FORT MYERS, FL – Saint Joseph's (7-3) completed the 2011 spring trip with a 3-1 win over College of Wooster and a 3-0 loss to Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Alyssa Dunn '11 (Standish, ME) went 3-3 with a run and an RBI in the win over Wooster.
For St. Joe's, the 7-3 record ranks as the team's best mark through 10 games since the 1994 season when the Monks opened the year with a 10-1 effort.
GAME ONE versus College of Wooster
St. Joe's broke a scoreless tie when Connie Grovo '14 (Limington, ME) doubled and scored on a Dunn base hit in the top of the fourth inning. Lindsay Moore '14 (Barrington, NH) plated Dunn with a single in the sixth to make it a 2-0 game.
Wooster cut the deficit in half with a run in the sixth inning, but the Royal Blue managed to add an insurance run off an Emily Leverone '11 (Hampton, NH) single in the seventh to regain the two-run advantage. Danyelle Shufelt '13 (Sutton, VT) reached with a one-out single and scored on the play.
Maddie Kluna '12 (Standish, ME) worked her way around a pair of Wooster hits by striking out the side in the seventh and earned the fourth save of her career with a scoreless inning of relief.
SJC starting pitcher Kiera Walsh '11 (Benton, ME) improved to 2-1 on the year after allowing four hits and one run with three K's in six innings of work.
Offensively for the Monks, Shufelt went 3-4 with a run and two steals and Moore was 2-3 with an RBI. Grovo and Maria Labbe '12 (Lewiston, ME) both doubled in the victory.
GAME TWO versus Wisconsin-Oshkosh
The Monks' final game of the trip was a good old-fashioned pitcher's duel. St. Joe's starter Rae-Marie Copan '14 (Newton, MA), who scattered seven hits and allowed two earned runs while fanning five in her third collegiate start, certainly pitched well enough to win but the SJC offense failed to produce against Wisconsin-Oshkosh hurler Courtney Wautier, who allowed just three hits while whiffing seven in a complete-game effort.
Shufelt, Grovo and Moore all singled for the Monks in a losing effort. No SJC runner reached third base and only two advanced to second in the setback. Copan fell to 2-1 on the year with the losing decision in the circle.
Oshkosh scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings en route to the shutout victory.
