GALLOWAY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Stockton University was perfect in game one and scored in every inning in game two as the Ospreys swept a New Jersey Athletic Conference doubleheader from the New Jersey City University softball team on April 11, 8-0 in six innings and 10-2 in five innings.
 
Stockton improved to 14-6 and 4-5 in the league while NJCU fell to 2-18 and 0-8 in the NJAC. The Ospreys had 22 hits in the doubleheader.
 
GAME 1: Stockton 8, NJCU 0 (6 innings)
Senior Brittany Ksiezopolski tossed a perfect game in the opener, retiring all 18 Gothic Knight batters. She had eight strikeouts, seven groundouts and three fly balls in 6.0 innings. It was the second no-hitter thrown against NJCU this season and the sixth perfect game ever tossed. It was also the third no-hitter thrown by Stockton against the Knights (1985, 2001).
 
Stockton had 12 hits in the game and scored twice in the first inning with single runs in the second and third before the eight-run rule came into effect after the Ospreys tacked on four runs in the home sixth. Five of the eight runs were unearned.
 
Ksiezopolski helped her own cause by also being one of the offensive stars of the game, batting 3-for-4 with a double and RBI. First baseman Dominique Dorris was a combined 4-for-5 with five RBIs, four runs, two home runs and a double in the twinbill. In game one she was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Center fielder Nicole Tomo was 2-for-4 with two runs.
 
Dorris' two-run double in the first was all the offense Stockton would need and her solo homer in the third upped the lead to 4-0. All four runs in the decisive eighth were unearned as NJCU committed two of its three errors in the frame. An RBI single by pinch hitter Catherine Wunder pushed the eighth run across.
 
GAME 2: Stockton 10, NJCU 2 (5 innings)
NJCU led 2-0 after the top of the first and the game was tied 2-2 after one before Stockton scored twice in the third and put the game away with a five-run fourth as the Ospreys outhit the Knights, 10-7.
 
Sophomore catcher Jazz Randall (Parsippany, NJ/West Orange) was 2-for-2 and junior first baseman Faith Ely (Vienna, NJ/Hackettstown) batted 2-for-3 with a double, RBI and run scored. Sophomore third baseman Marielis Vazquez (Elizabeth, NJ/Benedictine Academy) also doubled for NJCU.
 
Sophomore right-handed pitcher Brittany Paulikas (Fords, NJ/JFK-Iselin) started and suffered the losses in both games of the doubleheader (2-9). Hannah Bibeault (3-1) won for the Ospreys, allowing one earned run and seven hits with four strikeouts and no walk.
 
Dorris reached base three times, homering and scoring three times with two walks and two RBIs. Wunder, the designated player in game two, was 2-for-2 with two runs. Reserve third baseman Lauren Knoble had a two-run double in her lone at bat.
 
In the first, senior shortstop Crystal Torres (North Bergen, NJ/North Bergen) singled with one out and scored when Ely doubled to left center. Ely later scored when Stockton committed a throwing error after a single by freshman left fielder Juliana Squeo (Carlstadt, NJ/Becton Regional).
 
In the bottom of the inning, Wunder walked with two outs and Dorris hit her third homer of the season, driving in two with a shot over the left center fence. Stockton took the lead for good after two walks and a two-out RBI single by left fielder Marisa Ortiz. A pair of RBI singles in the third pushed the lead to three (5-2) and a two-run double by Knoble helped cement a five-run, five-hit fourth inning.
 
OF NOTE:

• Stockton leads the all-time series, 55-8, and has won the last 14 meetings.
• Game one was the 30th no-hitter thrown against NJCU softball. Previous Stockton no-hitters against NJCU were April 23, 1985 (Gayle Varady, 13-0) and April 21, 2001 (Patricia Kern, 1-0, 7 innings).

 
WHAT'S NEXT:
In a makeup of a rainout on April 7, NJCU will host Montclair State University (7-15, 1-7 NJAC) on April 12 at 12 p.m. at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex. MSU leads the all-time series, 32-2.