LOCATION: UAlbany Field - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 17-16, 7-5 America East | Bryant 13-25, 3-10 America East
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Dane defense and offense worked together to play two five-inning shutout victories in a doubleheader against Bryant, Saturday.
 
GAME ONE
 
SCORE: UAlbany 9, Bryant 0 (5 innings)
 
KEY STATS

• Seniors Morgan Petty and Maddi Petrella led the team with three RBI each.
• In two at-bats, Petrella hit two home runs. Petty added a home run to the Great Danes' total.
• Five different Great Danes earned at least one hit. In addition to Petrella and Petty's homers, graduate student Chloe Lewis, senior Wendi Hammond, and junior Jordan Nastos each added a single.
• Hammond started in the circle and pitched all five innings for the complete-game shutout. Striking out nine batters, she notched a season-high in strikeouts.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Wendi Hammond started the game with three strikeouts in the first inning.
• After Morgan Petty walked, Maddi Petrella knocked her first home run over the right-field fence for two RBI and a 2-0 lead.
• Hammond added a fourth strikeout in the top of the second.
• In the bottom of the second, Hammond and Chloe Lewis tallied two-straight singles to put another run on the board.
• Jordan Nastos sent the ball into center field for another RBI.
• Two-straight home runs from Petty and Petrella made it an 8-0 game before the end of the second.
• With two strikeouts in the top of the third, Hammond struck out at least one batter as the Great Dane defense went three up, three down for the third-straight inning.
• Freshman Kasey Conn scored what proved to be the final run of the game in the bottom of the third.
• Bryant tallied its lone hit of the contest in the fourth inning.
• Hammond and the UAlbany defense finished the game with three-straight outs, including two strikeouts, in the fifth inning.

 
GAME TWO
 
SCORE: UAlbany 8, Bryant 0 (5 innings)
 
KEY STATS

• Morgan Petty led the Great Danes with five RBI in two at-bats.
• Sophomore Sierra Fretz followed with two RBI.
• Four of UAlbany's seven hits were multi-base hits - Jordan Nastos and freshman Kasey Conn notched a double while Petty and Fretz launched the ball over the fence for a home run each.
• Fretz led from the box with two hits in three at-bats.
• Redshirt-sophomore Kate Powers started in the circle and pitched for the complete-game shutout while adding four strikeouts.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Bryant opened the game with a single but the baserunner was left on second.
• Jordan Nastos grabbed a leadoff double and Caitlyn Mitros followed with a bunt.
• Morgan Petty earned her first RBI as she drove Nastos home with a groundout.
• With three-straight outs in the top of the second, Kate Powers struck out her first batter of the contest.
• Sierra Fretz opened the second inning with a single and soon the bases were loaded with Chloe Lewis, freshman Deanna Grahek, and Fretz.
• Mitros and Petty added an RBI each as they batted in Fretz and Grahek, respectively.
• The Great Dane defense went three up, three down in both the third and fourth innings.
• Kasey Conn slammed the ball deep into right-center field to get on base with a double before Nastos took first base from four balls.
• Petty knocked a home run over right field to give UAlbany a 6-0 lead before the end of the fourth inning.
• The Bulldogs added their second and final hit in the fifth inning.
• After a single from pinch-hitter senior Schuyler Ossman, Fretz hit a walk-off home run into left-center to give the Great Danes their second-straight five-inning win, 8-0.

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will close out the three-game series against Bryant on Sunday (April 23).
 
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