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UNION, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Senior catcher MARISSA BARISO (Hewitt, NJ/West Milford) belted her 19^th career homerun in game two, but Kean University held off the Gothic Knights, 4-2, in a New Jersey Athletic Conference softball doubleheader on April 1. In game one, Kean's Courtney Yard threw the first recorded perfect game in that school's history as the Cougars prevailed, 9-0, in five innings.
 
Kean (15-3, 2-0 NJAC), which received nine votes in the March 26 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III national poll—equivalent to a No. 27 national ranking, was opening its NJAC schedule. NJCU (2-18, 0-4 NJAC) saw its losing streak reach 11. Bariso moved into 10^th place in school history with 110 career hits in the nightcap.
 
Kean's pitching was perfect for the first eight innings of the doubleheader, retiring 24 consecutive batters before a single to lead off the fourth inning in game two.
  In the opener, Yard retired all 15 batters she faced in 5.0 innings, striking out seven over 58 pitches (44 strikes) to improve to 7-2. She also recorded five fly ball and three ground outs and NJCU never got to a three-ball count. Yard, who threw her second career no-hitter tossed Kean's sixth no-hitter in its annals.
 
The game ended after five innings due to the eight-run rule, as the Cougars scored four runs in the second and third innings and a ninth run in the fourth frame.
 
Offensively for the Cougars, designated player Alexis D'Aloisio went 3-for-3 with two runs and one RBI while left fielder Emily Bissonnette and catcher Jill Martin each finished 1-for-2 with two RBIs and one run. Second baseman Emily Sabo was 2-for-3 with an RBI in game one
 
Also for Kean, shortstop Kelly Moorehead scored twice and third baseman Amanda Berezny walked twice and scored twice. Junior left-hander ASHLEY LATUSHKO (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) took the loss (2-9) for NJCU.
 
Kean scored two runs off errors in the second inning. Bissonnette added a two-run single in the inning. Martin produced a two-run double in the third inning with other runs coming in on a sacrifice fly and a Sabo single that made it an eight-run lead. D'Aloisio had an RBI single in the fourth.
  In game two, NJCU outhit Kean, 6-5, but the Cougars made three runs in the first two innings hold up in a 2-run victory.
 
Bariso batted 2-for-3 with two RBIs, one run, and her first homerun of the season, leaving her four shy of equaling the program's career record of 23 by Jen Barletta (1998-2001)
 

NJCU SOFTBALL 100-HIT CLUB
RANK	HITS	NAME	YEARS
1.	206	Jen Barletta	1998-01
2.	188	REBECCA SATZ	2010-13
3.	161	Dana Holtje	1994-97
4.	160	Megan Ginter	2009-12
	160	Sharyn Hunchak	1995-98
6.	150	Kristy Zielinski	1997-00
7.	149	Susie  Matsutani	2005-08
8.	132	Danielle Delfino	2008-11
9.	117	Tara Perrucci	2007-10
10.	110	MARISSA BARISO	2011-14
11.	109	Karen Flicker	1992-95
12.	108	Nicole Scudese	1996-99
13.	106	Stephanie Gomez	2008-10, 2012
Updated: 4/1/2014

Kean left fielder Sandra Binkiewicz had three RBIs, batting 2-for-3. Moorehead drew three walks and Yard walked twice, driving in one run. Center fielder Megan Cegielski, the leadoff hitter, scored three times.
 
Yard (8-2) started for Kean, pitched the first three innings then returned in relief in the top of the sixth immediately after Bariso's solo homerun drew NJCU within two runs. In 5.0 total innings, she struck out six, walked none, and allowed one hit. In 10.0 total innings over two games, she struck out 13 batters, allowed one hit and faced just one over the minimum.
 
Rebecca Rotola allowed two runs and five hits in 2.0 innings for Kean, walking one. Junior right-hander TAYLOR SETAR (Carteret, NJ/Carteret) allowed just two earned runs and five hits in defeat (0-6), walking seven.
 
Kean scored twice in the first inning when Binkiewicz capitalized on a preceding error with an RBI double down the left field line before a sac fly by Yard. In the second, Binkiewicz' two-out RBI single made it 3-0.
 
NJCU finally got its first hit of the day in the fourth when senior center fielder CASEY PEREZ (West New York, NJ/Academy of the Holy Angels), the first batter to face Rotola, singled to the pitcher, stole second, moved to third on another single and scored on NJCU's third hit of the inning—an RBI single up the middle by Bariso.
 
Binkiewicz pushed the lead to 4-1 in the fourth, knocking in an unearned run with a sac fly. Bariso's solo homer in the sixth was NJCU's final offense of the day before Yard re-entered to shut down the Knights. She struck out three swinging in the seventh inning, giving up a lone one-out single.
 
NJCU next faces Baruch College in non-conference doubleheader action on Thursday, April 3 at 3:30 p.m. in New York, NY.

GAME 1: Tuesday, April 1, 2014   | Union, NJ
New Jersey City University (2-17, 0-3 NJAC)	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	-	-	0	0	4
Kean University (14-3, 1-0 NJAC)					X	X	X	-	-	9	8	0
WP: Courtney Yard (7-2). LP: ASHLEY LATUSHKO (2-9).

 

GAME 2: Tuesday, April 1, 2014   | Union, NJ
New Jersey City University (2-18, 0-4 NJAC)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	-	-	2	6	3
Kean University (15-3, 2-0 NJAC)	2	1	0	1	0	0	X	-	-	4	5	0
WP: Courtney Yard (8-2). LP: TAYLOR SETAR (0-5). HR: N-MARISSA BARISO (1).