Softball Makes It Six Straight Over Harvard

Thursday, April 14

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

3:00 PM

Boston College

11-22

Harvard

22-13

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Harvard	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0
Boston College	2	1	0	0	1	0	X	4	2	1

Softball Makes It Six Straight Over Harvard

April 14, 2011 | Softball

Box Score

April 14, 2011

Box Score

Chestnut Hill, Mass. - Sophomore Maria Pandolfo and junior Lizzy Ploen each blasted home runs to left field, as the Boston College softball team defeated Harvard, 4-1, on Thursday, April 14 at Shea Field. The win marked the sixth consecutive time the Eagles (11-22, 5-6 ACC) have beaten the Crimson (22-13, 6-2 Ivy League).

Freshman Amanda Horowitz tallied her fourth straight game with at least four strike outs to improve to 3-7 on the year. The Westminster, Calif. native gave up five hits, one walk in six innings of work.

Senior Allison Gage retired the side in the seventh to pick up her second save of the season.

Junior Rachel Brown (14-6) shouldered the loss for Harvard, allowing four runs on two hits, striking out four batters and walking a quartet in five innings of work.

Two runs in the first inning proved to be all the offense necessary for the Eagles to claim the victory. Sophomore Nicole D'Argento drew a leadoff walk and took second on junior Ali Lynette-Krech sac bunt. In the midst of Brittany Wilkins at-bat, Brown threw a pitch that got past Allison Scott, enabling D'Argento to hustle around from second for the first run of the game. Wilkins eventually drew a walk, as did clean-up hitter freshman Tory Speer and the two advanced on another wild pitch from Brown. Freshman Ronnie Mae Ayers then stepped up and hit a sac fly to center, plating Wilkins, for the two-run lead.

Pandolfo's fourth dinger of the year hit the scoreboard in left field with force and put Boston College up, 3-0, in the bottom of the second.

The Crimson got on the board in the third. With one out, Emily Henderson hit a slow roller in front of the plate to reach base and advanced on Ellen Macadem's hard liner single hit back at Horowitz. An error from the Eagles loaded the bases for Kasey Lange to drive in a run on a sac fly to center. With Harvard threatening to even the game, Horowitz got Whitney Shaw to fly out to right to end the inning.

The scoring ended in the bottom of the fifth, 4-1. Ploen's second round tripper of the year put the Eagles back up by three and marked just the third time in school history that Boston College has hit 40-or-more home runs in a season.

The Eagles got the Crimson 1-2-3 in the sixth and seventh innings to end the game. BC will resume conference play against Florida State on Saturday, April 16 at 1 p.m. Live stats will be available through GameTracker for the complete three game series.