MANSFIELD, Conn. – Junior right-hander
Carley Stoker (Sandy Creek, NY) pitched the 39
th no-hitter in Eastern Connecticut State University softball history in the first game and junior
Cassie Woods (Mystic) extended her hitting streak to 18 games as the No. 7 nationally-ranked Warriors swept Keene State College, 9-0 and 5-0 in a non-conference doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at Clyde Washburne Field. The first game was stopped after five innings.
Stoker (9-0) walked two batters and faced two batters over the 15-batter minimum in the first game to record her sixth shutout and lower her ERA to 1.95. Keene (1-7) did not get a ball out of the infield in the first game in helping the Warriors to their 18
th consecutive win this year without a loss. Stoker had a hand in 11 of 15 outs with six strikeouts and five assists on ground balls.
SARAH REMILLARD
First career home run
(Photo by Cami Makula '21)
The no-hitter is the first by an Eastern pitcher in nine years. Former four-time All-America Molly Rathbun had recorded the last nine, three coming in 2012.
Woods, a former first-team All-Little East Conference outfielder at Keene and the LEC Player-of-the-Week the last two weeks, had four singles, scored four runs and drove in a run in the doubleheader and is now batting a team-leading .593. Batting leadoff, she was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI in Game 1 and reached three more times in the second game and scored two runs. She singled to open the bottom of the first and came around to score to extend her hitting streak.
Junior righty
Brooke Matyasovsky (Orange) matched Stoker by winning her ninth straight decision in the second game. She allowed four hits over seven innings while fanning three and walking three. She lowered her ERA to 1.22.
Freshman second baseman
Sarah Remillard (Grafton,
MA) was 3-for-6 with three RBI and a run scored on the day. In the first game, she hit her first collegiate home run in the third and stroked a two-run double in the fourth. Senior rightfielder
Alexis Tyrrell (Torrington) and junior third baseman
Carolyn Biel (Wallingford) each had two hits on the day, with Biel reaching three times. Tyrrell drove in two runs with a pair of first-game singles and Biel scored once in each game.
Junior shortstop
Julia SanGiovanni (East Haven) was hit by pitch once in each game for a record 27
th time in her career and extended her on-base streak to 17 this year.
Junior third baseman Meghan Moran collected two of her team's four hits on the day for Keene. Sophomore Olivia Albert allowed only five hits and two earned runs in the second game, fanning three with a walk.
Eastern visits Western Connecticut State University Tuesday at 4 p.m.