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JERSEY CITY, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Richard Stockton College scored seven runs in the fifth inning of game one to erase a 4-1 New Jersey City University lead before pitching a two-hit shutout in game two as the Ospreys swept a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader from the Gothic Knights, 9-4 and 3-0, on Tuesday afternoon at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex.

Stockton (23-13, 4-12 NJAC) received a two-hit shutout in game two from sophomore right-hander Michelle Pietrocola (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick). NJCU (11-25, 2-14 NJAC) lost its 12^th straight games. Stockton leads the all-time series, 51-8.
 
Senior shortstop MEGAN GINTER (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) was a combined 3-for-7 in the doubleheader, increasing her career hit total to 158 as the only NJCU player with a hit in both games. She notched her 15^th double of the season, matching the previous single-season school record for doubles that was broken on Saturday by junior third baseman REBECCA SATZ (Morris Plains, NJ/Morristown) with 17. In the opener, NJCU scored four times in the bottom of the second inning, but the Ospreys answered in the top of the fifth, as 11 players came to the plate and seven runs crossed it before adding a seventh inning insurance marker. Each team had seven hits in the game/
 
Junior left fielder Nichole Terreri (Deptford, NJ/Deptford) led all players, batting 3-for-5 with two runs, two RBIs, a triple and homerun. She had two hits (triple, single) in the fifth inning before a two-out solo homerun to right in the seventh.
 
Senior shortstop Joey Afflitto (Brick, NJ/Brick) had two RBIs. Junior designated player Heather Corica (Iselin, NJ/JFK-Iselin) walked four times and scored twice. NJCU pitchers combined to walk nine batters.
 
Ginter was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and one run with her 27^th steal of the season and sophomore designated player CASEY PEREZ (West New York, NJ/Academy of the Holy Angels) was 2-for-3 with a run and RBI. Satz went 1-for-4 with one RBI, extending her hitting streak to 10 games.
 
Senior Jamie Gasko (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) earned her seventh win (7-5), allowing four runs (none earned) against seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks. She also had two steals as a base runner.
 
Senior JESS MUCERINO (Whippany, NJ/Whippany Park) started and finished the game on the mound (5-10), allowing six earned runs (seven total) and five hits, walking six (one strikeout) in 5.2 innings. Junior ASHLEY O'BEIRNE (Wood-Ridge, NJ/Immaculate Conception) pitched 1.1 innings over the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, allowing two unearned runs against two hits, walking three batters.
 
Stockton gained an initial 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning as three Ospreys walked and with the based full Afflitto grounded out to knock in Corica.
 
In the bottom of the inning, rookie left fielder JESSICA CHANDLER (Fountain Hills, AZ/Fountain Hills) reached on a two-out error and advanced to third on O'Beirne's second hit of the season. An RBI single through the left side by Perez tied the game before Ginter deposited a two-run double to right center for a 3-1 advantage. Satz followed by squeaking an RBI single between the third baseman and the line to bring home Ginter for a 4-1 edge.
 
The lead held up until the fifth. Terreri tripled down the right field line and the next two batters were both hit by a pitch before two runs scored on a fielding error. Gasko stole second and Corica walked to load the bases and sophomore second baseman Danielle Kohen (Clark, NJ/Arthur L. Johnson) drew a free pass to force in the tying run. A pinch-hit RBI single by sophomore catcher Nicole Chabak (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) gave Stockton the lead for good and a pinch-hit infield ground out by sophomore Rachel Forte (Vineland, NJ/Vineland) made it 6-4, Afflitto grounded out on what should have been the third out of the inning, and pushed across the seventh run. An RBI single by Terreri, her second hit of the inning, made it 8-4.
 
Stockton left two runners on in the sixth inning before Terreri's solo homer in the seventh added the ninth run. After an illegal substitution by Stockton in the bottom of the seventh, NJCU loaded the bases, but was unable to score. In game two, Stockton scored twice in the top of the first on a two-run homer by sophomore third baseman Grace Long (Egg Harbor Township, NJ/Egg Harbor Township), and added a single run in the second inning for a three-run lead.
 
The three runs proved to be more than enough for Pietrocola, who lost a bid for a no-hitter with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. She struck out seven and walked four to earn the win (10-5).
 
Afflitto, junior second baseman Stephanie Darrow (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) and senior right fielder Katelyn Derewecki (Hillsborough, NJ/Hillsborough)—the top three in the batting order—each went 2-for-4 for the Ospreys. Long had two RBIs on her only hit of the day—her eighth homerun of the season.
 
Junior second baseman GABRIELLE RIVERA (Teaneck, NJ/Saint Joseph of the Palisades), who didn't play in game one, had a two-out single in the bottom of the sixth to break up the no-hitter and Ginter added a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh. Chandler walked twice for NJCU. Satz did not have a hit for only the third time in 36 games this season as her 10-game hitting streak was snapped.
 
O'Beirne pitched well in defeat, allowing only three runs with two strikeouts and two walks. She gave up 10 hits, but eight were singles.
 
In the first inning, Darrow singled with one out and scored on Long's homer to left for the 2-0 margin. In the second inning, Chabak and junior center fielder Jessica Goncalves (Union, NJ/Union) each walked and with runners on the corners, the two executed a double steal of second and home as Chabak scored on the delay from third for the 3-0 edge.

Stockton, which left nine runners stranded in game one and eight in game two, left the bags full in the third and two on in the top of the seventh.
 
NJCU's best scoring chance came in the fifth. With one out, Perez and Ginter reached on back-to-back errors and Satz walked to load the bases before Pietrocola preserved the shutout by striking out her third batter of the inning.
 
NJCU, playing a six-game home stand to conclude the season, hosts Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham on Thursday, April 26 at 3 p.m. in its final non-conference games of the season. Stockton wraps up the regular season on Saturday, April 28 when it hosts Rutgers-Newark at 1 p.m. in Galloway, NJ.