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STAC Softball Splits Doubleheader With Post

STAC Softball Splits Doubleheader With Post

Sparkill, N.Y. - Senior Sarah Clancy threw her second straight shutout to carry St. Thomas Aquinas College to a 4-0 win over visiting Post University today in the first game of a non-conference softball doubleheader at Spartan Field. Post won the second game, 8-3, in eight innings.

Clancy, a righthander, allowed just four hits while recording eight strikeouts to win her sixth straight start. Named this week's East Coast Conference Pitcher of the Week, Clancy now owns a 13-9 record and leads the ECC in wins, saves and strikeouts. 

Pacing the offense in the win were Eliana Raposo and freshmen Jessica Feerick. Feerick plated the team's first run with a third-inning single to drive home teammate Amanda Demmerle. The Spartans broke open the game with three runs in the sixth inning on Raposo's RBI single and Olivia Leon's two-run base hit. Demmerle (left field) and Aliya Feerick (right field) supported Clancy with good glove work.

STAC's record moved to 25-19 while Post's overall record now stands at 6-38. The win in the second game snapped Post's 12-game losing streak.
 
In the second game, Post rallied for five runs on four hits in the eighth inning to earn the hard-fought win. Raposo hit her team-leading sixth home run to lead the offense while teammates Elyse Marcano and Aliya Feerick had two hits each. Marcano's fifth-inning triple was her 55th hit of the season and set a new program record for single-season hits.
 
STAC next travels to Queens College on Wednesday (April 24) for an ECC doubleheader slated to start at 2 p.m.