Hess Leads Softball Past Towson, 4-0, on Senior Day

Saturday, May 3

Newark, Del.

11 AM

University of Delaware

37-14, 0

Towson

23-29, 0

Towson

Delaware

Photo by: Michael Riccio

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NEWARK, Del. - University of Delaware softball's Morgan Hess celebrated Senior Day by shutting out Towson, 4-0, all while driving in all four runs of the game. The Blue Hens have won 13-straight CAA games and 23 conference games overall, the most all-time by a CAA team. After the game, Delaware honored its five-person senior class - Chloe Blantz, Graceyn Frost, Billie Kerwood, Mary Beth Cahalan, and Hess.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS

Hess pitched all seven innings, allowing just four hits. She also went 2-for-3 with two doubles and four RBIs.
Blantz went 2-for-3 with a run scored and stolen base.
Sydney Shaffer walked two times.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Shaffer threw a runner out at second base on an attempted stolen base to help Hess through a hitless first inning.
Delaware broke out in the second inning after Blantz and Shaffer reached base to start the frame, as Hess doubled off the wall for the first runs of the game.
Hess pitched a 1-2-3 fourth with a strikeout.
Hess then added insurance runs in the fifth with her second two-run double of the game. After another Shaffer walk and a Towson error, she and pinch runner Ellie Mulligan came around to score to give Delaware a 4-0 lead.
Hess struck out another hitter in a hitless sixth before finishing off the game in the seventh.

GAME NOTES

Hess pitched her CAA-leading sixth shutout of the season and third in CAA play. Her six shutouts are the eighth most in a season in program history.
Against Towson for her career, Hess hit .500/.545/1.150 (10-for-20) with three home runs, three doubles, 11 RBIs, and six runs scored while pitching to a 0.66 ERA (two earned runs in 21 innings pitched) and allowing just 12 hits.
Blantz extended her career-best hit streak to 11. She is hitting .512/.524/.659 over the streak with 21 hits and seven multi-hit games.
Shaffer upped her walk total for the season to 34, tied with Mandy Welch (2002) for third most in program history.
Delaware recorded its 18th shutout of the season, one shy of tying the single-season record set in 2000. It's the most by a CAA team since James Madison had 28 in 2017.
Delaware's pitching staff set a new program record for strikeouts in a season at 334, moving past the previous record of 330 in 2006.
Delaware has won 23 conference games, the most in the CAA in the league's history.
Delaware's 13-game conference win streak is the fifth longest active streak in Division I, only behind Grand Canyon (17), Howard (15), McNeese (15), and Marist (14).
Over its 13-game conference win streak, Delaware is hitting .391/.444/.637 with 109 runs scored and 16 home runs while pitching to a 1.09 ERA with just 16 runs allowed.
Delaware has won six-straight games against Towson, its longest streak against the Tigers since winning seven-straight from 1983-1986.