BOSTON – After turning a bases-loaded double play in the top of the eighth, the Boston University softball team used freshman Emily Gant's lead-off triple and senior Emily Morrow's walk-off homer to complete the home weekend series sweep against Holy Cross, 2-0, on Sunday morning.

With their first extra-inning win of the season, the Terriers improve to 17-15 and 3-0 in conference play, while the Crusaders drop to 3-22 (1-5 PL). Gant (4-7) won the pitchers' duel against reigning Patriot League Pitcher and Rookie of the Week Kelly Nelson (3-8) with the help of eight strikeouts against three hits allowed.

Senior Alex Heinen was named Turnpike Trophy MVP for the series after she batted 6-of-9 with three runs, three singles, a double, a triple and two-run homer. The reigning PL Player of the Year also caught a pair of shutouts and helped BU earn three critical outs late in the game-three victory.

EIGHTH INNING

• The Crusaders earned a lead-off walk and advanced the runner to third on a stolen base and sacrifice bunt.
• Holy Cross kept the pressure on by earning back-to-back full-count walks against Gant to load the bases.
• The Crusaders' leader in batting average, Taylor Wahler, though hit into a double play with a slow grounder to Gant, who threw to Heinen at home for the force out before Heinen threw a quick strike to first to keep the game scoreless.
• Facing a 1-2 count in the bottom half, Gant lined a triple to right center and scored on Morrow's homer to right for the walk-off victory.

THE SETUP

• Senior Alexa Ponce led off the second with double to left, but the Terriers were unable to get the ball out of the infield to keep the game scoreless.
• Morrow doubled to left in the third with two outs before Nelson ended the threat on a strikeout.
• The Crusaders earned a one-out walk in the fifth and tried to lay down a sacrifice bunt.
• Gant was able to get the lead runner out at second in a move that proved to be huge, as Hannah Horton was able to put runners at the corners on a single to left center that should have given Holy Cross the lead if not for Gant's shrewd decision.
• Gant got out of the jam by inducing a swinging strikeout from Nelson.
• A day after hitting a solo homer against Gant, Alyssa Guierrez led off the sixth with a triple but ended up being picked off at third by Heinen to keep the game scoreless.
• In the bottom of the seventh, the Terriers had two runners in scoring position following senior Madi Killebrew's one-out double, a hit-by-pitch and passed ball, but Nelson earned back-to-back strikeouts to send the game to extra innings.

GAME NOTES

• Gant tossed 124 pitchers and battled five walks allowed for her second shutout of the season.
• Gant became the fourth Terrier to earn a triple this season after Heinen hit one on Saturday and Morrow tripled on Thursday.
• Morrow became the seventh Terrier to go yard this year, as BU increased its total to 18 homers, two shy of last year's mark set in 59 games.
• With her first double of the season, Heinen moved into a tie-for-fourth all-time alongside Niclana Tolmasoff ('97) at 34 career doubles.
• After losing the weekend series in both 2014 and 2015 to Holy Cross, the Terriers have now won 12 straight games in the rivalry to move to 39-8 all-time.

NEXT UP: BOSTON COLLEGE

• The Terriers will put their perfect 5-0 home record on the line Wednesday (April 3) at 4 p.m. against Boston College.
• The Eagles edged the Terriers, 1-0, on a seventh-inning solo homer at BU to improve to 26-20 all-time in the series.