PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Using home runs from Emma Schafer (Mission Viejo, CA/El Toro) and Alexandra Monteleone (Cold Spring, NY/Haldane) to break the games open, the Pace University softball team swept a Sunday doubleheader against Holy Family.

With both wins coming via the run rule, the Setters outscored the Tigers 21-5 over the day's 10 innings. Pace improves to 13-18 with the sweep, and have now won four straight games.

Game One Recap: Pace 11, Holy Family 3
In what would prove to be the theme throughout the day, the Setters struck first in the opener by capitalizing on a Holy Family miscue. With the bases loaded, Annie Carberry (Colorado Springs, CO/Pine Creek) singled to drive home Arielle Acosta (Union City, CA/Moreau Catholic High School) and Niyah Brown (Chino, CA/Chino Hills), her team-leading 20^th and 21^st RBIs of the year. A throwing error by Julia Vizza allowed Briana Ryan (Wilmington, CA/Carson) to also score on the play, giving Pace a 3-0 lead in the first.

The Setters hung a six spot in the third inning to firmly take command of the contest. After Aby Brambila (Newbury Park, CA/Newbury Park) reached on a fielder's choice to score Ryan, Schafer launched a grand slam for her first homer of the season that pushed the Blue and Gold lead to 9-0.

The Tigers would finally get to Pace starter Kate Dolinski (Fort Langley, B.C./Yale Secondary) in the fourth, scratching out a pair of runs. It would be the only blemish on the freshman's statline for the day, as Dolinski allowed four hits and three walks over her four innings of work, striking out three and earning her fifth win of the year.

The Setters reclaimed their nine-run lead in the bottom of the frame thanks to RBI singles from Lindsey Ah Soon (Ewa Beach, HI/Kamehameha Kapalama) and Brambila. Maxibel Garcia (Passaic, NJ/Paterson Charter School for Science and Technology) closed out things in the fifth, allowing a solo home run while striking out a pair.

Game Two Recap: Pace 10, Holy Family 2
Following a scoreless first inning on both sides, the Tigers would plate the first run of the day's second contest in the second inning against Emma Bernet (Baldwinsville, NY/Charles W Baker). Like Dolinski before her, that would be the only trouble the junior would face in the circle, as Bernet allowed four hits through her four innings of work and striking out two to move to 5-7 on the year.

Holy Family's lead would be short lived, as the Setters made the Tigers pay for three errors in the bottom half of the inning. The big hit in the inning came off an infield single from Emma Carruth (Torrance, CA/Beverly Hills) that scored NancyAnn Revilla (Staten Island, NY/Port Richmond) and Monteleone as the team's third and fourth runs of the frame.

Monteleone would deliver the big break of the game one inning later, hitting a three-run blast to left-center field to put Pace ahead 7-1. Pace tacked on two more in the fourth as Carberry hit an RBI double to score Carruth, while the senior first baseman ended up scoring on Holy Family's fifth error of the game and ninth of the day.

The Tigers would get a run back in the top of the fifth off of MacKenzie Garrick (South River, NJ/South River), but Carruth's RBI single in the bottom half gave Pace the eight-run lead to initiate the run rule once again.

Up Next
Pace's 11-game homestand continues on Wednesday. The Setters will host Southern Connecticut State for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.