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Posted: May 06, 2022

Softball Ends Season With Third Place at Skyline Championship, Falling to Manhattanville

Softball Ends Season With Third Place at Skyline Championship, Falling to Manhattanville
Video Box Score

Pitching

Win: Charli Shinstine (16-9)
Loss: Jessica Mecham (6-5)
Batting
#2 Manhattanville
2B: Giovanna Liggett; Abby Tanuma
3B: none
HR: none
#5 St. Joseph's
2B: Alexis Buchanan 2
3B: none
HR: none
Full stats

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — The St. Joseph's University Brooklyn softball team concluded their most successful season since joining the Skyline Conference, claiming third place in the 2022 Skyline Softball Championship after being eliminated by No. 2-seeded Manhattanville College with an 11-5 defeat on Sunday morning. The No. 5-seeded Bears finish with an overall record of 24-14 and their first two Skyline playoff victories in program history.

In their sixth-most victorious season in program history, the team also set multiple individual and team single-season program records. Senior Ashleigh Hartwig (Santee, Calif./West HIlls) concluded her career officially as the all-time leader in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging, doubles, and total bases.

How it Happened

The elimination game started on Friday afternoon in the rain after the Bears' victory over Mount Saint Mary. The Valiants got on the board first with back-to-back two-out hits to post three in the top of the first, but the Bears responded with four in the home half of the inning highlighted by an Alexis Buchanan (Murrietta, Calif./Murrietta) two-run double and a Nicole Trani (Staten Island, N.Y./Moore Catholic) two-out RBI single. But play was halted after one due to the steady rain, with St. Joseph's leading 4-3.

When play resumed under better conditions on Sunday, Manhattanville got on the board early once again, posting four runs on two hits — two coming across unearned aided by a Bears error — and stayed on top for good. The eventual tournament runner-up added two more runs in the third and another pair in the fifth for an 11-4 lead.

The Bears had their opportunities stranding six on base in the second through the fifth, but unable to generate any scoring. A Hartwig two-out knock in the sixth got the first run of the day for the navy-and-gray. An error and a walk in the seventh gained another pair of baserunners with only one out for the early signs of a potential comeback with the lineup about to turn over, but the rally fizzled out with a pair of grounders.

For the Bears

  • Buchanan finished 2-for-4 knocking a pair of doubles, with two RBI and one run scored.
  • Trani also batted 2-for-4 with a RBI.
  • Hartwig went 1-for-3 with a RBI.
  • Heinsch scored twice in a 1-for-3 effort.
  • Gabriella Salvador (Staten Island, N.Y./New Dorp) and Allison Kaspar (Miller Place, N.Y./Rocky Point) both tossed 2.1 innings in relief with no earned runs. Salvador allowed two runs on three hits with two strikeouts, while Kaspar went scoreless over her outing allowing two hits and striking out one.

Records Broken or Tied