GAME 2 BOXSCORE
Fairfield, CT (April 17, 2005)- Jill Medea hurled two complete games, allowing just one unearned run, and Kiera Fox belted her ninth home run, breaking a 12-year old Manhattan record, as the Lady Jaspers swept a MAAC double header at Fairfield this afternoon at Alumni Softball Field. The double header sweep ended the Stags' nine-game win streak over Manhattan, and handed Fairfield just its fourth loss in its last 18 games. Manhattan took the first game, 3-1, before posting a 7-0 shutout in the nightcap, improving the Lady Jaspers' record to 14-16, and evening their MAAC slate at 2-2.
In the first game, the Stags scored the first run of the game on a passed ball in the bottom of the first, but Medea would settle down after that, allowing just one hit after the third inning.
Manhattan would score all the runs it would need in the top of the fourth. With one out, Tina Buyea singled before Fox brought her home with a mammoth shot to dead center field. The homer, Fox's ninth on the season, breaks Danielle Yearick's 1993 tally of eight, and gives her five in her last eight games. Kerry Cook brought home Erika Kostik later in the inning with an RBI single to provide the final margin.
Medea scattered four hits and struck out eight while walking just one.
In the second game, the Lady Jaspers would get the bats going early, plating three runs in the top of the first. Fox would plate the first two on a single to right, scoring Liz Strein and Jennifer McCracken. Michelle Gutierrez would follow with an RBI sacrifice fly, scoring Buyea.
Donnette Reed would score on a passed ball in the fourth to push the lead to 4-0 before the Stags loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the fourth, but Medea tallied a strikeout and groundout to end the threat, as all three of Fairfield's hits came in the inning.
Two wild pitches would bring home Strein and McCracken in the fifth to push the lead to 6-0 before McCracken doubled home Strein in the top of the seventh for the Lady Jaspers' seventh and final run.
Medea allowed just the three fourth inning singles, striking out four without issuing a walk to improve her record to 10-8.
The double header sweep was the first for the Lady Jaspers over Fairfield since the 1996 season, as Manhattan posted 4-3, and 3-2 wins over the Stags on that day. Since that day, Fairfield had won 16 of 18 games vs. the Lady Jaspers.
Manhattan returns to action on Thursday, April 24, when the Lady Jaspers host Wagner for a double header at Gaelic Park. The first pitch is slated for 3:00 p.m.
