New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 GAME PROGRAM/NOTES: Gothic Knight Insights, MARISSA BARISO
SENIOR DAY PHOTO GALLERY

JERSEY CITY, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Richard Stockton College scored 10 runs in the top of the fifth inning to break open a 1-0 game and notched 12 runs in the first two innings of game two as the Ospreys clinched a New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament berth with a doubleheader sweep of host New Jersey City University, 11-0 and 13-1, both in five innings, on April 26 at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex.
 
Stockton (21-13, 9-9 NJAC), which needed to sweep the NJAC doubleheader from NJCU (5-29, 1-15 NJAC, lost 9) and have Kean University sweep Ramapo College to qualify for the six-team NJAC Tournament, got its wish as the Ospreys claimed the No. 5 seed in the championship field. Stockton pitching limited NJCU to two hits in each game.
 
The final home games of the season served as Senior Day as the Gothic Knights honored their four seniors—catcher and captain MARISSA BARISO (Hewitt, NJ/West Milford), second baseman MAXINE KAMINSKI (Kearny, NJ/Kearny), All-NJAC center fielder CASEY PEREZ (West New York, NJ/Academy of the Holy Angels), and shortstop GABRIELLE RIVERA (Teaneck, NJ/Saint Joseph of the Palisades).
 
Perez had a hit in each game—including an RBI triple in the nightcap—to increase her career hits mark to 98 with two games remaining. She also stole her 36^th base of the season in 37 tries and upped her career steals mark to 81-for-84—a .964 steal percentage which ranks 11^th in NCAA Division III history. Bariso collected her 130^th career hit.
 The opening game was all about the effort of Stockton senior pitcher Michelle Pietrocola. She struck out five of the first six batters she faced including the side in the second and finished with a 10-strikeout, two-hit shutout while walking none in 5.0 innings. She faced just 16 batters over 62 pitches.
 
Pietrocola was the factor with the bat as well. When Stockton sent 14 batters to the plate in the fifth inning, her pinch-hit grand slam over the right-center fence gave the Ospreys an 11-0 lead to enforce the eight-run rule. It was her first at bat of the season and her first career hit in 13 at bats.
 
Stockton had nine hits and worked out seven walks in the game and no player had more than one hit. Center fielder Nicole Tomo, catcher Nicole Scanlon and designated player Nicole Chabak each walked twice and Scanlon scored twice while shortstop Grace Long knocked in two runs.
 
Junior lefty-hander ASHLEY LATUSHKO (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) took the loss (4-16) despite allowing just two hits and one unearned run through the first four innings.
 
NJCU committed three errors at third base in the first two innings but Stockton could only take advantage with one run. A walk, single, and fielding error loaded the bases. A force at the plate retired one runner before a sac fly to left by Long on what should have been the third out, pushed across Scanlon, who singled.
 
In the second, Stockton loaded the bases thanks to a pair of errors but a ground ball back to the mound was the catalyst for a 1-2-3 double play to end the frame. In the top of the third, Perez made two back-to-back nice running catches in the left-center gap to take away potential extra-base hits. Each team had one hit through three innings.
 
With just two hits through four innings, Stockton broke it open in the fifth.  Scanlon and Chabak led off with back-to-back walks and third baseman Samantha Shockey dropped down a bunt single to load the bases with no outs. It was the first of five consecutive singles for Stockton with Long, first baseman Dominique Dorris, second baseman Danielle Kohen and pinch-hitter Gianna Cuffari all following with RBI singles for a 5-0 advantage. After a force at the plate accounted for the first out, Tomo, the ninth batter of the inning, singled through the left side for the sixth hit of the frame and a 6-0 differential. Scanlon drew a bases-loaded walk for the seventh run before Pietrocola stunned everyone with a grand slam and was mobbed at the plate by her teammates.

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.	130	MARISSA BARISO	2011-14
10.	117	Tara Perrucci	2007-10
11.	109	Karen Flicker	1992-95
12.	108	Nicole Scudese	1996-99
13.	106	Stephanie Gomez	2008-10, 2012
The Next 7…
14t.	99	Toni Ann Salvatore	1990-93
14t.	99	Christen Hall	2007-09
16t.	98	CASEY PEREZ	2011-14
16t.	98	Kara Dahl	1997-99
16t.	98	Lacey Skowronski	2007-09
19t.	92	Ana Castellanos	1989, 1995-97
19t.	92	Taylor Lang	2008-11
19t.	92	Jennifer Ambrose	1994-97
Updated: 4/26/2014

Stockton put the game away quickly in the top of the first scoring eight times on five walks and four hits as 12 batters made plate appearances. In all, the Ospreys had 11 hits and worked out 12 walks. Seven of the walked players eventually scored.
 
Junior Brittany Ksiezopolski won (9-6), going 4.0 innings while allowing one run and only two hits with four strikeouts and a walk over 69 pitches. Allyson Kuhn threw a 1-2-3 inning of relief.
 
Offensively for Stockton, Tomo had three RBIs and Scanlon had three RBIs while scoring twice. Victoria Conklin produced her first career homerun, right fielder Rachel Forte was 2-for-3, Shockey was 2-for-2 and outfielder Marisa Ortiz went 1-for-2 with two RBIs. Cuffari and Taylor Hopf drew two walks each. Long and Dorris scored twice.
 
Perez was 1-for-2 with a fourth-inning RBI triple over the head of the Stockton left fielder and into the corner, scoring freshman designated player JAZZ RANDALL (West Orange, NJ/West Orange) who walked and stole second. Junior righty/outfielder TAYLOR SETAR (Carteret, NJ/Carteret) took the loss (1-12).
 
In the first inning, two walks and two singles, the latter by Shockey, made it a quick 1-0 score with one out. A bases loaded walk to Scanlon and a single to right by Dorris made it 3-0. Forte and Tomo walked back-to-back with the bases full for a 5-0 lead. Tomo, batting for the second time in the inning made it 7-0 with a ground-rule double to right-center. A sac fly by Cuffari upped the lead to eight.
 
In the second, Shockey and Scanlon doubled back-to-back after a leadoff walk with Scanlon's hit driving in two runs for a 10-0 lead. A walk and two singles knocked in another run with a sac fly accounting for the 12^th marker. In an overcast game, the rain began coming down hard in the bottom of the 3^rd and it continued raining the rest of the game. Conklin hit a homer for a 13-1 lead in the fourth. It. was her first career extra-base hit.
 
NJCU will conclude its 2014 season on Monday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. when it faces College of Staten Island (17-14, 12-0 CUNYAC) in non-conference action in Staten Island, NY.