Softball Season Ends in Skyline First Round With 2-0 Loss to Farmingdale State

Box Score

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Farmingdale State College avenged their only shutout of the season handing the St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) softball team a 2-0 loss in a swift pitchers' duel in the first round of the 2018 Skyline Conference Championship.

Junior Victoria Mahoney (Allenwood, N.J./Saint John Vianney) fired a no-hitter for three innings and finished with seven strikeouts, but the Bears seventh-inning rally loading the bases would fall short.

The Basics

Final Scores: Farmingdale State 2, St. Joseph's 0
Records: Farmingdale State (16-17), St. Joseph's (12-19)
Location: Farmingdale, N.Y.

How it Happened

A Nicole Quintana (Brooklyn, N.Y./St. Edmund Prep) bunt single in the second beating out a sacrifice attempt was the lone hit for either squad in the first three frames.
The Rams finally got to Mahoney in the fourth and knocked three singles to load the bases and scored the game's opening run on a Sierra Cardenales sac fly.
Farmingdale added another in the fifth after Kimberly Basile's leadoff double set the table for a two-out RBI-single by Lexie Collard.
Megan Finnerty (Whitestone, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) led off the sixth win a single—just SJC's second hit of the contest—and reached third on a pair of sacrifices, but the Bears couldn't deliver her home.
SJC strung together their best effort in the seventh, with Kelsie Whalen (Florence, N.J./Notre Dame), Sarah Kampuries (Ozone Park, N.Y./John Adams), and Quintana knocking three straight singles to load the bases with no outs, but after a strikeout, the threat ended on a double play. Stephanie Rancel (Middle Village, N.Y./Christ the King) appeared to score Whalen on a sacrifice fly, but was called out on appeal for leaving early.

For the Bears

Battling through a cold, Victoria Mahoney had another strong effort in the circle, striking out seven over six innings pitched, allowing five hits, one walk and two earned runs.
Nicole Quintana was the only Bear with a multi-hit game with a 2-for-3 effort on bunt singles.
Sarah Kampuries (1-for-2, BB), Megan Finnerty (1-for-2) and Kelsie Whalen (1-for-3) collected the other hits for the Bears.

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