Pace Sports Week 1-Piece 2

   If a physic was to tell Setters softball coach Claudia Stabile that her team would score nine runs that she would take that.

   If that same physic were to tell Stabile that her team would surrender twelve runs in a game that she would be a tad less than thrilled.

  The Setters dropped the second game of their double header against the Assumption Greyhounds 12-9 earlier this afternoon. The Setters defeat marks the third game in a row they have lost.

  “Obviously I’m not thrilled,” Stabile said. “We played well enough to win for about four innings, but we could not keep it up.”

  Sophomore Lana Buchbinder drove in three runs in the bottom of the third inning that resulted in seven runs scored. Buchbinder has fourteen runs batted in against opponents form the Northeast-10 this season.

  “I would not say that there was any correlation between my RBIs against conference opponents and my RBI’s against the other teams,” Buchbinder said. “It is not like I’m trying to do better against conference opponents or anything, I’m trying to help the team beat everybody.”

  Today the Setters could not topple the Greyhounds offense. The Greyhounds had a big fifth inning for the second game in a row, when they scored five runs to cut an 8-2 lead down to an 8-7 deficit.

 Setters starter Kayla Hill managed four and one third innings and got shelled for seven runs on twelve hits.  Hill said that she was disappointed in her start after starting off well.

 “I felt really good at the start of the game,” Hill said. “It was just I suddenly didn’t have it in the fifth inning, I am pretty upset with the performance I put out today.”

 Hill was not the only starting pitcher to struggle. The Setters were able to rough up Assumption starter Chelsea Duro for seven runs in just two and two thirds innings. Still, the Greyhounds were able to keep Pace with the Setters offensively.

  The Greyhounds took the lead in the top of the sixth inning. Assumption’s run was sparked by two errors in the field by third baseman Hana Wright. 

 “I can’t help but feel partially responsible,” Wright said. “I know that I messed up, but I guess I have to just learn from this game and move on.”

 Pace will get the chance to end their bad run on Good Friday. The Setters will ship up to Boston to take on UMass-Lowell in the first two games of an eight game road trip.