Softball: Bombers rally to sweep St. John Fisher College
The softball team is running a clinic on perseverance these days.
The softball team is running a clinic on perseverance these days.
After scoring most of its runs in the late innings Friday against Utica College, the softball team wasted no time against Elmira College by taking early leads and keeping the game out of reach in a doubleheader sweep.
After losing five games in a row, the softball team found the most opportunistic time to face Utica College, a team they have not lost to since joining the Empire 8 conference.
The softball team has had production circling throughout their lineup, however missed opportunities and bad timing led to two losses of 7-5 and 4-1 at the hands of no. 19 SUNY-Cortland yesterday.
On March 24, junior infielder Molly O’Donnell stood at the plate down to her last strike with the softball team trailing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. One pitch and 210 feet later, she was able to send the game to extra innings with one swing of her…
For the third consecutive game, the softball team took a lead into the late innings. In all three games, the result has been the same as the Bombers surrendered their late leads twice and were swept in a doubleheader by host University of Rochester on Saturday.
The swimmers on the women’s swimming and diving team propelled their way to strong finishes in individual and team events at the NCAA Championships from last Wednesday to Saturday in Indianapolis, Ind.
The softball team battled the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers in a doubleheader that featured two seventh-inning comebacks today.
Every time junior catcher Lindsey Johnson comes to the plate to hit, she performs the same ritual, touching the second “A” in the middle of her Easton Stealth bat as a tribute to her pony Andy. After this symbolic gesture, she steps into the batter’s box with strength and poise.
After tallying just 24 hits in their first nine games in Florida, the softball team combined for a total of 23 hits winning both games today against the SUNY-Old Westbury Panthers.
The softball team played nine games in a six-day span at the National Training Center in Clermont, Fla. to begin its season.
In addition to the six members of its coaching staff, the softball team will have an extra pair of eyes in the dugout this season in senior shortstop Annmarie Forenza.