Felician Athletics - 3/20/08 SOFTBALL - Flynn Shutout Salvages Final Day In Florida

CLERMONT, Fla. -- Sophomore Sherry Flynn (Oakland, NJ) pitched a five-hit shutout to lead the Felician College softball team to a 6-0 victory over Bethel (Minn.) College on Thursday evening in the final contest of her team's nine-game stay at the National Training Center Spring Games. Earlier on Thursday, Felician dropped a pair of one-run games to NAIA opponents.

Flynn (2-2) struck out seven batters and walked none, allowing just one Royal baserunner to reach third base. Katie Spera's (Lanoka Harbor, NJ) two-run triple highlighted a three-run second inning for the Golden Falcons, who used four base hits in the fourth inning to tack on thre more runs. Flynn went 2 for 3 with a double and Heather Van Dyke (West Milford, NJ) also had two hits. Lauren Habisch (Lakeville, MN) was 2 for 3 for Division-III Bethel (2-3).

Felician (4-7) began the day with a 2-1 loss to the Indiana University of Technology in which the winners scored the tying and walk-off runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Van Dyke broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the top of the fifth. But Indiana Tech's leadoff batter in the seventh reached on an error. A pinch-runner stole second, and a single put runners at the corners. After a sacrifice, Tech's April Alexander (Tukwila, WA) singled off of the Golden Falcons' Dara DeSocio (Cliffside Park, NJ) to score both runners for the victory.

DeSocio (1-2) gave up one earned run on four hits in 6 1/3 innings. She struck out six and walked none. Ashley Pointer (Buchanan, MI) pitched a four-hitter for the Warriors.

The Golden Falcons lost on another late rally in the morning session, when they were defeated by the University of Rio Grande, 5-4, in eight innings. As the visiting team, Rio Grande had the first chance in the international tiebreaker, and Brittany Creviston (Richwood, OH) singled home the go-ahead run with no one out. Redwoman pitcher Miranda Laws (Nellis, WV) escaped a first-and-third, one out jam in the bottom of the eighth to secure the victory.

Hope Van Dyke (West Milford, NJ) scored three of Felician's four runs, and losing pitcher Nicole Broecker (Staten Island, NY) was oen of three Golden Falcons with two hits. Broecker allowed nine hits and one earned run in eight innings. Creviston and Jessica Ross (Hilliard, OH) each went 3 for 4 for Rio Grande.

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