Boxscore Game 1
Boxscore Game 2
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. – Five Deacon homeruns led to a Bloomfield sweep of Goldey-Beacom College, 3-1, 10-7 in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference action on Sat. at Clarks Field.
The Deacons moved into seventh place in the league standings with a record of 14-10 while GBC fell into 10th place with a record of 7-11.
Three solo homeruns by three different Deacon players accounted for all of Bloomfield's runs in a 3-1 game one victory, and a five-run bottom of the fourth opened up an 8-2 advantage which allowed the Deacons to hang on to win, 10-7 in the nightcap.
Game 1:
Starting pitchers Sadie Jones and Ashleigh Williams locked into an early pitchers' duel as the game was scoreless through three innings. Williams helped her own cause by putting Bloomfield on the board in the bottom of the fourth inning with a solo homerun to left center field.
Jones (1-2) would get saddled with the loss despite giving up just one earned run on two hits and two walks while striking out two in four innings pitched.
In the bottom of the fifth inning with junior Shannon O'Hara on in relief, Kira Wagar led off the frame with a solo homer to extend the lead to 2-0.
O'Hara made it through the rest of the fifth unharmed, but Krystina Poloni went deep to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning, and Bloomfield had a 3-0 lead after six innings played.
The Lightning tried to rally in the top of the seventh, beginning with a leadoff single by junior Jordan Waterloo. Junior Danie Rice earned a free-pass on her team-leading 13th walk of the season and moved Waterloo over to second, and GBC had runners on first and second with nobody out.
GBC head coach Bill Streets called on O'Hara to pinch hit, and her groundout to first base enabled both runners to move up a base to second and third. The next batter, sophomore Angelina Myers, reached on an error to load the bases as the top of the Lightning order was coming up with just one out.
Junior Shannon Graves brought home Waterloo on a sacrifice fly to left field to make it 3-1, but the Lightning were down to their last out with runners on first and second. BC relief pitcher Lindsey Ciresa ended the game by striking out freshman Michelle Foster for the final out.
Game 2:
Bloomfield scored early and often in game two, giving GBC senior starting pitcher Heather Draper fits right from the outset.
The Deacons plated one run on two hits, including an RBI double by Poloni to bring home Angie Yoshizu in the bottom of the first to take a 1-0 lead.
After a second scoreless frame by the Lightning, BC added two more runs in the bottom of the second inning on two hits and one GBC error.
Neither team scored in the third inning, but the Lightning got on the board in the top of the fourth with two runs on solo homeruns by both freshman Roni Peters and Rice. The two homers brought the Lightning within a run with the score, 3-2.
But Bloomfield would open up an 8-2 lead with a five-run rally in the bottom of the fourth, courtesy of three hits, including a solo homerun by Bianka Cosme.
After Cosme's one-out blast, Draper was pulled out of the game for sophomore reliever Ashley Antosh. The hard-throwing sophomore right-hander allowed four runs (three earned) on two hits and two walks and was unable to record an out as she was taken out and relieved by game one starter, Jones.
With the bases loaded, Jones walked her first two batters to let two more runs score, but settled down to record the next two outs, with only one more run coming in on a fielder's choice play.
Foster's two-out solo shot in the top of the fifth made it 8-3. Then, the Lightning struck for four runs on five hits in the top of the sixth to pull within one. Peters singled and junior Cailin Cavanaugh walked to start things off.
Then after freshman Ashley Zaccaria popped up to the catcher, Rice singled to bring home Peters from second. O'Hara then brought home Cavanaugh from second with an RBI single, and pinch runner Leanne Miller advanced to second. Miller would come around to score the third run of the inning on the third consecutive Lightning hit by Myers.
The hit parade continued as the next batter, Graves, ripped a double to bring O'Hara home from second and advance Myers to third. Foster walked to load the bases with still only one out, but Waterloo popped up to the pitcher and Peters grounded out to the pitcher for the final two outs of the inning as GBC left three runners stranded while still trailing by a run.
Up 8-7 heading into the bottom of the sixth, Bloomfield added two insurance runs courtesy of the second homerun of the day by Wagar, a two-run shot with two outs.
The Lightning went down in order in the bottom of the seventh as they fell by a final count of 10-7.
