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Erin Hunt slides into second base
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Brandeis BRANDEIS 0-2
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Winner Occidental OCCIDENT 3-2
Brandeis BRANDEIS
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Final
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Occidental OCCIDENT
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Brandeis BRANDEIS 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 0
Occidental OCCIDENT 0 0 0 0 2 2 X 4 6 1

W: Z. Day-Adams (2-0) L: Warden, Claire (0-1)

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Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 1-3
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Occidental OCCIDENT 4-3
Winner
Brandeis BRANDEIS
1-3
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Final
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Occidental OCCIDENT
4-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Brandeis BRANDEIS 3 0 0 0 8 1 1 13 12 1
Occidental OCCIDENT 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 5 10 1

W: Vermeulen, Kathryn (1-1) L: J. Tiberi (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | Adam Levin '94

Softball splits at Occidental to get into win column

Judges dropped the opener, 4-3, but broke out with a 13-5 win in the nightcap

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Brandeis University softball team picked up its first win of the season today, as the Judges earned a doubleheader split at Occidental College. The Judges dropped the opener, 4-3, but rallied with their best offensive game of the young season in a 13-5 victory.

TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis, 1-3.
  • Occidental, 4-3.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME ONE (Occidental, 4-3)
  • The Judges got off to a good start, scoring three times in the top of the first. The first four Brandeis batters reached on two walks and two singles. Sophomore 1B Brooke Boehmer (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon) drove in one run with a single, while first-year Jordan Wallace (Howell, N.J./Choate Rosemary Hall, Conn.) and junior Elle Ehrlich (Falls Church, Va./Meridian) each drew bases-loaded walks, giving the Judges a 3-0 lead.
  • Judge first-year Jamie Staub (Lawrenceville, N.J./Hun School) retired the first eight Tiger batters before allowing a double and a walk with two away in the third. She stayed out of further trouble until the fifth inning.
  • Oxy pulled within a run in the fifth, scoring twice on three hits and a stolen base.
  • The home team went ahead in the sixth, loading the bases on two walks and a single with one out. A sacrifice fly tied the game at 3-all, and a single to center gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead.
  • Brandeis loaded the bases with one out in the top of the seventh, thanks to an Occidental error, a hit batter and a single by grad student Haley Nash (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem Central). Oxy senior Zada Day-Adams got two fly-outs to center field to help close out the win with her 130th pitch of the game.
  • Boehmer and junior Maddie Manes (San Clemente, Calif./San Juan Hills) each had two hits for the Judges.
  • Staub allowed four hits and two earned runs in the first five innings, striking out two and walking one. Classmate Claire Warden (Annandale, Va./Woodson) took the loss with two hits and two runs allowed in one inning of work with two walks and two strikeouts. She falls to 0-1 on the season.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 2 (Brandeis, 13-5)
  • The Brandeis offense came alive in the second game. All nine Brandeis starters had a hit, while eight different players scored a run and seven had RBI. The Judges also took advantage of 15 walks issued by Occidental pitchers.
  • The Judges batted around in the top of the first, scoring three runs on two hits, four walks and an error. RBIs came from junior Bells Burdenski (San Diego, Calif./Rancho Bernardo) on a single up the middle and first-year Katie Baydian (Massapequa, N.Y./Our Lady of Mercy Acad.) on a sacrifice fly to left.
  • The Tigers threatened in the third inning, getting runners on second and third with one out. They plated one run, but CF Erin Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C./Franklin Acad.) cut down a runner at the plate trying to score on a sacrifice fly to end the frame.
  • Brandeis left the bases loaded in the top of the fourth, and Oxy answered with their second run in the bottom of the inning on a single, wild pitch and a Judge error.
  • The Judges looked to blow things open with an eight-run top of the fifth inning. They sent 13 hitters to the plate, delivering six hits, including three doubles in a four-batter span. They also drew three more walks. Boehmer and sophomore Hannah Fletcher (Bethany, Conn./Amity Regional) each had two-run doubles in the frame.
  • Occidental came down to the last out in the fifth, but delivered three runs in the clutch to stave off the eight-run rule.
  • Hunt manufactured a run in the sixth, with a walk and two stolen bases, scoring on a wild pitch to make it 12-5. She also knocked in a run in the top of the seventh with a bases-loaded single to close out the scoring.
  • Hunt finished the game reaching base five times, going 2-3 with three walks. She scored two runs and drove in two, while going four-for-five on stolen bases.
  • Burdenski reached base in all five plate appearances, going 2-2 with three walks, two runs scored, two RBI, and a double.
  • Graduate student Kathryn Vermeulen (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) earned her first win in a Brandeis uniform with a seven-inning complete game. She allowed 10 hits and five runs (four earned). She walked two and struck out one, throwing 110 pitches to improve to 1-1 this season.
UP NEXT
The Judges continue their West Coast February trip tomorrow with games at Chapman University starting at 5 p.m. (2 Pacific).
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