GAME ONE BOX SCORE | GAME TWO BOX SCORE 

When and Where: April 10, 2017 – Manchester, N.H. (SNHU Softball Field)
Game One Score: Southern New Hampshire University 3, Post University 2
Game Two Score: Southern New Hampshire University 8, Post University 0 (6 innings)
Records: SNHU 15-11, Post 8-18

Junior Sarah Lavallee (Candia, N.H.) of the Southern New Hampshire softball team fired her first career no-hitter on Monday to highlight a Penmen sweep of Post University. Southern New Hampshire captured game one, 3-2, before Lavallee's no-no led to an 8-0, six-inning, triumph over the Eagles.

Lavallee fanned six and walked just one batter in six innings of work. She threw 87 pitches, 58 of which were strikes, and faced one batter over the minimum. After working around an error and her lone free pass of the afternoon in the first, Lavallee was perfect for the remainder of the game and went to three balls on only three of the 15 remaining hitters.

Offensively, Lavallee turned in a 2-for-4 afternoon with three RBI and a run scored. She reached base five times in the two-game set after working three walks. Sophomore Erin Garczynski (Norwood, Mass.) led the way for the Penmen with a 5-for-7 day at the dish that included a double and two runs scored while senior Erin Morrissey (Commack, N.Y.), junior Brittany Perdigao (Stoughton, Mass.), and freshman Jordan Wade (East Taunton, Mass.) collected three hits apiece.

Southern New Hampshire provided Lavallee with all the offense she would need in Monday's finale in the bottom of the second. Lavallee started the rally with a walk before Wade followed with an infield single. After Morrissey moved both runners into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt, freshman Gabriella Vachon (Newton, Mass.) drilled the first pitch she saw off the base of the wall in left center to plate Lavallee and Wade with the game's first two runs.

The score remained unchanged until the home half of the fourth when the Penmen doubled their lead with two more runs. Morrissey led off the frame with base hit before being lifted for freshman pinch-runner Logan Filo-Loos (Dudley, Mass.), who advanced to third on back-to-back groundouts. Perdigao stepped in next and shot the first pitch she saw down the line in left, which drove in Filo-Loos and extended the SNHU advantage to three. Southern New Hampshire pushed its cushion to four with the ensuing batter, as freshman Hannah Neverett (Nashua, N.H.) was the beneficiary of a Post miscue that allowed Perdigao to come all the way around and score. 

After Morrissey tacked on a run in the fifth with an RBI single to center that brought in freshman Maddy Barone (Halifax, Mass.) with the fifth run of the ball game, the Penmen put the game away in the bottom of the sixth. Senior Jessica Torsiello (Morris Plains, N.J.) drew a bases loaded walk to push across the sixth run before Lavallee followed with a base on balls of her own to make it 7-0. Wade capped the game's scoring with a single to center to drive in Garczynski, and enact the eight-run mercy rule.

Post jumped ahead early in game one, as it scored twice in the top half of the first to take a 2-0 advantage. Kayla Kresley singled and stole second before Emily Schaffer drove her in with a base hit. After Schaffer took second on the throw to the plate, Erica Ragazzone connected on an RBI single to push the visitors' lead to a pair.

Southern New Hampshire answered right back in the home half of the second with a two-spot that evened the score. A two-out single by Garczynski started things up before a Torsiello base hit put two on with two away. Lavallee was next up for SNHU, and she smoked a double to the gap in right center to drive in both runs and knot things up at two aside. 

Barone settled in after the first, and retired six of the next seven batters she faced with three strikeouts before the Penmen took the lead for good. A four-pitch walk to Neverett led off the bottom of the third before a bunt single by Garczynski put two on with nobody out. After Torsiello moved both runners on a sac bunt, senior Devan Rabidou (Ashland, Mass.) walked two batters later but the fourth balls snuck to the backstop. Neverett read the play and scampered across with what proved to be the game-winning run.

Barone upped her record to 6-3 in the circle after fanning nine and surrendering two earned runs in a complete-game effort. She scattered five hits and allowed just one runner to reach second base after the first inning. 

Notes:
- Lavallee's no-hitter was the first for Southern New Hampshire since Ali Maloof held Saint Michael's College without a hit on April 15, 2015.
- Monday's doubleheader was Southern new Hampshire's first home softball game since April 23, 2016, a span of 352 days.
- The Penmen outhit the Eagles, 17-5, over the course of the two games. SNHU committed one error in the twinbill while Post mishandled two plays.

What's Next:
Southern New Hampshire returns to the SNHU Softball Field on Tuesday (April 11) when it hosts Saint Michael's in a Northeast-10 Conference clash at 5 p.m.

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