WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University softball team celebrated Senior Day in style today as the Judges completed a four-game University Athletic Association series sweep of New York University with a 10-2 win in five innings. The victory extends the Judges' winning streak to seven games.

TEAM RECORDS

• Brandeis: 18-9, 10-6 UAA.
• NYU: 17-15, 6-10 UAA.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• For the second game in a row, NYU struck first with two runs in the top of the first inning.
• After Brandeis starter Chandra Penton (Newton, Mass./Newton South) issued a pair of one-out walks, she retired the next hitter for the second out. NYU responded with a pair of two-out hits from 3B Samantha Burggraf and CF Chloe Blanc.
• Violet catcher Lily Candelaria followed with another single to left, but left fielder Elle Ehrlich (Falls Church, Va./Meridian) threw out Burggraf trying to score from second.
• The Judges bounced right back in the bottom of the first, starting with a one-out home run to left by first-year SS Bells Burdenski (San Diego, Calif. / Rancho Bernardo).
• A single by junior Alex Cohen (West Palm Beach, Fla./The Benjamin School) and a walk to 3B Haley Nash (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem Central) put two runners on
• First-year 1B Maddie Manes (San Clemente, Calif / San Juan Hills) doubled to center to tie the game at 2-all, while Ehrlich delivered a sacrifice fly to center to give the Judges the lead.
• Cohen entered the circle in the top of the second, and after allowing a lead-off single, retired 12 of the last 13 hitters she faced.
• Brandeis extended its lead to 4-2 in the third on a Burdenski sac fly, and the Judges blew things open in the fourth, scoring six runs. Burdenski added another RBI in the frame, while Nash had a two-run single.
• Senior 2B Jamie Pippin (Redmond, Wash./Lake Washington) and rookie CF Erin Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C./Franklin Acad.) each had RBI singles in the frame, while senior RF Lily Medici (New City, N.Y./Clarkstown North) had a bases-loaded walk as the Judges put the game out of reach.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Burdenski led the Brandeis offense, going 2-3 with three RBI, two runs scored and a home run.
• Her home run was her third of the season.
• Nash also drove in two runs and scored two.
• Medici reached base three times with two walks and a single scoring two runs.
• Four different NYU batters had one hit each, none going for extra bases.
• Cohen earned the win in relief of Penton, as she improves to 7-4 on the season. Cohen struck out five and did not walk a batter, allowing one hit and hitting one with a pitch.
• NYU's Jessie Werthman falls to 3-4 on the season after allowing three hits and four runs (three earned). She walked one and struck out one in an inning-plus of work.
• Three NYU relievers combined for three innings of five-hit ball, allowing six runs (three earned), with three walks and three strikeouts.

UP NEXT

• The Judges will put their seven-game winning streak on the line next weekend when they play host to Washington University for another four-game UAA series.