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Brooke Boehmer follows through with her swing during a softball game
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10
WPI WPI 9-11-1
11
Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 12-14
WPI WPI
9-11-1
10
Final
11
Brandeis BRANDEIS
12-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
WPI WPI 0 0 0 0 5 2 1 2 10 12 0
Brandeis BRANDEIS 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 11 17 1

W: Kannan, Ragini (8-6) L: S. Lazarus (4-2)

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WPI WPI 9-12-1
14
Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 13-14
WPI WPI
9-12-1
6
Final
14
Brandeis BRANDEIS
13-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E
WPI WPI 0 4 0 0 1 1 6 10 1
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 0 6 1 4 3 14 13 1

W: Cohen, Alex (5-8) L: N. Boldebuck (2-3)

Game Recap: Softball | | Adam Levin '94

Softball walks off twice against WPI

WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University softball first-year Brooke Boehmer (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon) had the walk-off plate appearance in both ends of a doubleheader today against visiting WPI. She had a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the eighth to help the Judges to an 11-10 win in the completion of a suspended game against the Engineers that was started on March 22. Boehmer then drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the sixth inning of a 14-6 run-rule victory.
TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis: 13-14.
  • WPI: 9-12-1.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME ONE (Brandeis 11, WPI 10 – 8 innings)
  • Brandeis and WPI were tied at 7-all in the bottom of the sixth on March 22 when the game was called because of darkness. The Judges had runners on first and second, but were unable push the go-ahead run across the plate.
  • WPI's Destiny Lum homered with one out in the seventh inning to give her team an 8-7 lead, but Brandeis catcher Tristan Boyer (Chesapeake, Va./Grassfield), who was injured and did not play in the initial game, tied things up with an RBI double in the bottom of the frame. The Judges left the bases loaded in search of a winning run.
  • In the top of the 10th, WPI loaded the bases with none out thanks to a bunt single and a walk in addition to the tiebreaker runner placed on second. Sydney Russell added a second bunt single to drive in the first run of the frame, while Emma Nagy's grounder to short brought in a run but saw the lead runner thrown out at third.
  • Trailing 10-8 headed into the bottom of the eighth, the Judges used their own small-ball game to load the bases with the tiebreaker runner, a walk to senior 3B Haley Nash (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem Central) and a bunt single by senior DP Alex Cohen (West Palm Beach, Fla./Benjamin School).
  • WPI pitcher Shaina Lazarus got a pop to second base and a strikeout for the first two outs of the inning.
  • Lazarus was ahead, 0-2, on Boehmer when the Brandeis first-year drove a ball to left-center field. The Engineers' centerfielder went a long way but couldn't quite make the play, allowing all three runs to score and the Judges to walk off with the 11-10 victory.
  • Boehmer finished the game going 3-5 with four RBI and a run scored, while fellow first-year Hana Bean (Manchester, N.H./St. Pauls School) was 3-5 with two RBI and run scored, having hit her second collegiate home run during the first portion of the game.
  • Brandeis sophomore Ragini Kannan (Westford, Mass./Westford Academy) earned the win with an eight-inning complete game. She survived allowing 10 runs (eight earned) on 12 hits, with seven strikeouts and two walks to improve to 8-6 on the season.
  • Lazarus took the loss for WPI, throwing both innings today and allowing five hits, four runs (three earned) with two strikeouts and a walk.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME TWO (Brandeis 14, WPI 6 – 6 innings)
  • WPI jumped on Kannan in the second game, scoring four times in the second inning. Sandy Fairbairn delivered a two-run single, while Russell had a two-run double.
  • Cohen came on in relief of Kannan and got a pop to short and a foul out to the catcher to escape further trouble.
  • Brandeis's offense got on track in the bottom of the third, when they sent 11 hitters to the plate, scoring six runs on five hits and three walks. Sophomore Elle Ehrlich (Falls Church, Va./Meridian) opened the scoring with her first home run of the season, a two-run shot that cut the Judges' deficit in half to 4-2.
  • The Judges loaded the bases with two walks and a single. Boyer drove in the team's third run of the inning with a single, and junior 2B Fiona Doiron (Charlton, Mass./Marianapolis Prep) tied the game with a grounder to third. Sophomore CF Bells Burdenski (San Diego, Calif./Rancho Bernardo) delivered a two-run double to center to put Brandeis ahead, 6-4.
  • Pitchers helped their own causes later in the game, as Cohen singled in a run in the fourth and Lazarus had an RBI double for the Engineers in the fifth.
  • Brandeis looked to blow things open in the bottom of the fifth, when they struck for three home runs. Burdenski poked one out down the line in left with the bases empty to temporarily tie for the team lead with her seventh of the campaign. Three batters later, Nash broke the tie with one on for her eighth round-tripper of the year. Junior Anna Kolb (Alexandria, Va./Thomas A. Edison) went back-to-back with Nash with her third homer of the season, making the lead 11-5 for the Judges.
  • WPI's Riley O'Brien got one back in the sixth with an RBI double to close the visitors within 11-6.
  • In the bottom of the sixth, Boyer led off with a double, and the Judges got one more single, then drew four additional walks in the frame, with the last two driving in the runs that ended the contest early.
  • The Judges had 13 hits in the game, six going for extra bases. Boyer went 3-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored, while Nash scored three runs and Burdenski and Ehrlich each drove in three.
  • Cohen earned the win in relief with 4.2 innings of work. She allowed six hits and two runs with one strikeout and one hit batter. She improved to 5-8.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges will play host to University Athletic Association leaders and #6-ranked Case Western Reserve for a four-game series starting on Friday at 3 p.m.
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