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Belle Burdenski connects with a ball during a softball game
Brian Yamamura
2
Bates BATES 8-8
6
Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 15-8
Bates BATES
8-8
2
Final
6
Brandeis BRANDEIS
15-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Bates BATES 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 0
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 0 5 0 1 0 X 6 8 2

W: Jennings, Madeline (6-4) L: Brigid Gaffny (0-4)

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Bates BATES 8-8
8
Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 16-8
Bates BATES
8-8
6
Final
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Brandeis BRANDEIS
16-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Bates BATES 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 6 10 1
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 8 11 0

W: Staub, Jamie (5-2) L: Isabella Albro (2-1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Adam Levin '94

Burdenski walk-off helps Judges sweep Bates, 6-2 and 8-6

WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University softball team hit four home runs over the course of a doubleheader sweep of Bates College today on Marcus Field. The Judges went deep three times in the opener, a 6-2 win, then saw senior Bells Burdenski (San Diego, Calif./Rancho Bernardo) belt a walk-off in Game 2 as they overcame a 5-0 deficit for an 8-6 win.

TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis: 16-8.
  • Bates: 8-9.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME 1 (Brandeis 6, Bates 2)
  • The Judges hit three homers in support of first-year pitcher Madeline Jennings (New York, N.Y./Beacon) in the opener.
  • With a scoreless game headed into the bottom of the third, Brandeis broke things open by sending nine hitters to plate and scoring five runs.
  • Sophomore Jordan Wallace (Howell, N.J./Choate Rosemary Hall) broke the ice with a three-run home run to straight-away center field on the first pitch of her at bat. It was her fourth homer of the season and the 10th of her career.
  • Burdenski then went back-to-back with Wallace to almost the same spot in the park to make it a 4-0 game.
  • After a Maddie Manes (San Clemente, Calif./San Juan Hills) double chased Bates starter Brigid Gaffney, junior Elle Ehrlich (Falls Church, Va. / Meridian) singled up the middle to make it 5-0, Brandeis.
  • Junior Brooke Boehmer (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon) added a solo homer to lead off the fifth inning. It was her first of the campaign and fourth of her career, giving Brandeis a 6-0 lead.
  • Meanwhile, Jennings had her best collegiate outing in the circle. After giving up a leadoff hit, she retired 15 Bobcats in a row, including seven of her first nine outs coming by strikeout.
  • Bates struck for a run each in the fifth and sixth innings, only one of which was earned, as Jennings picked up her second seven-inning complete game of the season. She had a career-high nine strikeouts and walked just one, allowing four hits and two runs (one earned). Jennings improved to 6-4 on the season.
  • Boehmer's three-hit game paced the Brandeis attack, while Manes had two hits. Wallace drove in a game-high three runs.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME TWO (Brandeis 8, Bates 6)
  • In the second contest, the Bates bats were alive in the first four innings, as they scored in each of them to take a 5-0 lead.
  • Centerfielder Zariya Anderson was responsible for four of the RBI. She doubled home a run in the first, singled in two more in the second and delivered a sacrifice fly in the fifth that gave the visitors their largest lead of the day.
  • Brandeis got back into the game with a two-run single by first-year catcher Dylan Yamamura (Newbury Park, Calif./Newbury Park) in the bottom of the fourth.
  • Judge sophomore pitcher Jamie Staub (Lawrenceville, N.J./Hun School) helped her team maintain momentum by retiring the side in the fifth on just three pitches, and Boehmer delivered an RBI double in the bottom of the frame to get Brandeis within 5-3.
  • Bates reliever Isabella Albro got a called third strike to end the fifth, and the Bobcats got a run back in the top of the sixth on an Ella Maher RBI.
  • Burdenski led off the bottom of the sixth win a single, scoring three batters later on a grounder by sophomore Hannah Fletcher (Bethany, Conn./Amity Regional), setting up the heroics of the seventh inning.
  • After getting a 4-6-3 double play to get out of the top of the seventh, senior Erin Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C./Franklin Acad.) singled and Manes doubled to get the tying runs in scoring position.
  • Albro induced a pop-up for the first out of the inning, but Wallace dropped one in right field to plate two runners and knot the game at 6-6.
  • Burdenski went down 0-2 to Albro and fouled off a pitch, then took two balls before launching her walk-off homer to left field, ending the game with her second homer of the day, third of the season and the 18th of her career.
  • Manes led the Brandeis offense with three hits, while Burdenski finished Game Two going 2-3 with three runs scored, two RBI and the big home run.
  • Staub earned the win in relief with four innings of four-hit ball. She struck out one and walked one, allowing two earned runs. She improves to 5-2 on the season.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
  • The wins were the 101st and 102nd in the Brandeis career of head coach Dani Bishop, who reached the century mark on Wednesday at Wellesley. She now has 202 wins for her career including her time at Eastern Nazarene College.
  • With her two homers today, Burdenski moved into a tie with two others for sixth on the Judges' all-time list.
  • Wallace's five RBI on the day give her 44 on the season, the second-highest total in school history, surpassing three others tied at 43, a mark not reached since 2010. Wallace is tied for the NCAA Division III lead in RBI this season. She will need 31 more in the team's final 16 games to surpass the Brandeis school record of 74 set in 1999 by Melissa Jones '99.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges will play host to WPI for a doubleheader next Tuesday at 3 p.m. before playing 12 of their final 14 games against University Athletic Association opponents.
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