Softball Opens Home Schedule with DH Split against Yale

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By Bean Town Times Reports

Mar 23, 2023

Opening the home schedule, the Boston University softball team recorded a doubleheader split against Yale with a 13-0 run-rule victory and 2-1 loss on Tuesday afternoon.

The Terriers (20-7) tabulated 11 hits in the first game but were limited to three in the second by the Bulldogs (6-13), as they faced off for the first time in seven years and in Boston for the first time since 1996.

Junior Kayla Roncin compiled a team-high four hits along with four RBIs. Classmate Lauren Nett tallied three hits, and senior Caitlin Coker earned three RBIs. In the circle, freshman Kasey Ricard (7-2) posted four strikeouts for her fourth shutout of the season before senior Allison Boaz (10-4) recorded eight strikeouts in a pitchers' duel.

GAME 1: BU - 13, Yale - 0 (5 inn.)

HOW IT HAPPENED

BU pulled away with five runs of four hits in the bottom of the second inning.
Graduate student Emily Gant earned a lead-off walk before reaching third on Nett's double down the right field line.
After the bases were loaded on an error, senior Audrey Sellers (single), junior Lauren Keleher (sac fly) and Roncin (single) all plated a run for a 3-0 advantage.
Coker followed up with a two-RBI single to center.
In the third inning, the Terriers added seven runs off six hits, including two-RBI singles by Roncin and Nett.
Yale tried to avoid the shutout with back-to-back one-out singles in the fourth, but Ricard earned a fly out and infield pop up.
After Roncin added one more run with an RBI double, Ricard sealed the run-rule decision with three quick outs.

GAME 2: Yale - 2, BU - 1

HOW IT HAPPENED

Boaz combined for four strikeouts through the first two innings before running into trouble in the third.
The Bulldogs put the ball in play with one out on consecutive at-bats before advancing the runners on a ground out.
Fouling off a pair of pitches with two strikes, Willa Ferrer drove a 2-2 pitch up the middle to grab a 2-0 lead for the Bulldogs.
Yale tried to extend the lead with two more singles in the fifth, but Boaz ended the threat with a swinging strikeout.
Gant broke up Nicole Conway's (3-3) no-hit bid in the fifth with an infield single and eventually moved to third following a hit-by-pitch and walk.
Conway kept the Terriers scoreless with an outside pitch that drew groans from the crowd.
BU tried to rally again in the sixth, as Roncin and Coker led off with back-to-back singles and took advantage of an error to cut the deficit in half.
With the game-tying run at second and zero outs, Conway earned three straight fly outs.
Conway was helped in the seventh with two catches by the Yale defense on hard liners to claim the victory.

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