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Box Score 2 BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (Apr. 10, 2014) - On Thursday afternoon, the Molloy College softball team saw one of the program's best performances in recent history as in Game 1 alone, sophomore catcher
Milan Botte (San Diego, Calif.) crushed a pair of three-run homers helping the Lions run-rule No. 18 LIU Post, 12-4 in five innings. The Lions fell to the Pioneers in a tight second game, 6-5, to split with their East Coast Conference foe. Molloy is now 14-12 overall (8-3 ECC), while the Pioneers are now 24-4 (11-1 ECC).
Game 1: Molloy 12, LIU Post 4 (5 innings) The Pioneers jumped on the scoreboard with a solo homer in the second inning. Botte answered that and put her team on the scoreboard with a three-run dinger in the third inning. Also in the same frame, junior
Victoria Gunnels (North Bellmore, N.Y.) had a single find its way to the second baseman, as sophomore
Tracey Balinskas (Edison, N.J.) scored an unearned run. Ahead 4-2 in the fourth inning, the Lions received a sacrifice fly from Balinskas, an RBI single from senior
Dayna White (East Islip, N.Y.) and their second three-run homer of the game -- this time off the bat of freshman
Erin Clinton (Long Beach, Calif.). The Lions had a 9-2 lead at this point.
Botte would go on to hit another three-run homer in the fifth inning, helping propel the Lions to a 12-4 victory. The San Diego native finished the game going 2-for-3 with three runs scored, two homers and six RBIs.
Game 2: LIU Post 6, Molloy 5The Lions scored first in the opening inning when junior second baseman
Brenda Lee (Corona, Calif.) reached on a fielding error, allowing senior shortstop
Nicolette Sinagra (Brooklyn, N.Y.) to touch home plate. Molloy scored again when White roped an RBI single to right field, bringing in Lee.
An LIU Post two-run homer in the bottom of the first tied the game. The Lions retook the lead when Sinagra smacked a two-run homer in the fourth. The Pioneers came right back in the bottom of the fourth when they had a three-run homer put them back in front, 5-4. In a see-saw pattern, Lee drilled a solo homer in the top of the sixth to tie the game. However, the Pioneers were able to squeak out a run on an RBI single in the sixth inning and eventually secured the 6-5 win.
Sinagra went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs, while Lee finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI.
Head Coach
Susan Cassidy-Lyke and the Lions return to action on Saturday, Apr. 12 when they host Dowling College in an ECC doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. Starting at 11 a.m., the two teams will resume their halted game (darkness) from March 27 (6th inning, tied at 2-2).
