(Carlisle, Pa.) – The Dickinson softball team celebrated an early Senior Day, sweeping Swarthmore College to improve to 4-0 in the Centennial Conference. The Red Devils honored seniors Michelle Orden (Hillsdale, N.J./Pascack Valley) and Nicole Torlincasi (Kings Park, N.Y./Kings Park) between games as they won the opener, 7-1, and claimed a 1-0 thriller in the nightcap.
Sophomore Madison Milaszewski (Rutland, Mass./Sutton) tossed a complete game to win the opener, scattering five hits and recording eight strikeouts.
Dickinson put two runs on the board in the third inning with back-to-back RBI doubles from Kat Parise (Pine Bush, N.Y./Pine Bush) and Alicia Lane (Bolton, Mass./Garaway).
Parise led-off the fifth with a single and scored on a triple off the bat of Nicole Clayton (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley). Clayton made the score, 4-0, scoring on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Killian Kueny (Ewing, N.J./Ewing).
Torlincasi and Parise added back-to-back base-hits in the sixth, setting the stage for a two-RBI single from Clayton. Rachel Brenowitz (Germantown, Md./Clarksburg) reached on an error in the third and was hit by a pitch in the sixth, scoring in both innings.
The Garnet pushed across one in the top of the sixth with singles from Sara Planthaber and Elizabeth Curcio.
Parise went 3-for-3 with two RBIs and three runs scored in the opener while Clayton finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs, scoring once as well.
Junior Emily Rosenberg (Fredericksburg, Va./Massaponax) started game two in the circle, throwing four strong innings before Milaszewski came on in the fifth to record her second win of the day.
Junior Frankie Ponziani turned in a solid pitching performance for Swarthmore in the nightcap, as both teams went scoreless through five innings.
Torlincasi singled to start the sixth inning and moved all the way to third in a sacrifice bunt. She scored the lone run as Lane reached on an error to give the Devils a 1-0 lead.
The Garnet threatened with runners on first and third in the top of the seventh but the Devils held. Brenowitz made a great catch at the edge of the backstop to end the game.
Torlincasi led the way in game two, going 2-for-3 with the game-winning run. Jessica Epstein (Madison, N.J./Madison) had the Devils' only other hit as Ponziani allowed just three hit in the loss.
The Red Devils improve to 7-13 on the season and remain unbeaten in conference play at 4-0. They were scheduled to play Gettysburg in a make-up on Sunday, but that double-header was postponed. The Red Devils are home again on Tuesday, hosting Franklin & Marshall at 7:00 pm.
