Softball’s Record Breaking Performance Rewrites History
The Suffolk softball team put a record-breaking performance together Sunday afternoon as the Rams sent eight balls over the fence in a 17-6 win over Lasell.
BOSTON – The Suffolk softball team put a record-breaking performance together Sunday afternoon as the Rams sent eight balls over the fence in a 17-6 win over Lasell.
The eight jacks are the most in Suffolk history, upstaging the previously set number of seven set April 6, 2007 in a 21-5 against Emmanuel. The eight homers also mark the most under Jaclyn Davis and by a GNAC team and by a NCAA Division III squad in 2017. The Rams land in a second on the all-time NCAA DIII list for homers in a single outing, becoming just the fifth program in NCAA DIII history to produce eight dingers in a single game.
Six Rams combined to accomplish the record feat in Madison Eucalitto, Jaclyn Flint, Devlin Frost, Jill Pulek and Delaney Sylvester. Eucalitto punched the first blast of her collegiate career, while Pulek and Sylvester each went yard twice.
The group of Flint, Pulek, Frost and Eucalitto each sent a shot in the bottom of the fourth to tie the NCAA DIII record of the most homers in a single inning. Suffolk is the first program to knock four rockets in a single inning since 2013 when Oswego State did so March 29, 2013 and the Rams are just one of three squads to ever hit four knocks in a single inning.
Overall, Suffolk has produced multiple homeruns for the sixth time this season. Pulek and Sylvester's two-homerun performances mark the second- and first-time, respectively, that the designated hitter and catcher had multi-homer outings this season. The pair already have marked their places individually on in Suffolk's season and career annals. The sophomore and junior each own 17 four baggers in their collegiate career to sit in a tie for second all-time on the Rams' career list. Pulek's nine goners this season lands third on the list, while the duo each put eight apiece out of the park last season to tie for fourth.
Suffolk enters its final regular season week tonight, Monday, April 24 as it hosts Mt. Ida at East Boston Memorial Park. First pitch is slated for 6:30 p.m.