to bring the score to 3-2. It was the sixth inning, though, that would do in Duffany and the Saints' chances as the visitors scored five runs on four hits and three errors. Kaknis drove in two runs with a triple, while Kovack singled in another run and two more tallies came across on errors.
The Dutchwomen then polished off an impressive come-from-behind win with three runs in the top of the seventh inning to give Sack, who relieved Ippoliti in the fifth inning, her 15 th win of the season while Duffany dropped to 4-11. One of the differences in the contest proved to be runners left on base, as the Saints left nine on the base-paths to Union's three.
The Dutchwomen host Oswego Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Alexander Field, and close out Liberty League and regular season play against Rochester Saturday at home at 2 p.m. (a makeup of an earlier postponement).
Game 1 box score
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Game 2 box score
