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Softball | Pexels by Pixabay
The Brooklyn College softball team dropped both games of a non-conference doubleheader at home on Friday to St. Joseph's Brooklyn. Brooklyn fell 12-1 in five innings to the Bears in Game 1 before ending the evening with a 6-0 loss in Game 2. Next Up: Brooklyn will look to bounce back on the road at Purchase on Monday in another non-conference doubleheader beginning at 3pm.
How It Happened (Game 1)
- The visitors jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the top of the first inning on five hits and two BC errors.
- Trailing 11-0, the Bulldogs avoided the shutout in the bottom of the third inning as sophomore infielder, Zoey Van Vleet, scored on a wild pitch after leading off the inning with a single and stealing two bases.
- Freshman catcher, Kaitlyn Belfield, and senior outfielder, Dasha Goodman, also singled for Brooklyn. Belfield also walked.
- Freshman shortstop, Melanie Millan, walked twice and made a number of key plays in the field.
- St. Joe's broke the 0-0 stalemate in the top of the fourth inning, scoring five runs on five hits and an error. The Bears tacked on one more run in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI single.
- Millan went 1-2 with a walk.
- Millan stole the show once again defensively in the second game with a number of outstanding plays in the field
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