Worcester, Mass. (April 16) -- Senior left fielder Melissa Jalbert (Gardner, Mass./Gardner) hit a one-out, three-run walkoff homer to left in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Assumption to a 6-5 win over Le Moyne and a split of the doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon. Le Moyne had won game one by a 5-1 final.

In the opening game, Le Moyne junior pitcher Sarah Harrison was dominant as she scattered five hits while striking out 13 and walking none.  The Dolphins got on the board in the top of the second as Kirsten Trotta led off the inning with a double to left and eventually came home on a Harrison RBI groundout for the 1-0 lead. The score remained that way until the sixth as Demetra Kermidas led off the inning with a triple to right field and scored on a Fran Kiernan homer to left for the 3-0 lead. The Dolphins added a fourth run on an RBI double to left by Cara Cawley and took the 4-0 edge into the bottom of the frame. Le Moyne scored its final run of the first game in the top of the seventh on a towering home run to right by Kermidas.

Assumption got on the board in the bottom of the seventh as junior Tanya Robidoux (Hooksett, N.H./Manchester Central) led off the inning with a double to left and eventually scored on a two-out RBI single to right from freshman Liz Morgan (Abington, Mass./Abington) to account for the 5-1 final.

Senior pitcher Rachel Hedge (Manchester, N.H./Manchester Memorial) went the distance for the Hounds, allowing seven hits with five earned runs while striking out five to drop to 1-9 overall. Harrison improved to 10-13 with the win for Le Moyne.               

In game two, Le Moyne got it going early and struck for two quick runs off of freshman pitcher Jess Underwood (Hudson, N.H./Alvirne). After Kermidas led the game off with a walk and was moved over to second on a sacrifice bunt, she came home on a Trotta two-run homer just inside the left-field foul pole for the 2-0 edge. Underwood settled down nicely for the Hounds over the next three innings as the game remained just 2-0. The Dolphins added a run in the fifth as Trotta hit her second homer of the game and sixth of the season to push the lead up to 3-0.

Assumption answered with a three-run sixth with an RBI double from Jalbert, a sacrifice fly to center from Robidoux and an RBI single to left center from senior Lauren Medeiros (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) to tie the game at 3-3. After a leadoff walk in the seventh for Le Moyne, Assumption pulled Underwood in favor of Hedge after Underwood allowed just six hits thru six innings pitched with three earned runs and two strikeouts.

The game remained tied at 3-3 into the 10th inning before Le Moyne struck for a pair of runs in the frame. Kristie Capuano's single thru the left side put the Dolphins ahead by a 4-3 margin, followed by a Trish Andrews RBI groundout later in the inning for the 5-3 edge.

With darkness creeping in, the game headed to the bottom of the 10th with Assumption in search of a pair to tie things again. Sophomore catcher Andrea Crowley (Norfolk, Mass./Ursuline Academy) was placed on second base to start the inning, per the international tiebreaker. After a check-swing walk by Paige Licata (Revere, Mass./Revere) put two runners on, Jalbert followed that with a three-run homer over the left-field fence to lift the Hounds to the 6-5 comeback victory.

Hedge picked up the win for the Hounds as she went four innings and allowed two hits and two runs to improve to 2-9 overall. Harrison ended the day with 28 total strikeouts as she registered 15 in game two, but fell to 10-14 on the season in the 10-inning loss.

With the split, Assumption sits at 10-22-1 overall and 5-9 in Northeast-10 divisional play, while Le Moyne is now 11-16 overall and 5-8 in the division.

The Hounds are back in action on Friday and Saturday as Assumption travels to Pace University for a three-game divisional series in Pleasantville, N.Y.

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