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Towers Heroics Push Huskies Past Rutgers 4-2
4/10/2010 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 10, 2010
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - A heroic double to drive in two RBIs in the top of the seventh inning by Julianne Towers (Goodlettsville, Tenn.) pushed the University of Connecticut softball team past Rutgers in game one of the three-game weekend series with the Scarlet Knights Saturday.
The second baseman came to the plate with bases loaded and responded knocking in the game winning run on a double off of the centerfield wall. Towers was a part for three of the four Husky runs on the day.
Kiki Saveriano (Lexington, Mass.) was lights out for the Huskies earning her ninth victory of the season. She finished with a complete game, eight strikeout effort, allowing five hits and just two runs. Both runs came via the longball.
The Huskies improve to 15-18 on the season and 3-4 in BIG EAST play while Rutgers drops to 12-20 in 2010 and has yet to win a conference game in three chances.
Saveriano earned her 100th strikeout of the season as she sat down Brittney Lindley by way of the k in the first inning. The freshman pitcher worked herself out of an early jam with back-to-back strikeouts to end the first unscathed.
Jessica Arremony (Griswold, Conn.) muscled a homerun over the left field wall to give the Huskies a one-run advantage in the top of the second. The roundtripper was the first of the season for the shortstop and the first of her career.
In the third, Towers launched a shot to the exact same spot Arremony hit in the previous inning improving the Huskies lead to two.
Lindley got revenge and cut the Husky lead in half in the bottom of the fourth with a shot to the deepest center of the RU Softball Complex that just snuck over the wall as the Scarlet Knights got on the board for the first time, halfway through the game.
Lindley tied things up at two-all on her second homerun of the game, this time to left-centerfield in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Marissa Guches (Sammamish, Wash.) started things up in the top of the seventh with a hard driven ball up the middle and was replaced at first by pinch runner Kim Silva (Cheshire, Conn.). Pinch hitter Jessica McDermott (Clarksburg, N.J.) reached via a walk and was replaced on the basepath by Amanda Martin (Rowley, Mass.) who reentered the game. Each runner advanced when Jen Ward (Waterford, Conn.) was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Towers' double knocked in the game-winner and an insurance run as the Huskies would go on to finish with the 4-2 victory.
Rutgers threatened in the bottom of the seventh, but Saveriano pitched her way out of a jam, jamming Lindley who popped out to Amy Vaughan (Somerset, Mass.) to end the game, stranding two runners.
The Huskies return to action against Rutgers in game two of the Saturday doubleheader.
