Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Philadelphia, Pa. – (3/16/2016) – Racing the sunlight after a 20-minute rain delay in game one, Chestnut Hill College scored a pair of Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) victories, 8-2 and 2-1 (5 innings), in today's league opener with Goldey-Beacom College. In game one, the heavy-hitting of senior designated player Laura Eidam (South Salem, N.Y.) brought home three runs while junior pitcher Briannen Holloway (Corona, Calif.) earned her first win of the season. Game two finished in a little over an hour with senior pitcher Kaitlyn Johnson (New Boston, N.H.) earing her second win while a first-inning lead-off home run from senior left fielder Nicole Carney (Ontario, Calif.) and a third-inning double from junior shortstop Corie Apodaca (Ontario, Calif.) plated the two runs needed to win a five-inning contest.
 
A pair of singles led off Goldey-Beacom College's (2-6, 0-4) first at-bat of the afternoon. A sacrifice and a strike out later, the first Lightning run scored on a wild pitch, 1-0. Chestnut Hill College (3-17, 2-0) responded in the bottom half of the first inning with a Carney single to left center, a single to short from senior catcher Megan Kehr (Exton, Pa.), an errant throw, and a Apodaca sacrifice fly scoring the first of two tallies, 1-1. The second run came home after another Lightning error and an Eidam double to center field, 2-1. A one-out home run from freshman right fielder Ariel Magee (North Cape May, N.J.), the first of her collegiate career, scored the third Griffin run in the second inning, 3-1. And a third-inning, two-out single from senior second baseman Julie Heaton (Berlin, N.J.) scored the fourth, 4-1, before four Griffins scored on five fifth-inning hits. The highlight of the big inning was Eidam's two-run homer to left field, which was preceded by a single from senior third baseman Sofia Cedrone (Philadelphia, Pa.) that plated two runs after a pair of ill-timed Lightning throws, 8-1. A sixth-inning run brought the Lightning one run closer, 8-2, but it crossed unearned as Holloway surrendered only one earned run on five hits. She struck out five in the victory (1-7).
 
Pressed for time, Carney's lead-off home run got the Scarlet and Gold on the scoreboard early in game two, 1-0. They added another in the third inning when Kehr's one-out single manufactured a run with an Apodaca double to right field and a Cedrone sacrifice fly to left field, 2-0. Johnson took care of the rest, working through seven hits to only surrender a fourth-inning tally on a one-out single down the left field line, 2-1. She struck out three in the win (2-6).
 
The Griffins continue with their CACC schedule on Saturday, March 19, when they visit Concordia College (NY) for a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader.