TUTTLE IS LIBERTY LEAGUE CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK

April 19: Saint senior Heather Tuttle earned her second Liberty League Player of the Week honor for her accomplishments in last weeks games.

She hit .526 with 10 hits in 19 at bats in a six-game week and drove in three runs. Hit her fourth home run of the season, tying the SLU single season and career home run records. Had a .684 slugging percentage, a .571 on-base percentage. Had one erorr in 27 chances for a .963 fielding percentage. On the mound she went 0-2, but had a 0.38 earned run average allowing just one earned run in 18.2 innings with 11 strikeouts.

RPI SWEEPS SOFTBALL TWINBILL WITH SAINTS

April 17: A trio of Rensselaer pitchers limited St. Lawrence to two runs in 14 innings as the Red Hawks ran their win streak to five straight with a 7-0, 3-2 Liberty League softball sweep at Saints Field Sunday afternoon.

Nikki Dooley pitched a two hit shutout for her sixth win of the year in game one, striking out three and Amy Huling earned her sixth win of the year in the nightcap and Katie Mahoney picked up her first save in the 3-2 win.

RPI improves to 17-2-1 overall and 4-0 in the Liberty League. St. Lawrence is now 8-14 overall and 1-5 in the Liberty League.

The Red Hawks opened first game scoring in the top of the second when Huling doubled to center and scored on Mahoney’s single down the right field line. The Red Hawks made it a 2-0 game in the fifth when Dooley reached on an error, was sacrificed to second and scored when Lizzie Vitaliano’s curving line drive to center went off the glove of centerfielder Ashley Porter for a double.

The Red Hawks broke it open in the top of the fifth scoring five runs, all after two out and all unearned. Stephanie Vanek had a run-scoring single and Katherine Valenta hit a bases loaded single which cleared the bases when it got past the Saint outfielder and rolled to the fence.

Tuttle took the loss on the mound for the Saints, allowing just one earned run. Tuttle and Rebekah Howrigan had the Saint hits.

The Red Hawks took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first in the nightcap as Vitaliano walked, was sacrificed to second, moved to third on an error and scored on Huling’s two-out single through the left side of the infield. Huling helped her own cause again in the top of the third with a run-scoring single after Valenta had doubled in a run.

The Saints got one back in the bottom of the third, stringing four straight singles with Melissa Pittelli’s bloop hit to center driving in Porter with the Saints’ first run of the doubleheader. The Saints threatened in the bottom of the fifth, loading the bases on two walks and a hit batter with no out, but reliever Mahoney struck out the side to end the threat.

The Saints cut the RPI lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth when Sheila Rodriguez was hit by a pitch. Runner Erin Lloyd went to second on a wild pitch, to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch.

Ava Pickering took the loss for the Saints and Jess McPherson pitched four innings of one-hit relief. Porter went two for two and Tuttle had two hits in three trips for SLU, which will play at Hamilton on Wednesday.