May 3, 2009

Seminoles Complete Final Series Sweep With 4-0 Win Over Boston College
The No. 17 Florida State softball team brought out the brooms to Shea Field as it completed the final regular season sweep over Boston College with a 4-0 shutout on Sunday afternoon. The Seminoles, now 41-13 and 17-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, will take their 12-game winning streak to the conference tournament starting May 8 as the No. 2-seed where they will once again face the Eagles at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

Sophomore pitcher Sarah Hamilton (17-5) started in the circle for the Noles and picked up another shutout win while giving up just two hits and adding seven strikeouts to her résumé this season. With 255 punch outs, the Tallahassee native is now tied for fifth in the FSU single-season Top 10 record book.

Florida State was on the board early in today's game, scoring two unearned runs in the second inning. Starting things off was junior Monica Montez who drew a walk off BC pitcher, Cassie Gage. With two outs, sophomore Kristie McConn hit a short hopper to the third baseman and would reach base safely and advance Montez when the first baseman, Dani Weir, was unable to field the throw.

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NC State Downs ASU, 6-1
Behind the pitching of Lindsay Campana, and the bats of Alyssa Ishibashi and Allison Presnell, the NC State softball team defeated Appalachian State, 6-1, on Sunday at Dail Stadium in Raleigh, N.C. Campana allowed one unearned run on six hits while striking out seven and not allowing a run. Ishibashi and Presnell each chipped in a pair of RBIs and Ishibashi hit her third homerun of the season to get NC State (23-24) on the board in the third.

Ishibashi got NC State in the scoring column with a homerun tucked inside the left foul pole on the first pitch she saw in the inning. Landon Warren dropped a single down the right field line to lead off the inning before Ishibashi's dinger.

Meanwhile, Campana (13-10) kept the Mountaineers bats at bay, allowing just three singles through six innings and retiring 12 straight batters before the third hit allowed in the sixth. 

Tech drops regular-season finale to Pirates
The Virginia Tech softball team saw its modest three-game winning streak broken Sunday afternoon, falling to East Carolina University 4-0 in both team's regular-season finales. The highlight of the game came in the top of the seventh inning when senior Jenna Rhodes singled and then stole second base for the 114th swipe of her career, a new school record.

A scoreless game in the fifth inning was busted open when the Pirates played small ball in plating two runs. The first three batters all reached on infield singles and then a sharp shot up the middle by Marina Gusman-Brown drove in two runs. East Carolina added two more runs on a clutch two-out double in the sixth inning to ice the game.

Tech was its own worst enemy in the field as it failed to field several bunts put down by the Pirates and even botched a run down when ECU failed to get down a suicide squeeze. That same batter then laced a two-RBI single to center field for the lone runs of the game.