DePaul University Athletics
DePaul University
Georgetown
Connolly's Gem Leads DePaul Past Georgetown
4/11/2015 12:00:00 AM | SOFTBALL
Box Score: DePaul 2, Georgetown 0Â 
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mary Connolly put on her best performance in the circle this season as the DePaul softball team shutout Georgetown, 2-0. The Blue Demons (14-17, 6-0 BIG EAST) stayed perfect in conference play behind a seven-hit outing at the plate.
Connolly threw her first shutout of the season, allowing only four total base runners in seven innings. The senior standout also hurled a season-best four strikeouts in the process.
At the plate, DePaul collected seven hits from six different players. Connolly led the offense with a 2-for-4 showing with one RBI. Morgan Maize tallied the other RBI as the leadoff hitter.
Maize led off the scoring with a solo shot to begin the game in the top of the first inning. The Blue Demons got two more runners on when Kali Gardner and Nicole Pihl drew back-to-back walks but were both runners were left stranded.
Georgetown (12-23, 2-6) squandered its biggest chance in the home half of the first when it left two runners on base.
Connolly kept the Hoya bats at-bay the rest of the game, scattering two hits in the final six innings.
The Winfield, Ill. native helped her own cause in the top of the sixth when she smacked her 39th career home run -- a solo shot -- to make it a 2-0 score line in favor of DePaul.
Georgetown went down in order in the sixth and seventh to elevate the Blue Demons to their sixth-straight BIG EAST win.
Notes: This was the 11th meeting between the programs all-time... DePaul has shutout Georgetown in two of the last three matchups... with two home runs in the game, the 2015 Blue Demons move into sixth all-time in home runs for a single-season with 42... Mary Connolly passes Michelle Zeiger (1993-96) for sixth on the program's all-time list of total bases with 353 in her career... DePaul shutout an opponent for the first time this season... Morgan Maize and Connolly each extended their streaks of reaching base safely to nine games.
