BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – After nine scoreless innings, Madison Grubb (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway) broke the deadlock with a bases-clearing double and Makenna Patterson (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) put the bow on a 10-inning complete game shutout to give the HFU softball team a 3-0 game two triumph at Bridgeport on Saturday. 
 
That salvaged a split as the Purple Knights had prevailed 3-4 in an eight-inning game one.  
 
Individual Highlights

• The 10 innings pitched were a new career-high for Patterson, while the shutout was the third of her career, including her second in extra innings and second of the year
  • She limited UB to just six hits while striking out six against one walk and one hit-by-pitch
• Grubb's three RBIs were a new season-best, while the double was her second base knock of the nightcap
  • She also had an RBI in the opener 
• Angelina Bresnen (Morrisville, Pa./Conwell Egan) had multiple hits in both contests, finishing the day 4-for-9
• Rylee Hobel (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) had multiple base knocks in game two, adding a crucial base on balls and eventual run scored in the 10th 
• Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) had a quality start in game one, scattering six hits over seven-plus innings with five strikeouts and three walks

 
Inside the Box Score

• The Tigers outhit Bridgeport 16-12 over the course of the doubleheader

 
How it Happened 
Game Two

• With the international tiebreaker in affect, the 10th started with a runner on second
  • The frame actually began with an out, but Alexis Letizia (Toms River, N.J./Donovan Catholic) singled with one away and after the second out was recorded, Hobel came through with her two-out walk to bring Grubb to the plate
• Patterson came out and finished what she started in the bottom-half, getting the first out on a fielder's choice before ending the performance with back-to-back punch-outs
• Both teams had runners reach scoring position in the first, with Bresnen before Bridgeport threatened in both of its first two at-bats
• Neither team would do so again until the bottom of the fifth, when Lauren Hagy (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) preserved the scoreless affair by throwing out a Purple Knight at the plate from left field
• Hobel, Bresnen and Sam Ciasullo (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) all singled to load the bases with one out in the sixth, only for it to end on an inning-ending double play
• Letizia ended both the sixth and eighth by throwing out a baserunner trying to steal second
• Grubb advanced to second in the eighth via a two-out single and wild pitch, only to be stranded 
• The international tiebreaker began in the ninth, but neither team could advance the runner to third as Patterson worked her second 1-2-3 frame

Game One

• Grubb also came through with the two-out, game-tying single in the top of the seventh of the opener
  • This came after Maria Leedom (Levittown, Pa./Neshaminy (Shippensburg)) singled with one out and moved up to second on a Hobel sacrifice bunt
• Tidaback stranded the bases loaded in the bottom-half to send the game to extras, where Bridgeport would prevail in the eighth following a leadoff double
• HFU jumped out to a 2-0 lead thanks to four hits in the second, the first three of which were back-to-back-to-back by Bresnen (single), Carlie Miller (Hermitage, Pa./Hickory) (double) and Letizia (RBI single) with one away 
  • Leedom made it 2-0 on an RBI fielder's choice
• Tidaback retired the first 13 she faced before a one-out single in the fifth, which eventually led to UB tying it up after an RBI double and sacrifice fly
• Following a scoreless top of the sixth, three singles in the bottom-half gave the Purple Knights a 2-3 advantage entering the seventh 

 
Up Next
Holy Family returns home to host Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) leader Wilmington on Tuesday at 2 p.m.