Middletown, Conn. - Junior Meaghan Dendy tossed a one-hitter, yielding one unearned run, and scored two runs herself to pace the  Wesleyan University Cardinals to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Trinity College Bantams in softball action this afternoon.  Wesleyan improves to 15-17 and the Bantams fall to 14-15.

Wesleyan scored single runs in each of the first three innings to pull out to a 3-0 lead.  Dendy scored the opening run after beating out an infield single, moving to second on a passed ball, to third on a misplayed infield grounder and scoring on a groundout by freshman Alex Kral. The Cardinals got their second run when freshman Chrissy Bello singled to left, was sacrificed to second and scored on a double to right-center by freshman Sam Epstein.  It was Wesleyan's only earned run of the game.  In the third, Dendy reached on a throwing error and eventually scored on a wild pitch.

Trinity broke up Dendy's no-hit bid in the 5th when junior Jessica Tait hit a curving double to left.  She moved to third on an infield error by Wesleyan.  With runners at second and third, Trinity's Melanie Orphanos put down a bunt that was picked up by the catcher who turned to tag out Tait trying to score.  Orphanos then continued to second base and when the throw there was late, junior Patricia Cipicchio, who had reached on the earlier error and went to third on the bunt, raced home with the lone Trinity run.  The Cardinals got the run back in the sixth when sophomore Talia Bernstein singled and was replaced by pinch runner sophomore Lily Thalheimer.  Bello then hit a hard single to center which got by the outfielder, allowing Thalheimer to score and Bello to end up at second.

Dendy faced the minimum number of batter in five of the seven innings.  She issued one walk, hit one batter and struck out four in raising her record to 10-7.  Senior Gabrielle Sergi gave up six hits and only one earned run with a walk and two strikeouts.  Trinity third baseman senior Stacy Hathcox had nine assists in the game and was responsible for throwing out nearly every Wesleyan player once in the outing.  This was just the eighth win for Wesleyan over Trinity in 41 all-time meetings since 1987 but the third in the last five contests between the squads.