By: By Michael L. Damon
Game 1
Game 2
Old Westbury, N.Y. – The John Jay softball team lost a tremendous heartbreaker in eight innings in game one of a doubleheader, before mounting a big rally in game two only for the game to be called by darkness as the Bloodhounds were defeated by SUNY Old Westbury 4-3 and 9-7 on Thursday.
In the opening game John Jay starting pitcher,
Angela Lam (Brooklyn, NY, Newtown) went toe to toe with the host Panthers.
John Jay failed to get a hit or a base runner over through the first 4.1 innings as John Jay trailed 1-0 after four frames.
The Bloodhounds capitalized once they got their first base runner. With one out in the fifth,
Christina Perez (Brooklyn, NY, James Madison) drew a walk, and scored from second with two outs on an RBI single, the first hit of the game for John Jay, by
Marlenne Nunez (Bronx, NY, Bronx Leadership Academy) to tie the score at 1-1.
Neither team scored a run through the rest of the scheduled seven innings and the score remained 1-1. SUNY Old Westbury left the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh before going into the eighth.
Nunez, who was 2-for-3 with a run and two RBI in the opener, doubled home Perez in the eighth ti give John Jay a 2-1 lead. The next batter,
Marina Gomez (Bronx, NY, DeWitt Clinton), laced a single to drive in Nunez, giving the Bloodhounds a 3-1 advantage.
But John Jay failed to even record an out in the bottom of the seventh as SUNY Old Westbury proceeded to score three unearned runs as John Jay, who committed five errors in the game, committed three alone in the eighth, which extensively unlocked the floodgates for the Panthers who came away with the game one win.
In the second game, Old Westbury, via a grand slam homerun, took a 4-0 lead after the first inning. The Panthers scored another run in the second to go up 5-0 after two.
But John Jay scored a pair in the third after a two run single by
Danielle Bonici (Staten Island, NY, St. Peter's Girls) scored
Nelly Vega (Bronx, NY, In-Tech Academy) and
Krystal Class.
With four more runs in the bottom of the fourth, the Panthers held a 9-2 lead.
But John Jay fought back with a five run fifth inning to close the gap to 9-7 before the darkness, for the second time this week, proved too much to overcome.
John Jay returns to action in Sat. Apr. 4 at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at noon.
