BROOKVILLE, N.Y. – The LIU Post softball team closed a historic 2019 regular season with a sweep of Queens College on Sunday, April 28. The Pioneers matched the program record with 44 regular season wins, equaling the win total from the 2013 regular season.
 
Having already clinched the regular season championship in the ECC, the Green and Gold finish the year with a 22-2 mark in league play and will host the conference championship for the second-consecutive season.
 
The LIU Post pitching staff allowed just one earned run on the day, senior Hannah Olshevski allowed just three hits and one unearned run during four innings in game two and junior Katie Humhej fanned six batters and allowed one run to earn the win in game one. Sophomore Hanna Finkelstein added one scoreless inning of work.
 
Juniors Allie Laird and Megan Sneeden notched three hits apiece and sophomore Patricia Dun drove in three runs. Junior Abbey Fortin belted a home run and freshman Jayna Rios finished 2-for-2 with a double and two runs batted in.
 
Game One: LIU Post 3, Queens 1
 
After Queens scored the first run of the game during the top of the second inning, Dun responded with an RBI-single down the right-field line to level the scoring, 1-1. Fortin connected on a 1-0 pitch during the third inning, sending a line-drive homer over the fence in right field to give the Pioneers the lead. The dinger proved to be the difference as the Pioneers never relinquished the lead.
 
During the sixth inning, senior Ashley Melendez drove in a third run with a groundout to push the Pioneers ahead 3-1. Humhej set the Knights down in order during the seventh inning to help LIU Post take the opener.
 
Game Two: LIU Post 10, Queens 1 (5 Inn.)
 
It was all LIU Post during game two as the offense compiled 10 hits and 10 runs in four at-bats. Despite stranding two runners on base during the top of the first, Dun ripped a line drive to right field to score the game's first run. Two batters later, Seader roped a double just inside the first-base bag to score two more runs and the Pioneers added another two runs to take a 5-0 lead after two innings.
 
LIU post scored twice during the third inning to take a 7-0 advantage. Queens scored one run on an RBI-double in what proved to be its only run of the game. Klaiber launched an RBI-double off the wall in right field during the fourth inning and Rios drove in two more runs with a double in the right-center field gap to put the Pioneers ahead by nine runs, earning the mercy rule victory.
 
The ECC Championship commences on Wednesday, May 1 when the Pioneers host No. 4 seed New York Institute of Technology in a single game. More information about the championship will be available on www.liupostpioneers.com early this week.