Box Score CLERMONT, Fla. -- Junior Sharon Martin (Wethersfield) and senior Mattie Brett (Waterford) both homered in a seven-run third inning as the Eastern Connecticut State University softball team opened its eight-game schedule at the National Training Center with a 17-0 victory over Carroll University (WI) in a game stopped after five innings.
At right: Sam Rossetti
Twenty-one years after posting a 13-2, five-inning decision over Carroll (1-6) in Orlando in the only other previous meeting between the programs, Eastern (1-4) scored ten runs in the first inning against the Pioneers on the way to its first win of the season.
In the third, Martin swatted a three-run home run and Brett a two-run homer to back the complete-game pitching of junior Erin Miller (Waterford), who won her first game of the season – 15th of her career. Miller spaced four hits while fanning six and walking two.
Junior Sam Rossetti (Shelton) and Martin each had three hits and four RBI, Rossetti doubling twice. Brett had two hits and also reached on a walk.
Carroll, which features 12 freshmen and sophomores on its roster, has lost five straight.
