LOCATION: GW Softball Field - Washington, D.C.
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Danes split the first day in DC as they beat Manhattan and fell to the host, George Washington, Saturday.
 
GAME ONE
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 2-9, 0-0 America East | Manhattan 1-9, 0-0 MAAC
 
SCORE: UAlbany 3, Manhattan 2 (9 innings)
 
KEY STATS

• Senior Caitlyn Frederick and sophomore Taylor Quinn led with three hits each. 
• Quinn filled up the stat line with one double and one triple, an RBI, and a run scored.
• Redshirt-senior Victoria Vilarchao and freshman Charlotte Lomb each added an RBI.
• Sophomore Marky Kate Murray and freshman Kaitlyn Parisi hit a single each to make the team's total eight hits.
• Redshirt-senior Kate Powers pitched the full 9.0 innings with six strikeouts for the win.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Pitcher Kate Powers opened the game striking out the first Jaspers' batter.
• The first batter for UAlbany, Frederick started the Great Danes' hitting with a short single to the pitcher.
• After two scoreless innings, Manhattan put two on the board in the top of the third.
• Unable to answer in the third, UAlbany scored a run in the bottom of the fourth.
• Taylor Quinn opened the inning with a double to left center before Mary Kate Murray put a second runner on with a single to right field.
• Victoria Vilarchao drove in Quinn for the Great Danes' first run.
• Quinn started the bottom of the sixth with a triple but was left on base.
• Manhattan put in a new pitcher before the first UAlbany batter in the bottom of the seventh and quickly there were two Great Dane runners in scoring position. 
• Charlotte Lomb drew an out to drive in Christie Collins from third base.
• UAlbany left three runners on base at the end of the inning but the score was tied, 2-2, and the game headed into extra innings.
• Following a scoreless eighth inning that saw two strikeouts from Powers, the Great Dane defense worked for a double play to bring them into the dugout for the bottom of the ninth.
• With two outs on the board, Frederick doubled to left center to get on base. Quinn hit the walk-off single as Frederick scored the game-winning run.

 
GAME TWO
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 2-10, 0-0 America East | George Washington 11-8, 0-0 A10
 
SCORE: George Washington 3, UAlbany 2
 
KEY STATS

• Freshman Vanessa Meyers led the team with a two-RBI single.
• Five additional Great Danes hit a single - Caitlyn Frederick, Mary Kate Murray, Victoria Vilarchao, Charlotte Lomb, and freshman Sara Scozzari.
• Senior Christie Collins and Murray scored the UAlbany runs.
• Freshmen pitchers Hailey Errichiello and Hayley Wieczerzak shared time in the circle. Errichiello tabbed the start and struck out four batters in 4.0 innings pitched. Wieczerzak averaged over a strikeout an inning with three strikeouts in 2.0 innings pitched.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• GW's Ashley Corpuz tallied the first hit of the game with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first.
• The Great Danes answered and tied the score in the top of the second.
• Mary Kate Murray and Victoria Vilarchao hit back-to-back singles.
• After junior Deanna Grahek advanced Murray and Vilarchao a base, Vanessa Meyers singled up the middle to drive in Murray and Christie Collins, who came in to pinch-run for Vilarchao.
• GW took a one-run lead in the bottom of the third.
• UAlbany strung together three consecutive singles - Charlotte Lomb, Sara Scozzari, and Caitlyn Frederick - to load the bases in the top of the fifth. Still, all three were left stranded as a new pitcher entered the circle and struck out the following two batters.
• The Revs remained scoreless through the fifth and sixth innings.
• George Washington walked Meyers and Scozzari but the Great Danes were unable to take advantage and the Revolutionaries won, 3-2.

 
NEXT: UAlbany will play both Manhattan and George Washington once more on Sunday (Mar. 9) to close the GW Invitational.
 
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