BOSTON, MA (taken from a UMass-Boston press release) –
Sophomore designated player Danielle Mayer (Larkspur, Calif.) went
2-3 with two runs batted in to lead the Brandeis University
softball team over host University of Massachusetts Boston, 5-3,
today at the Clark Athletic Center Softball Field.
Senior SS Mari Levine (Hopkinton, Mass.) crushed a one-out double
to left field and, following an out, was plated by a Mayer single
to left center to pull the Judges even at 1-1 in the top of the
fourth inning. Brandeis used its momentum to score four more times
in the top of the fifth when Victoria Roomet singled to left to
lead off the inning, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and
came around to score on an error to give the Judges a 2-1 edge.
Sophomore hurler Kaitlin Streilein (Point Pleasant, N.J.) followed
with a double to center field to score junior catcher Christina
McWilliams (Billerica, Mass.), who had reached on the error, to
make it 3-1. Following the second out of the inning, Levine doubled
to left center to bring home Streilein and later scored when Mayer
singled to shortstop to give the Judges a 5-1 advantage.
UMass Boston cut the deficit to 5-2 in the bottom of the sixth when
sophomore third baseman Alison Lowe (Brockton, MA) drew a two-out
walk, went to second on a single by senior left fielder Elizabeth
A. Erlandson (East Boston, MA) and scored when senior right fielder
Molly Norton (Milton, MA) blooped a single to right field. The
Beacons added another run in the seventh when sophomore shortstop
Katherine Wall (Arlington, MA) led off with a triple to center
field and came around to score on a sacrifice bunt by senior
catcher Catie O’Reilly (Dorchester, MA), but it would be all
the runs that UMB would get.
UMass Boston got on the board first when Wall legged out an
inside-the-park home run to right center in the first inning to
make it 1-0.
Streilein went the distance for Brandeis, tossing seven innings,
while allowing three earned runs on nine hits and three walks,
while striking out 10.
Freshman right hander Nikki Johnson (Leicester, MA) suffered the
loss for the Beacons, allowing five runs (two earned) on seven hits
and two walks, while striking out two in five innings of work.
Freshman Jenn Santoro (Belmont, MA) pitched two innings of one-hit
relief to close it out for UMass Boston.
Wall led the Beacons, going 2-2 with a homer, a triple, a pair of
walks, two runs scored and an RBI, while Knight and Norton both
finished with two hits in three trips.
Levine smacked a pair of doubles on the day for the Judges, while
scoring twice, knocking in a run and working a walk.
Mayer leads softball past UMass-Boston, 5-3
Posted: Mar 27, 2006