York’s Offense Explodes in Doubleheader against Sarah Lawrence
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – The York College softball team put two victories in the win column Sunday afternoon, taking both games of the doubleheader in explosive fashion at Sarah Lawrence. The Cardinals took game one, 12-1, and followed up with a 22-2 victory in the nightcap.
The Cardinals (5-18) struck first with a first-inning RBI double off the bat of
Danielle Dunn and never looked back.
Meriem Alahiane led the Cardinals offense, going 3-4 at the plate with two steals and scoring three runs.
Conetia Anderson also carried a hot bat, going 2-4 with three RBI.
York all but secured the victory with a seven run sixth inning capped off by
Thessaly Belizario's three-run homerun.
Kimberly Barnes pitched four solid innings for the Cardinals, allowing only two hits, one earned run, and three strikeouts. Belizario came in relief and held off the Gryphons, allowing only one hit while striking out two.
Sarah Lawrence's troubles this season continued, committing five errors in the field, which ultimately led to 11 unearned runs. The Gryphons only run came off an RBI single down the leftfield line off the bat of Lauren Gray (1-3), scoring Xina Graham-Vannais. Rebecca Kuntz finished the six-inning complete game with two strikeouts and was only charged with one earned run.
Sarah Lawrence (0-17) showed to be unfazed by the game one loss, getting on the scoreboard first in game two. Hannah Gordon led off the bottom of the first by reaching on a Cardinal error. Eventually ending up on third after a steal and wild pitch, and scored the game's first run on an infield grounder by Gray.
York came right back with some hot bats, knocking around Gryphon's pitcher Anhad Hundal for five runs in each of the second, third, and fourth innings. Hundal struggled on the mound but completed the game allowing 16 earned runs off 23 hits.
Belizario's hot bat stuck around for game two as she hit her second homerun of the day and went 3-5 with five RBI. She also dominated on the mound, hurling four strong innings of two hit softball while sitting down three.
Geneva Faulk and
Joviette Frederick both had multi-hit games and batted in four runs each.
Karen Werner also had an impressive day at the plate, going 4-5 with three RBI and four runs scored.
The Cardinals will look to keep the momentum rolling Monday when they host Brooklyn College in a conference battle at 4:00 p.m.
