FAIRFIELD, CONN. (April 7, 2015)—The Sacred Heart softball team fell to Stony Brook 12-6 in nine innings Tuesday afternoon at Pioneer Park after the Seawolves made a comeback evening the score at three to send the game into extra innings. The loss drops the Pioneers to 6-18 on the season, while Stony Brook improves to 13-11.

Kelyn Filmore (Simi Valley, Calif.) went 3-for-3 at the plate knocking two doubles and scoring a pair of runs for the Pioneers, one of which came in SHU's three-run second innings. Victoria D'Addario (Lincoln Park, N.J.) hit a single down the left field line with one out to become the Pioneers' first baserunner of the game. Back-to-back walks issued to Hannah Ford (New Fairfield, Conn.) and Fillmore loaded the bases for Dani Warnken (Bayport, N.Y.) who made it two out as she looked at the third strike. But Sacred Heart rallied with two down as Jenn Robillard (Plainville, Mass.) worked a walked pushing D'Addario across the plate. Seawolves' starter Allison Cukrov issued her fourth walk of the inning to Kate Nadler (Southbury, Conn.) giving SHU a 2-0 lead. Sacred Heart's designated player Andrea Sidor (North Vancouver, British Columbia) struck the final blow of the inning with a single through the left side that scored Fillmore.

Cukrov worked through the next two innings only allowing SHU one hit, a Fillmore double, before being replaced by Jane Sallen, who came in to pitch the bottom of the fifth. The junior managed to silence the Pioneer bats while the Seawolves got on the board with one run in the top of the third off SHU starter Jamie Carlson (Corona, Calif.), and two more in the fifth. With two outs that innings, Adrianna Mallory (Pine Bush, N.Y.) was called in to get out of a jam with the tying run on third. The first batter she faced hit an infield single scoring the runner at third and leveling the game at three runs a piece.

With the score even at three, the game headed into extra innings. Stony Brook picked up two runs in the top of the eighth, and the Pioneers quickly answered with two of their own.  After coming in to pinch hit in the bottom of the eighth, Kacie Wentworth (Canton, N.Y.) took over in the circle for SHU. The senior took the loss after giving up seven runs in the top of the ninth that Sacred Heart couldn't recover from.

The Pioneers take to the field again on Thursday when they host cross-town rival Fairfield at 3:30 p.m.