LEWISBURG, Pa. – Helped by two strong pitching performances and timely hitting, the Boston University softball team claimed a doubleheader sweep at Bucknell on Friday afternoon.
The Terriers (35-7, 8-0 PL) scored all five runs in the first game with two outs for a 5-1 win over the Bison (10-24, 2-9 PL) and then claimed their 20th shutout of the season in a 3-0 game two victory. BU doubled Bucknell in hits, 20-10, and earned all six extra-base hits on the day to extend the nation's longest active road win streak to 13 contests.
Graduate student
Emily Gant went a combined 3-for-7 with a team-high three RBIs, as six of her teammates tabulated multiple hits in the DH. Sophomore
Tyesha Williams compiled four hits, including an RBI single, while graduate student
Nicole Amodio hit a solo homer. Both senior
Caitlin Coker and junior
Lauren Keleher earned a triple to help the Terriers grab the nation's top slot at 24 total.
In the circle, senior
Allison Boaz (17-4) scattered seven hits over seven innings with the help of three strikeouts against two walks to limit Bucknell to one unearned run. Freshman
Kasey Ricard (14-2) then totaled 10 strikeouts while allowing just one walk for a three-hit shutout.
GAME 1: BU - 5, Bucknell - 1
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Terriers earned three singles over the first two innings but also struck out four times against Savannah Jones (1-7).
- Bucknell earned a single and two-out walk in the second before Boaz earned a ground out.
- Junior Kayla Roncin provided the needed spark in the third with a two-out double to center.
- After Coker earned a walk, both Terriers scored on Gant's single that was mishandled in right field.
- Freshman Brooke Deppiesse kept the pressure on with an RBI double and scored on Williams' RBI single to left.
- The Terriers earned two walks and a single to load the bases in the fifth but were unable to blow open the game with an infield pop up.
- After stranding two on base in both the third and fourth innings, the Bison got on the scoreboard by hitting a lead-off infield single and taking advantage of a fielding error with an RBI groundout to cut the deficit to 4-1.
- Amodio put BU's lead back at four runs by launching a 3-1 pitch to center with two outs in the top of the seventh.
- The Bison tried to mount a rally with a two-out single, but Boaz shut the door with a ground out to short.
GAME 2: BU - 3, Bucknell - 0
HOW IT HAPPENED
- BU grabbed the lead for good in the first inning, as Roncin reached base via throwing error and eventually scored on Gant's two-out RBI single to center.
- Ricard tallied three strikeouts over the first two innings and then struck out the side in the third to keep BU's lead at 1-0.
- Junior Lauren Keleher helped the Terriers create some distance by tripling to right center in the fifth and scoring on Roncin's RBI grounder.
- Coker immediately followed with a triple down the right field line and scored on Gant's RBI sac fly to center to extend the lead to 3-0.
- Ricard posted four more strikeouts to seal her seventh solo shutout.
UP NEXT
- The Terriers and Bison will try to beat the rain by wrapping up the series on Saturday (April 15) at 10 a.m.
