Budrick Homers as Softball Drops a Doubleheader to Finish Season
Central Connecticut dropped its final two games of the season to the Blackbirds of Long Island University. Long Island improved to 34-16 on the season #$%^and 17-3 in the Northeast Conference with the pair of victories and clinched first place for the NEC tournament. Central Connecticut finishes their #$%^season with a 19-31 record on the season and a 7-13 record in the NEC. With the 19 victories on the season Central Connecticut has surpassed the #$%^2007 Blue Devils for the most single season victories since joining the Northeast Conference.
Central Connecticut dropped its final two games of the season to the Blackbirds of Long Island University. Long Island improved to 34-16 on the season and 17-3 in the Northeast Conference with the pair of victories and clinched first place for the NEC tournament. Central Connecticut finishes their season with a 19-31 record on the season and a 7-13 record in the NEC. With the 19 victories on the season Central Connecticut has surpassed the 2007 Blue Devils for the most single season victories since joining the Northeast Conference.
In game one LIU opened the scoring in the top of the second inning scoring an unearned run on the RBI double by junior Bianca Mejia.
Central Connecticut was unable to advance a runner past second base when the Blue Devils threatened in the bottom of the third inning on back to back singles by sophomore Rebecca Mussatti and senior Sara Budrick. it would be the only inning that the Blue Devils would have two base runners.
Long Island scored their second run of the game on a solo home run to center field by senior Mariesha Marker. The Blackbird finished game one with two runs on six hits and no errors to defeat Central Connecticut who would finish with no runs on five hits and one error.
In game two LIU opened the scoring in the top of the first inning on a RBI single to right field by senior Brynn Lewis to score Marker who started the hitting with a single up the middle for the Blackbirds.
LIU continued the hitting in the top of the second inning with a lead off double by junior Amanda MacIntosh followed by a single by freshman Emily Kakuska. Marker then hit a one out three run home run down the right field line to score MacIntosh and Marker and give the Blackbirds the 4-0 lead.
Central Connecticut scored the first of its two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on a one out solo home run to center Field by senior Sarah Budrick to cut into the LIU lead making the game 5-1 at the end of five innings of play.
Central Connecticut scored again in the bottom of the seventh inning when Mussatti began the hitting with a two out single to to the shortstop and then advanced to second base on an overthrow. Mussatti would then score on the RBI single up the middle by Budrick to give the Blue Devils two runs on eight hits and one error in the loss to LIU who finished with five runs on 10 hits and one error.
