Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

MMACULATA, Pa. – Immaculata University celebrated its softball Senior Day on Friday by sweeping its doubleheader with Rosemont College. The Mighty Macs took the opener, 11-2 in six innings, and closed out with a 9-0 five-inning shutout in the nightcap.
 
Immaculata extended its Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) winning streak to seven as it upped its record to 19-13 overall and 16-2 in the league. Rosemont fell to 5-21, 3-15 CSAC.
 
In game one, Immaculata pitcher Nicole Curcione surrendered just five hits while the Mighty Macs banged out 14 of their own. Curcione also struck out eight Rosemont hitters.
 
After a slow start, Immaculata scored three runs in the third. Allison Zborowski doubled to begin the inning and Holly Schell got on base after being hit by a pitch. Melissa Ejk doubled into the right-centerfield gap to bring both Zborowski and Schell across home plate. Ejk then scored off Danielle Palmisano's single down the left field line.
 
Rosemont cut Immaculata's lead to 3-1 with one run in the fourth.
 
Immaculata scored twice more in the fifth inning, as the Mighty Macs loaded the bases with only one out. Samantha Strickland singled and Brittany Merkle and Jenny Barnholt followed with walks. Curcione then helped herself with a two-run single to left field.
 
The Ravens scored one more run in the top of the sixth to make the game 5-2.
 
However, Immaculata plated six runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut the game short as Zborowski hit a walk-off double down the left field line that brought Kenzie Brown and Curcione across the plate. The Mighty Macs had six of their 14 hits during the sixth inning. Schell, Ejk, Barnholt, Curcione and Brown all singled and later scored.
 
Zborowski was 3-for-3 with two RBI. Ejk, Curcione and Brown all collected two hits, and Curcione had four RBI.
 
In the second game, Meagan Fitzgerald tossed her sixth shutout of the season, allowing just three hits while striking out eight and walking two Ravens.
 
The Mighty Macs got on the scoreboard in the first inning as Strickland hit a sacrifice fly to score Schell, who had walked.
 
 Immaculata scored two more runs, both unearned, in the third. Fitzgerald singled and Patsy Murphy reached on an error to start the inning for the Mighty Macs. After the Ravens got two outs, Strickland hit a two RBI single that scored both runners.
 
Immaculata put six runs on the scoreboard in the fourth inning as it used two hits and capitalized on two Rosemont errors. Caitlyn Hudock, who reached on an error, scored on Christiana Donofry's triple. Donofry then scored on Rosemont's second error of the inning that allowed Fitzgerald to reach base.
 
Immaculata had the bases loaded courtesy of two walks and the error for Schell to hit a double that scored two runs. Strickland hit a sac fly to score the Mighty Macs' fifth run, and Schell scored the final run on a wild pitch.
 
Strickland was 1-for-1 with four RBI, and Schell was 1-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored. Donofry and Fitzgerald had one hit and one RBI each.
 
Immaculata travels to Neumann on Saturday for a 1 p.m. CSAC doubleheader with the Knights. Neumann is currently 18-0 in the CSAC and in first place in the league standings.