BUFFALO, NY – The Buffalo State softball team opened SUNYAC play on Sunday afternoon with a doubleheader sweep of Brockport, winning game one 2-1, before completing the sweep with a 9-1 victory.
GAME TWO BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Buffalo State – 9, Brockport – 1 (5 innings)
LOCATION: Softball Field – Buffalo, NY
RECORDS: Buffalo State (7-6, 2-0 SUNYAC), Brockport (5-13, 0-2 SUNYAC)
INSIDE THE BENGAL BOX SCORE
- Mya Hurley (Amherst, NY/Amherst) and Lexi Quagliana (Williamsville, NY/Williamsville South) each had three hits and drove in a run apiece.
- Sarah Congelosi (Montgomery, NY/Valley Central) went 2-for-2 with a triple, a pair of walks, and three runs scored.
- Caitlyn Parsons (Webster, NY/Webster Thomas) had two hits and knocked in two runs.
- Madison Lucas (Oakdale, PA/West Allegheny) drove in a pair of runs at the plate, and threw a complete game one-hitter and allowed just one unearned run for her second win of the season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Bengals struck for five runs in the top of the first inning, as Congelosi led off the game with a triple and scored on Hurley's single to left field.
- Three batters later, Lucas drilled an opposite-field double off the fence to drive in two runs, and Deme Kellogg (Gansevoort, NY/South Glens Falls) and Kaitlyn Schnitzer (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) both drove in a run.
- Parsons lined a single to left center to drive in two runs in the second inning, and Quagliana's third hit drove in a run in the fourth inning.
- The Golden Eagles took advantage of two Buffalo State errors in the bottom of the fourth inning to score their lone run.
- Congelosi walked, stole second and went to third on an errant throw, and then scored on a wild pitch in the top of the fifth inning, and Lucas set Brockport down in order in the bottom half of the inning to earn the run-rule victory.
FOR THE FOES
- Grace Talbut had the lone Brockport hit.
GAME ONE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Buffalo State – 2, Brockport – 1
LOCATION: Softball Field – Buffalo, NY
RECORDS: Buffalo State (6-6, 1-0 SUNYAC), Brockport (5-12, 0-1 SUNYAC)
INSIDE THE BENGAL BOX SCORE
- Izzy Pezdek (Lancaster, NY/Grand Island) earned her fourth win of the season, tossing a complete-game five-hitter and striking out eight batters.
- Parsons went 1-for-2 and drove in a run.
- Grace Albano (N. Tonawanda, NY/Niagara Wheatfield) went-1-for-1, walked twice, and scored a run.
- Kenzie Scott (Greene, NY/Greene) drove in the other Buffalo State run.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Congelosi walked, stole second and came home on a two-out RBI single up the middle by Parsons to put the Bengals up 1-0 in the top of the first inning.
- Pezdek worked out of a bases loaded jam with a strikeout in the bottom of the first inning to keep the Golden Eagles off the board.
- Albano walked to lead off the third inning and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Congelosi, before coming home on an RBI groundout by Scott.
- The Golden Eagles countered with a run of their own in the bottom of the third, but Pezdek once again stranded the bases loaded to keep the score at 2-1.
- Pezdek doubled to deep left field in the fourth and made it to third with one out, but the Bengals couldn't capitalize.
- Brockport put a runner on third base with nobody out in the sixth inning, and Pezdek came through again with three strikeouts to pitch out of danger.
- Pezdek pitched a hitless seventh inning to secure the victory for the Bengals.
FOR THE FOES
- Kendall Phillips pitched 3.1 effective innings of relief, allowing just one hit and striking out seven batters.
UP NEXT
The Bengals are back at home on Tuesday, hosting St. John Fisher in a non-conference doubleheader at 3 pm.
