VESTAL, N.Y. — The Stony Brook softball team had to wait a day to get its two games with Binghamton in, but they still were able to sweep their Southern Tier foes, knocking off the Bearcats 8-1 and 4-2 to secure the series victory.
The Seawolves defense was stout on Sunday, allowing just two runs over the 12 innings played to aid the cause.
Dawn Bodrug finished both contests, throwing the final five innings of game one and closing out game two with a pair of frames work, striking out 14 in total and allowing just one run.
GAME 1: STONY BROOK – 8, BINGHAMTON – 1
- Alicia Orosco and Kyra McFarland started the scoring in the second, with Orosco lacing a two-run double to right center and McFarland following up with a single in the same direction, giving the Seawolves a 3-0 lead.
- After Binghamton answered in the bottom half, the game was suspended to the next day, due to weather.
- Stony Brook's offense came alive in the seventh, as Corinne Badger started the scoring and then four consecutive Seawolves, Catherine Kupinski, Lindsey Osmer, Brooke Dye and Sofia Chambers, all knocked in a run with a RBI single.
- Chambers had a pair of knocks, her fourth multi-hit game of the season. She did not have a multi-knock performance a season ago.
- Bodrug's CG is her 16th of the season and 41st of her Seawolves career. Her 16 strikeouts are two off her collegiate-best of 18 at Providence on April 9 and her 12th game of 10 or more strikeouts this season.
GAME 2: STONY BROOK – 4, BINGHAMTON – 2
- Shelbi Denman earned the start in game two, throwing five innings of one-run ball and scattering four hits for her seventh win of the season. She has continued to drop her ERA, sending it down 0.97 points over her last seven outings. The righty has a 2.00 ERA over her last three outings.
- Bodrug finished off the final two innings, recording her second save of the season. She struck out three over the final two innings, holding the Bearcats to one run.
- Three of the four Seawolves runs came in the fifth, as Alyssa Costello doubled home Orosco before Corinne Badger parked her 14th home run of the season over the wall, giving the visitors the advantage for good. That mark brings her into a tie for sixth all time for a single season, matching Hayley Durham's 2004 tally.
- Chambers added a knock in a 1-for-3 effort, extending her team-best hitting streak to eight games.
- The top five of the Seawolves ordered each recorded a hit, combining for a 6-for-16 effort with all four Stony Brook runs.
NEXT UP
Stony Brook has a pair of non-conference double dips on the docket this week, heading to Fairleigh Dickinson for a pair of games on Tuesday before hosting Manhattan for two on Thursday. First pitch of each day is slated for 2 p.m.
