Softball Earns Doubleheader Split At Albany
May 8, 2004 | Softball
GAME ONE - ALBANY 6, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 3
GAME TWO - BOSTON UNIVERSITY 5, ALBANY 3
ALBANY, N.Y. League-leading University at Albany downed Boston University, 6-3, in game one of an America East softball doubleheader in Albany, N.Y. on Saturday, May 8, but the Terriers came back to even the series with a 5-3 win in the second game.
Albany, which is heading to next week's America East Softball Championship as the No. 1 seed, went to 34-16, 17-2, while B.U. moved to 23-30, 11-7. The Terriers have also made the four-team field, and will most likely be the No. 3 seed.
GAME ONE ALBANY 6, BOSTON UNIVERSITY 3
Albany jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first three innings. B.U. sophomore first baseman Liz Alley (Aurora, Colo.) would even the score in a hurry in the top of the fifth with a three-run home run to left center fielder to make the score 3-3. It was Alley's 12th home run of the season, extending her team single-season record and tying her for first all-time in career home runs (Cathleen Crowley, 1994 - 15 home runs).
Albany's Liz Wieboldt would push the go-ahead run across the plate in the bottom of the fifth, singling home a run to make it 4-3. The Great Danes would go on to win, 6-3.
Junior DeKenya Williams (San Diego, Calif.) got the start for the Terriers, going the distance for the loss. She gave up 10 hits and five earned runs to fall to 2-6 on the season.
The top of the batting order did most of the damage for the Terriers, as senior center fielder Abbey Pauley (Spring, Texas), junior short stop Jamie Haas (Houston, Texas), and Alley went a combined 6-for-12.
GAME TWO - BOSTON UNIVERSITY 5, ALBANY 3
B.U. pounded out 13 hits against Albany pitching, evening the series at one game apiece with the 5-3 win.
Williams went 3-for-3 at the plate. Haas was 1-for-4 with a two-run double, and freshman reserve Erika Myrill (Baldwin, N.Y.) got her first two hits as a Terrier, going 2-for-3.
It was Haas's two-RBI double in the fourth that was the difference, giving the Terriers a 3-2 advantage, a lead they would not relinquish.
Freshman Krysta Peplowski (Albany, N.Y.) got her first career start in the circle for the Terriers, going six innings and giving up only two hits. Freshman Brittany Detwiler (Souderton, Pa.) came on in the seventh to earn her first career save.
The two teams wrap up the regular-season with the rubber match of the series on Sunday, May 9, at 12 p.m.
