Brooklyn, NY---The Brooklyn College softball team dropped both games of a non-conference doubleheader this evening at home against Cairn University. BC fell to the Highlanders 9-1 in the first game and 19-8 in the second. Brooklyn drops to 2-14 overall in defeat. Cairn improved to 9-9 with the wins. The Bulldogs take to the road to Texas for a doubleheader at Austin College on Thursday. Brooklyn returns to conference play at York on Saturday.
With Cairn leading 2-1 in the top of the fifth inning in Game 1, the Highlanders exploded for seven runs in the top of the inning for the final score, which ended after the bottom of the fifth.
Trailing 1-0 following the top of the first inning, the Bulldogs responded in the bottom of the inning. Freshman center fielder,
Leslie Lima, led the Bulldogs off with a single and was able to reach third on an error. Two batters later, sophomore catcher,
Shakira Feliciano, drove Lima home with an RBI single.
Cairn took a 2-1 in the top of the second inning on an RBI single hit by Katelynn Reiss.
In Game 2, the Highlanders once again struck relaively late in the game, scoring 12 runs in the top of the fifth inning.
The Bulldogs would find themselves in a 6-0 hole halfway through the second inning. BC would rally, starting with a three-run homer hit by freshman pitcher
Anna Curran. Lima would drive sophomore
Brianna Preston home with an RBI single to cut the Cairn lead to 6-4. Junior third baseman
Nicole Boudouris would drive sophomore outfielder Daminska Estime home on a RBI single. Lima tied the game crossing home on a Feliciano ground-out.
Following a Cairn run in the top of the fourth inning, the Bulldogs took an 8-7 lead scoring a couple of runs in the bottom of the inning. Freshman infielder
Dina Nguyen led BC off with a single. Nguyen and Boudouris would eventually score by way of a 2-RBI single hit by sophomore outfielder
Angelica Cornier.
Lima finished the evening going 3-7 with two runs scored. Cornier was 2-3 in Game 2 with 2 RBIs. She also scored a run.
