May 10, 2025
Softball Sees 2025 Season End On Late LIU Rally At NEC Championship
Blue Devils Close Out The 2025 Campaign With A 20-30 Overall Mark
The Central Connecticut State University softball team saw its 2025 season come to a close late on Saturday afternoon, as the top-seeded Sharks of LIU came back to score three runs in the top of seventh inning on a pair of home runs and held CCSU scoreless in the bottom of the frame to post an 8-6 win in an elimination game at the Northeast Conference Championship Tournament. With the loss, Central closes out its 2025 campaign at 20-30 overall, and LIU moves onto the final day of action in the championship with a 26-22 mark.
NEC CHAMPIONSHIP DAY TWO vs. LIU| BOX SCORE
Score: LIU 8, CCSU 6
Records: CCSU (20-30, 13-8 NEC), LIU (26-22, 16-5 NEC)
Location: LIU Softball Complex|Brooklyn, N.Y.
KEY MOMENTS FROM SATURDAY'S ACTION VERSUS LIU:
- Playing as the home team in their second game of the day on Saturday, the Blue Devils saw the Sharks jump out to a 2-0 lead with a pair of runs in the top of the second inning.
- CCSU would cut that lead in half to 2-1 in the bottom of the second when Skylar Warn drove in a run on a sacrifice fly.
- Central would grab its first lead of the day at 3-2 after three innings, when the Blue Devils scored twice on a fielders' choice ground out by Grace Lawton and a steal of home by Reagan Vunak.
- LIU would come back to take a 5-3 lead in the top of the fourth inning, as the Sharks scored three times.
- The Blue Devils would score the next three runs in the contest to take a 6-5 lead after six innings, as CCSU tied the game at 5-5 with two runs in the bottom of the fifth on RBI-doubles by Kassandra (KC) Machado and Grace Lawton and took a 6-5 lead in the next inning on an RBI-single by Joslyn Teal.
- LIU would then come back with a two-run home run followed by a solo homer with one out in the top of the seventh to take an 8-6 lead which proved to the final score.
- Senior Alina Varga (7-15) would take the loss late on Saturday afternoon allowing eight runs on 12 hits with four walks and one strikeout over seven innings of work.
- As a team, CCSU closed out the 2025 season with a 10-hit offensive attack led by a 3-for-4 performance by Grace Lawton and a pair of hits from Ashlyn Desaulniers.
