Brooklyn, NY---Despite some solid hitting, the Brooklyn College softball team dropped both games of their CUNYAC opener to Hunter at home on Wednesday. The Bulldogs were out-gunned 18-5 (5 Innings) in Game 1 before dropping the nightcap, 11-0 (6 Innings). BC drops to 0-6 to start the season while Hunter snapped a seven-game skid to improve to 3-7 in their conference opener as well. The Bulldogs continue their conference slate at home on Friday against Baruch. First pitch of the CUNYAC doubleheader is slated for 4:30 pm.
Trailing the Hawks 3-0 in the bottom of the first inning in Game 1, the Bulldogs scored their first run of the season on a sacrifice bunt laid down perfectly by senior third baseman,
Kayla Trembone, scoring
Stella Witkowski who tripled to lead BC off in the inning. Hunter responded with five runs in the second inning.
Chanel Jemmott led things off for BC in the second inning and would eventually score on a groundout with one out, cutting the HC lead to 8-2 after the second. Hunter tacked on three more runs in the third inning and four in the fourth before the Bulldogs had a three-run inning led off by a
Carolina Alfonso single.
Megan Ortiz-Mengedoht would move her to second with a single of her own. Both baserunners would advance on a groundout before Witkowski crushed her second triple of the game, driving in both baserunners. She would score as Trembone reached on an error.
Witkowski went 2-3 with two RBI and scored two runs in Game 1. Alfonso went 3-3 for the game with double. Hunter's Nicole Bowe and Sophia Perez both went 4-4 for the game scoring five runs each. Bowe also had four RBI.
In Game 2, Hunter starting pitcher, Alyssa Curiale, earned her first win of the season by hurling a shutout in six innings of work while striking out 12 BC batters. Brooklyn starting pitcher,
Danielle Guzzardi, pitched a solid game in her second of the day, but the Hawks' bats came alive in the fifth and sixth innings, combining for eight runs. Guzzardi had both of the Bulldogs hits for the game offensively. Curiale and Olivia Palumbo both went 3-4 for Hunter while Perez scored three runs with three more hits for the day.
