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Message: [QUOTE="Orangeyes, post: 754016, member: 34"] Saturday SU played LeMoyne at the stadium and beat the Dolphins 9-2. Sydney O' Hara hit a deep, towering home run said to be one of, if not the longest home runs ever hit at the complex. LeMoyne has a tough to hit left handed pitcher who limited the Orange to 2 runs last fall. This time, however, she was not available due to an injury. On Sunday Syracuse defeated Binghamton 12-4 on a cold, windy, overcast 52 degree day. Most spectator's were wrapped in blankets and wore hoodies and ski caps. That's Central New York for you, on Friday the weather was ideal for both playing and viewing and you didn't mind staying to till the end. That was not the case yesterday. Some of the highlights of Sunday's play: Cleanup hitter Jasmine Watson hit a homerun over the scoreboard in left field, had a triple and a single in the contest. Watson has been tearing it up this fall. She's also fielding her position well. The pitchers who performed in the circle were Lindsay Taylor, Jocelyn Cater and Sydney O' Hara in that order. Of the three, O' Hara had the strongest performance. She had command of her pitches mixing them up nicely and staying ahead on the counts. Taylor stuck with breaking balls exclusively, varying the speeds on them. She gave up three of the four runs in her three innings. Cater then came in, in the 4th inning. She seemed to struggle with her control, ran a lot of counts, hit a batter and gave up the other run. Jocelyn's curve and fast ball were un-hitable, however, she kept throwing a screwball which she had trouble locating for strikes. In both Taylor and Caters cases, this being fall, perhaps they were told to work on those pitches in game settings. Another hitting star for the two games that I personally witnessed (I was at the SU-Tulane game on Saturday) was junior Mary Dombroski. On Friday, as I mentioned she hit two home runs and had a single. On Sunday she hit a home run, a single and a two run triple which she went the opposite way with down the right field line. IMHO she is the most improved player on the team. Sydney O' Hara continued her fine hitting providing the team with a three run homer and a single. She is an exciting addition to this team. Danielle Chitkowski has a knack for getting the run home from third with less than two outs. Yesterday she had the third sac fly that I have seen her have, in fact I called it before she produced the RBI. One concerning thing happened in the middle innings. Our shortstop Corinne Ozanne came up limping after taking a swing. Ozanne has a history of knee troubles and she's seemingly just a wrong twist away from re-injury. Hope it was something minor. In the twenty innings I have seen she only had one hit. Last year she provided a lot of pop in the lineup. To my eye she is not being selective enough and going for her pitch. Another area of concern is catching. Nicole Lundstrom is a true freshman and will no doubt get stronger between now and February when the tournament season gets under way. She had trouble with her throws to second base and Binghamton took advantage every chance they got. Syracuse wraps up fall ball on the road these nest two weekends. This Saturday at Cornell where they play a double-header against Cornell then Colgate game times TBA. On Saturday, October 6 they are on the road again where they play Binghamton at 1 PM. [/QUOTE]

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