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St. John's Dominates Wagner, 10-2, in Six Innings
3/8/2017 12:00:00 AM | Softball
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QUEENS, N.Y. -- Capped off by a three-run, walk-off homer by Savannah Warren in the sixth, the St. John's softball team (11-8) used a six-run first inning to power past Wagner, 10-2, in its home opener, giving the Johnnies their sixth win in seven games.
Junior McKenzie Murray was dominant in the circle, allowing no runs and only three hits over 5.0 innings to improve her record to 5-0 on the season.
Warren smacked her first home run of 2017 to finish the day off with two hits, two runs and three RBIs. Kaitlin Mattera recorded two hits, a walk and drove in two runs for her fifth multi-hit performance of the season. Gretchen Bowie went 2-for-2 with two RBIs and a run, while Brittany Garcia notched a pair of hits, scored twice and drove in a run. Christina Melendez scored and drove in a run as the sophomore bumped up her hitting streak to nine games with a base knock in the first.
The Johnnies wasted no time jumping on the Seahawks in the first using seven hits to put up a six spot on the board. Melendez followed up Hannah Anderson's single with a double to right center to get the rally going. After Garcia's base knock made it 2-0, Mattera extended her hitting steak to 10 games on a two-run single to right. Two batters later, Bowie drilled an RBI double off the wall in right-center before Monique Landini drove in her seventh run on a single to right.
Another run in the third pushed the Red Storm lead to seven as Bowie plated her second run of the game and team leading 14th of the season on a sacrifice fly to left.
After stranding a pair of runners in the second on a called third strike, Murray would go on to retire nine straight and 10 of the last 11 batters she faced through five scoreless.
Wagner (0-6) cut the deficit to five runs in the sixth, taking advantage of an error to open the frame and score a pair of runs with two outs on Grace Kramer who finished the game off for the Red Storm.
St. John's closed out the contest in six innings when Warren crushed a three-run bomb to left-center to clinch the Johnnies second five-inning win of the year. Next up for the Red Storm is the St. John's Invitational on March 17-19. The Johnnies will host Manhattan, Stony Brook, Hofstra and Fairleigh Dickinson twice over three days.
