Arianna Carreno's seventh inning single scored the winning run and completed a comeback from three runs down as the Chestnut Hill College women's softball team salvaged a split with Nyack college with a 10-9 win in the second game of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader.

The win was also the Griffins' first conference win of the season.  Chestnut Hill dropped the opener 9-8.  The Griffins are now 7-28 overall and 1-10 in league play.  Nyack is 6-21 overall and 2-12 in league play.

Carreno's (Pompano Beach, Fla.) hit capped off a day where the freshman outfielder recorded six hits over the two game series while driving in six runs.  She went 3-for-5 with a home run and four RBI in game two and 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI in the opener.

Madison Petroski (Sicklerville, N.J.) also had three hits in game two and picked up the win in relief, allowing just one earned run over 6.1 innings to improve to 5-9 on the season.  Steph Tonuci (Barrington, N.J.), Samantha Toro (Brick, N.J.) and Peyton Baldwin (Conshohocken, Pa.) had two hits apiece in the game two win.

Trailing 9-6 heading into their final at-bat, Toro delivered a one-out single and Baldwin a double into centerfield to put two runners in scoring position.  Santina Arena (Brooklyn, N.Y.) then hit a two-run single into centerfield to score Toro and Baldwin and cut the lead to 9-8.  Tonuci was hit by a pitch and Petroski followed with a single to plate Arena with the tying run.  Carreno then delivered the game winning hit down the left field line as Tonuci raced home with the winning run.

Nyack had jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning of the game before the Griffins got two back on a two-run home run by Carreno in the bottom of the first.  The Warriors added two unearned tuns in the second inning to lead 8-2.  Tonuci's two-out single plated Victoria Grillo (Staten Island, N.Y.) to close the gap to 8-3 in the bottom half of the second.

One inning later, Grillo hit a sacrifice fly to score Carreno and make the score 9-4 and toro's RBI single in the fifth closed the deficit to 9-5.  A fielding error in the sixth brought Chestnut Hill within three before the final at-bat heroics in the seventh.

In the opener it was the Warriors who scored the go-ahead runs in their final at-bat to earn a 9-8 win putting a damper on a rally one-half inning earlier that saw the Griffins retake the lead after trailing 7-4.

Eight different players had at least one hit for the Griffins in the opener with Carreno, Kayla Rolon (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Skyler Cunningham (Covina, Calif.) and Baldwin recording three hits apiece.  Lily Reid (Texas City, Texas) took the loss in relief.

The Griffins strung together five hits in the sixth inning to score four runs and lead 8-7 with Carreno doubling home Tonuci with the go-ahead run. Reid doubled and scored on Grillo's single who scored on Tonuci's one-out single.  Petroski's RBI groundout scored Baldwin with the tying run and Carreno followed with a double to score Tonuci with the go-ahead run at the time.

Three innings earlier the Warriors erased a 4-3 deficit with four unearned runs, highlighted by a three run home run by Kayla Rattigan.  Chestnut Hill had built the lead with three runs in the first and another in the second

The Chestnut Hill College Women's Softball Team returns to action on Monday April 18, 2022 with a conference doubleheader at Holy Family University.  The Tigers play their games at Bensalem High School and first pitch on Monday will be at 3:00 p.m.