Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 GENESEO, N.Y. – The Geneseo pitching staff slowed the hot bats of the Buffalo State softball team, as the Bengals dropped a doubleheader to the SUNYAC-leading Knights in conference action Friday afternoon. The Bengals fell in both games, 4-0 and 11-3.
 
GAME 1 BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Geneseo – 4, Buffalo State – 0
LOCATION: Vic Raschi Field – Geneseo, N.Y.
RECORDS: Buffalo State (11-18, 3-8 SUNYAC), Geneseo (22-3, 10-1)
 
INSIDE THE BENGALS BOX SCORE

• The Bengals were held to a season low two hits in game one.
• Kayla Wolinski (Lancaster, N.Y./Lancaster) extended her hit streak to six games, going 1-for-3.
• Sarah Congelosi (Montgomery, N.Y./Valley Central) tallied the other hit for Buffalo State.
• Ella Susi (Lakeview, N.Y./Frontier) earned the start, pitching three innings and allowing four earned runs.
• Olivia Carr (West Falls, N.Y./East Aurora) pitched three innings in relief, giving up a hit while striking out two.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Geneseo tallied a pair of runs in the first inning, manufacturing runs on a grounder and a sacrifice fly to left field.
• The Knights added a run in the third with a one-out, RBI single to left field by Audrey Minton.
• Geneseo added its fourth run in the fourth after beginning the frame with a pair of hits.
• Geneseo starter Lauren Kersch had a perfect game until the sixth inning, as Congelosi struck a two-out single to right field.
•  Oriana Castello (Pearl River, N.Y./Nanuet) was hit by a pitch in the next at-bat to put a runner in scoring position, before Kersch ended the Bengal rally with a strikeout.
• Wolinski tallied the Bengals' second hit with two outs in the seventh inning.

 
FOR THE FOES

• Kersch pitched a complete-game shutout, improving to 9-0 with two hits allowed, striking out four batters.
• Leah VanDerwarker and Samantha Martz each tallied two hits.

 
GAME 2 BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Geneseo – 11, Buffalo State – 3 (six innings)
LOCATION: Vic Raschi Field – Geneseo, N.Y.
RECORDS: Buffalo State (11-19, 3-9 SUNYAC), Geneseo (23-3, 11-1)
 
INSIDE THE BENGALS BOX SCORE

• Caitlyn Parsons (Webster, N.Y./Webster Thomas) went 3-for-3, scoring a run.
• Congelosi added two more hits, finishing 2-for-3 with an RBI.
• Taylor Benton (Niagara Falls, N.Y./Niagara-Wheatfield) and Deme Kellogg (Gansevoort, N.Y./South Glens Falls) each tallied a hit with a run driven in.
• Kayla Wolinski (Lancaster, N.Y./Lancaster) tallied a hit and scored a run, extending her hitting streak to seven games.
• Carli Bogue (Elba, N.Y./Elba) allowed just two earned runs in two innings. Carr allowed an earned run in 3.1 innnings pitched.

 
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Bengals broke through in the opening inning, as a leadoff Castello walk and steal of second led to a Benton RBI single to left field, scoring the speedy Castello.
• Geneseo responded with a run off a Bengal miscue, as a passed ball scored VanDerwarker from third.
• Geneseo then took the lead in the second, with a VanDerwarker RBI single into right field.
• Buffalo State fought back with a two-out rally, beginning with an Kellogg RBI double into right field and culminating with a Congelosi RBI single into center field, taking a 3-2 lead in the third.
• Geneseo took the lead right back with a five-run third as the Knights led 7-3.
• Geneseo added a pair of insurance runs in the fourth, leading 9-3.
• The Bengals threatened in the fifth, as a leadoff Benton walk and a Parsons single put runners on, but couldn't get a run in as the Knights maintained a six-run lead.
• The Knights ended the game early with a three-run sixth inning, capped by a game-clinching RBI single to center field by Olivia Fazio.

 
FOR THE FOES

• Fazio led Geneseo with four hits, driving in four runs and scoring twice.
• VanDerwarker added three hits and three RBI.
• Elizabeth Eberhardt improved to 4-1, picking up the win in relief after allowing just three hits in the final 3 1/3 innings.

 
UP NEXT         
The Bengals will finish the road trip with a matchup at Brockport on Saturday, with the doubleheader beginning at noon.