HAVERFORD, Pa. - Tossing the first perfect game in program history in a 10-0 Game 2 victory, Brittany Stevenson helped the Haverford College softball team complete a sweep of visiting Gwynedd-Mercy College on Thursday afternoon in non-conference action. The Fords rolled past the Griffins, 7-0, in Game 1.
Blanking Gwynedd-Mercy on the scoreboard, Haverford (11-10-1) held the Griffins (0-22) to just three hits over the course of the afternoon.
Stevenson (5-6) faced just 15 batters in the five inning contest as she struck out six and walked none.
The Fords' offense tallied three runs in the third inning with Elizabeth Newman's triple getting things started. Lauren Touey followed with a double and Jen DiCandilo provided the big blow of the frame with her first home run of the season.
Registering her first hit of the season, Stevenson led off the fourth with a double. A single by Touey brought Stevenson home to move Haverford ahead 4-0 before DiCandilo once again delivered the big hit of the inning with her second home run of the game which scored Touey and Newman.
Hitting the first home run of her career, Jill Schnall capped the scoring in the fifth with a three-run blast that plated Stevenson and Jordan Nieusma.
Striking out 10, walking two and allowing just three singles, Claire Fitzgerald (6-4) provided an impressive pitching performance of her own in Game 1. This marks the second time this season Fitzgerald has tied the single-game program strikeout record of 10.
Dayle Comerford led off the second with the second home run of her career to key a four-run frame for the Fords.
Newman's RBI-double added a run in the fourth to extend the Haverford advantage to 5-0 before the Fords tacked on two more in the sixth to complete the scoring.
Haverford heads to Widener University on Tuesday for the second of three-straight non-conference contests. The doubleheader begins at 4 p.m.