Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Brooklyn, NY---The Brooklyn College Softball Team staged two late-inning comebacks to edge visiting Hunter 2-1 and 4-3, in dramatic fashion on Wednesday evening.  The wins were big for BC as they improved to 6-4 in the conference standings and clinched the #3 seed in the upcoming CUNYAC Tournament.  Overall the Bulldogs improve to 16-11 on the season while Hunter falls to
6-24, 2-6 CUNYAC.

The Hawks jumped out to early leads in both games, but did all of their scoring in the first inning, going scoreless for the remainder of both games.

In game one, Hunter jumped out to a 1-0 lead as a Sophia Ponce RBI triple put them out ahead. There would be no more scoring by either team until the bottom of the fifth as Brooklyn's Norah Marley reached on an error and then Kim Konklewski hit a two-run inside the park home run to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 advantage.  Konklewski was nearly tagged out at the plate, however Hunter catcher Nicole Filliseti could not hang on to the ball as she applied the tag.

The one run lead was all BC hurler Kayla Hill would need, as the sophomore only allowed four hits and one run en route to her seventh win of the season.

Game two saw the Hunter bats wake up in the first inning once again, however this time they struck for three runs, with the big hit, a two-run single, coming off the bat of Holly Isenberg. 

Brooklyn would chip away with a run in the third and another in the fifth to cut the deficit to 3-2, but would enter the bottom of the seventh still behind by a run. 

In that seventh, Kimberly Brennan, who was pinch hitting, worked a lead-off walk, and then was pinch run for by Nathalie DeJesus.  Marley executed a perfect sacrifice bunt that, and the Hunter pitcher, Erika Colangelo overthrew first base, allowing DeJesus to get to third and Marley to get to second base.  Konklewski, the hero in game one, came to the plate next, however she could not duplicate her game one heroics and popped out to the shortstop. 

Hill, the pitching star of game one, would be next up to bat for BC, and got the biggest hit of the game, singling in DeJesus to tie the game.  Hill would then steal second base, setting the stage for Stephanie Caravello, the number three hitter in the lineup.  Caravello hit the ball hard, but right at the third basemen for the second out, sending up the cleanup hitter, Samantha Rodriguez.  Rodriguez, after a long at bat where she worked the count full, hit a grounder to second, but Hunter's Molly Meehan misplayed the ball and Marley came across to score the game-winner.

"Even though we started each game behind, we picked each other up and were able to prove that we are her to play and not give up," said Marley, the senior captain of the squad.  "Tonight's game was a big win and shows our true ability to achieve what we are capable of."

Marie Oneto, who shut down the Hawk lineup after giving up three in the first, earned the win for Brooklyn.

Next of for BC, a non-conference tilt with borough rival St. Joseph's, at Brooklyn College Field on Friday at 5 pm.