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Brockport bounced from SUNYACS by Saturday Sweep By Laura Luettger The College at Brockport’s women’s softball SUNYAC run ended Saturday, May 3 with a 2-0 loss to No. 2 Cortland State and a 10-6 loss to No. 3 Buffalo State. The softball team had opened the SUNYAC series with two wins May 1 and 2 over Buffalo State, with a 4-0 victory, and then over Cortland, with a 6-0 win. In the first round of SUNYAC play, fourth-seeded Brockport took an early 2-0 lead with back-to-back doubles by juniors Rachel Maxon and Courtney Turchan. Hilary Dank then hit in a run with a single. Brockport didn’t score again until the fifth inning when freshman Melissa Boyle drove in two more runs when her single went under the glove of Buffalo State’s first baseman. Boyle had two of Brockport’s six hits. Throughout the game, Buffalo State managed to get runners in scoring position in both the fifth and sixth innings, and advanced runners to second base in the sixth. Freshman Stephanie Geer had six strikeouts to prevent the Bengals from scoring. The Bengals had an opportunity to score in the sixth when Heather Re hit a two-out single deep to left-center, but the runner on second was thrown out at home. The second game of the series made Brockport the only undefeated team at the time in the series, with a 6-0 win over Cortland. Cortland defeated No. 1-seeded Plattsburgh in an elimination game Friday, May 2. Brockport senior Kalie Peters’ home run in the bottom of the fourth inning allowed three players to score, extending Brockport’s lead to 4-0. The first run of the game was scored by Turchan, who was driven in by a single from Lindsay Szymanski. In the bottom of the fifth, Turchan walked and was then driven home by Dank’s fourth home run of the season, making the final score 6-0. During the game, Geer allowed no runs on five hits, even with runners on third in the first, second, fourth and seventh innings. She walked one and struck out five in the game, improving her record to 13-3 on the season. Cortland’s chances to score came in the first, before an infield pop-up ended the inning, and then again in the second, with runners on second and third before Geer struck out batters. In the seventh, Cortland players were on second and third again, but a soft groundout ended the game. Brockport’s chances at the SUNYAC title disappeared after their second loss May 3, the first loss to Cortland, 2-1. The game-winning run came in the top of the fifth, with Brockport only connecting for four hits on the whole game. Freshman Stephanie Geer allowed two runs during the game, one of which was earned, and she struck out two. Both Brockport and Buffalo State scored one run in the sixth, and Brockport scored once more in the seventh, making the final score 10-6. Junior Rachel Maxon was 3-for-4 hitting and Rachael Zimmerman had three hits, going 3-for-3. Zimmerman also scored one run and batted one run in. Freshman Amanda Smith went 2-for-2, earning two RBIs. Buffalo State went on to play Cortland, dropping the decision to the Red Dragons, 3-1, in the SUNYAC championship game Sunday, May 4. |
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