New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NEW YORK, NY (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Senior center fielder CASEY PEREZ (West New York, NJ/Academy of the Holy Angels) was a combined 6-for-8 with five RBIs and four stolen bases out of the leadoff spot and New Jersey City University combined for 30 runs and 30 hits in 10 innings and scored the most runs in a game in 13 seasons in the opener as NJCU routed Baruch College, 19-3 and 11-3 in non-conference softball on April 3. Both games played at Randall's Island ended in five innings due to the eight-run rule.
 
NJCU (4-18) snapped an 11-game losing streak as it reached double figures in hits for the second and third times this season. In game one, the Gothic Knights compiled season-highs with 19 runs and 19 hits and scored the most runs in a game since a 22-7 whitewashing of John Jay College on March 29, 2001. The 19 runs equaled the 12^th most in a game in the 34-year-history of the program. Baruch fell to 0-6.
 
Freshman designated player KAYLA MUNIZ (North Bergen, NJ/North Bergen) who entered the doubleheader a combined 4-for-30 (.133) broke out in the twinbill, batting a combined 6-for-7 with five RBIs, four runs and two extra-base hits, including her first career homerun, raising her average to .270. Senior second baseman MAXINE KAMINSKI (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) scored five runs in the two games.
 

MOST RUNS IN A GAME, NJCU SOFTBALL HISTORY
DATE	H/A	OPPONENT	SITE	W/L	HOME RUNS	OPP. RUNS
04/01/1995	H	Medgar Evers	Jersey City, NJ	W	28	1
03/27/1997	A	John Jay	New York, NY	W	27	8
03/28/1988	H	College of St. Elizabeth	Jersey City, NJ	W	23	3
03/16/1993	N	Utica	Myrtle Beach, SC	W	23	6
04/01/1995	H	Medgar Evers	Jersey City, NJ	W	23	2
03/24/1998	A	College of Staten Island (NY)	Staten Island, NY	W	22	6
04/04/1998	A	Rutgers-Newark *	Newark, NJ	W	22	2
04/29/1992	H	Medgar Evers	Jersey City, NJ	W	21	4
04/04/1998	A	Rutgers-Newark *	Newark, NJ	W	21	10
04/07/1999	A	Lehman College (NY)	Bronx, NY	W	21	0
05/05/1983	H	Centenary College ^	Bayonne, NJ	W	20	19
04/24/1989	A	College of St. Elizabeth	Morristown, NJ	W	19	4
04/03/2014	A	Baruch College	New York, NY	W	19	3

In the most productive offensive effort since 2001, NJCU scored four times in the first inning and added five runs in the third, fourth and fifth frames for a dominant 16-run victory, led by Perez who batted 4-for-5 with three RBIs, a triple, two steals and a run scored. All nine Gothic Knights in the lineup had at least one run with the bottom seven batters all scoring multiple times. Eight different players had a hit for NJCU and eight added an RBI.
 
Junior right-hander

(West Orange, NJ/West Orange), a standout on the women's basketball team, entered the game 1-for-9 to open her career but in a starting role in right field she flourished, batting 2-for-4 with her first two collegiate RBIs. Perez went 2-for-3 with two RBIs, and two steals while Kaminski scored three times, walked twice, and was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Bariso scored twice (1-for-4) and Rivera was 2-for-4 with a run scored.
 
Junior left-hander ASHLEY LATUSHKO (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) won (3-9), striking out a career-high equaling five batters. She walked three, scattered five singles and allowed only two earned runs.
 
Auman took the loss (0-6), despite only three of the nine runs she permitted being earned. Offensively she was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
 
For NJCU, 12 players came to the plate in the first inning as the Knights collected three hits and capitalized on four Baruch errors. A bases-loaded RBI single by Kaminski and back-to-back sac flies by Muniz and Rivera, the latter of which was dropped and scored two runs, made it 4-0. Perez tacked on a two-RBI single in the inning.
 
Baruch got two runs back in the bottom of the first, scoring once on an error but NJCU responded with a two-run single by Randall in the second for an 8-2 margin. Auman's RBI single in the third made it a five-run deficit before Muniz' homer in the fifth sealed it for NJCU.
 
The Knights host NJAC and NCAA powerhouse Rowan University (14-7, 1-3 NJAC) on Saturday, April 5 at 1 p.m. in a conference doubleheader at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex. Rowan went 41-9 last year before losing to eventual national champion Tufts in the regional final.

 

GAME 1: Thursday, April 3, 2014   | New York, NY (Randall's Island)
New Jersey City University (3-18)	4	0	5	5	5	X	X	-	-	19	19	0
Baruch College (0-5)	0	0	1	2	0	X	X	-	-	3	7	5
WP: TAYLOR SETAR (1-6). LP: Olivia Auman (0-5)

 

GAME 2: Thursday, April 3, 2014   | New York, NY (Randall's Island)
New Jersey City University (3-18)	6	2	0	0	3	X	X	-	-	11	11	1
Baruch College (0-5)	2	0	1	0	0	X	X	-	-	3	5	6
WP: ASHLEY LATUSHKO (3-9). LP: Courtney White (0-1). HR: N-KAYLA MUNIZ (1).

 

 

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.	113	MARISSA BARISO	2011-14
11.	109	Karen Flicker	1992-95
12.	108	Nicole Scudese	1996-99
13.	106	Stephanie Gomez	2008-10, 2012
Updated: 4/3/2014