SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — The Dominican University of California softball team split its final doubleheader of the season, winning 3-0 and falling 2-0 versus Academy of Art on Saturday at Penguin Field.
The split gave the Penguins (19-32) a 16-16 record in PacWest play, which guaranteed Dominican sole possession of sixth place and a top-half conference finish. Dominican also went a dominant 8-4 against its Bay Area counterparts in PacWest play (ART U 6-6, NDNU 6-6, HNU 4-8).
Senior
Ashlyn Moriarity finished on a high note with the complete-game shutout in game one. The righty pitcher, who rebounded after seeing her junior season derailed by Tommy John surgery, scattered eight hits and walked just one in a dominant final performance. Only one ART U (17-31-1/13-17 PacWest) player reached as far as third base. That came in the first inning but Moriarity induced back-to-back popups to get out of the early jam. Senior
Tori Johnson led off the bottom of the first with a full-count walk, then promptly scored on
Catlyn Cavender's RBI double to left center. Dominican stranded a pair of runners in the inning and left the bases loaded in the third inning.
Katelyn Harden took the first pitch she saw in the fifth inning and sent it over the left field fence for her first homer of the season and a Harden RBI double in the sixth plated senior
Marissa Cordisco.
In game two, ART U used back-to-back singles to start the game and manufacture a run for an early 1-0 lead. Samantha Klune added an insurance run in the six with an RBI single to left center. The Penguins rallied in the bottom of the seventh but came up short. With two outs,
Emily Ginn walked, Cordisco reached on an error, and senior
Sarah McKenzie walked but ART U's Hunter Allen got the groundout to end the game.
Gaby Katafias (7-9) took the loss for Dominican despite allowing just five hits with three strikeouts.
Moriarity, coming off of
PacWest Co-Pitcher of the Week honors, ends her career as Dominican's leader in the Division II era with 26 career wins, 106 appearances, 84 games started, 8 shutouts, 465.1 innings pitched, 196 strikeouts, 51 striekouts looking, 37 complete games, and 7 strikeouts in a single game.
Johnson ends her career as Dominican's leader in the Division II era with 206 games played and started, 659 at bats, 195 hits, as well as most hits (4), doubles (2), and triples (1) in a single game.
McKenzie posted a 1.000 fielding percentage for her career. Cordisco is second behind McKenzie with a .989 fielding percentage and posted a 1.000 fielding percentage as a senior.
