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Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score


                FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Alli Wigand drove in four base runners and registered the game-winning RBI in both ends of a doubleheader as the Fairfield University softball team swept Rider University in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) doubleheader. Wigand finished the twin bill with three hits in six at-bats.

                The Stags scored the game's only run in the bottom of the first in the opening game. Kristen Filicia started the inning with a single and went to second on a ground out. After a strikeout, Wigand brought home the run with a two-out single up the middle. Fairfield had several other scoring opportunities, including a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the bottom of the third inning. Rider pitcher Rachael Matreale fanned the next three Stags to keep the game at 1-0.

                Fairfield pitcher Rebecca Trott did not allow a base runner to reach third base in the game and only two Broncs runners made it to second in the game. Trott tossed a two-hit shutout while fanning six hitters and walking two others.

                In the second game, Rider broke through first with a pair of runs in the top of the third inning. Alyssa Paul drove home the first run with a single which also pushed Kehli Washington to third base. That  was an important play because a few pitches later, the two student-athletes completed a double steal that allowed Washington to score the team's second run and make it a 2-0 lead.

                The lead evaporated in the bottom of the inning when Wigand laced a two-run, one-out double to the left-center field gap that chased Sammy Ruffolo and Lauren Liseth home with the tying runs. The game would remain tied until the bottom of the sixth inning in which Fairfield plated five runs to take control at 7-2.

                Wigand broke the tie with a single through the left side that made it 3-2 in Fairfield's favor. The Stags would eventual load the bases with one out, setting up a base-clearing double off the left field fence by pitcher Rae Ball. She would come home to score after Kimi Kurata sliced a single between first and second base to make it a 7-2 lead.

                Ball earned the win by striking out four hitters, walking one, and scattering eight hits.