Bellerose, NY---The Brooklyn College softball team picked up their first two conference wins of the season this afternoon at York College.  In Game 1, the Bulldogs pulled out a an extra innings, 11-8, win in the eighth inning.  BC closed out the sweep with a come-from-behind 12-11 victory in Game 2.  Brooklyn improves to 4-16 and 2-6 in CUNYAC with the wins.  York dropped to 0-14 and 0-8.  

Trailing 5-3 heading into the seventh inning, the Bulldogs scored four runs in the top of the inning to take a 7-5 lead.  York fork forced the extra inning scoring a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh.  Brooklyn scored four more runs in the top of the eighth including an RBI single hit by junior third baseman Nicole Boudouris that drove freshman centerf fielder Leslie Lima who walked to start the inning, home.  Boudouris would eventually score herself on a throwing error.  

The Cardinals jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning until BC scored a run each in the second and third innings to tie the game in the top of the third.  Brooklyn took a 3-2 lead in the top of the fifth inning on a throwing error scoring freshman infielder Anna Curran who singled to lead off the inning.  

Sophomore pitcher Uena Xharo picked up her second win of the season, pitching all eight innings allowing the eight runs (three earned), striking out seven in the game.  Curran would go 2-3 with a double, driving in three runs, and scored two runs herself.  

With the Bulldogs leading 7-1 heading into the bottom of the fourth inning, the home team scored eight runs to take a 9-7 lead.  BC cut the Cardinal lead to 9-8 with a run in the top of the fifth before York responded with two runs to take an 11-8 lead.  The Bulldogs scored their first run in the sixth inning on an RBI ground-out hit by sophomore outfielder Angelica Cornier that drove sophomore catcher Shakira Feliciano who was hit by a pitch to start the top of the inning.  It would be Curran again who came through in the clutch, hitting an RBI single that drove sophomore outfielder Daminska Estime home.  Still trailing by a run in the top of the seventh, junior infielder Breanna Maresca reached on a fielder's choice that Boudouris home to tie the game, 11-11.  Cornier then reached on an error that brought Maresca home for the go-ahead run.  The Cardinals would go down in order in the bottom of the seventh to give BC the win.  

Xharo picked up her second win of the day pitching two runs in relief, giving up a hit and no runs in two innings of work.  Curran, who was BC's starting pitcher in Game 2 finished 3-5 for the game with a double, an RBI, and scored two more runs on the day herself.  Bourdouris was 2-4 with a triple, a RBI, and crossed home three times.