Game 1
Game 2
Kings Point, N.Y.— The John Jay softball team lost a pair of games on Saturday as the Bloodhounds fell to the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in a doubleheader, losing the first game 10-0 and the second game 19-9.
The Bloodhounds are now 9-13 on the season while the Mariners improved to 9-12 overall.
In the first game, the Bloodhounds registered one hit, a third inning single by
Angela Lam (Brooklyn, NY, Newtown), and were limited to four base runners.
The host Mariners, playing as the visiting team due to the game originally being scheduled as a home event for the Bloodhounds, scored three runs in the top of the first and two more in the third to go up 5-0 after three innings.
USMMA then scored another five in the sixth frame to take a 10-0 advantage and win via the mercy rule after six innings.
Meanwhile Mariners' ace pitcher,
Jess LaValley helped her cause going 3-for-4 in game one and finishing a single shy of the cycle. She scored three times and drove in five runs. USMMA had 13 hits total and got three from
Laurellee Kopras who was 3-for-4.
Pitching wise, LaValley earned the win after going 6.0 innings and allowing no runs on one hit and struck out 11 batters.
Lam suffered the loss in the first game.
In game two, the Bloodhounds scored a run in the bottom of the first and another in the bottom of the second to take a 2-0 lead. A throwing error by the Mariners allowed lead-off batter,
Krystal Class (Brooklyn, NY, New Utrecht), who singled to start the inning, to score from third. Then in the second, John Jay scored when Class hit a double to score
Sarah Balgobin (South Ozone Park, NY, John Adams).
USMMA scored a run in the top of the third, but John Jay countered with a run of its own to go back up by two. Class picked up her second RBI of the game when she singled home
Marina Gomez (Bronx, NY, DeWitt Clinton).
But the Mariners took their first lead of the game with four runs in the top of the fourth. LaValley hit her second home run of the afternoon, this one down the left field line that cleared the fence by plenty to get hosts back to within a run. The inning was capped on an RBI single by
Sarah Marino to put USMMA up 5-3.
John Jay battled right back in the bottom half to tie the score. Gomez registered her first of two doubles in the nightcap. This one scored
Kim Bifulco (Staten Island, NY, St. John Villa) and
Nina Chao (Woodside, NY, W.C. Bryant).
The Bloodhounds though, gave up 10 runs in the top of the fifth and fell behind 15-5. USMMA sent 13 batters to the plate, and the inning was capped by
Cheyanne Loppnow who blasted a home run, a two run shot, to put the Mariners up by 10.
Facing a mercy rule loss, the Bloodhounds scored three runs in the inning to keep the game alive. Lam hit a ground ball to second that appeared to be a sure out, but a bobble of the ball, added with a no stop hustle by Lam got the Bloodhounds a leadoff base runner. After two straight strikeouts,
Christina Perez (Brooklyn, NY, James Madison) launched her second homerun of the season to get the Bloodhounds within eight. Then the next batter, Bifulco, kept the game alive with one swing of the bat with a solo shot to pull to within seven.
After the Mariners went quietly in the top of the sixth, John Jay edged closer when an RBI ground out by
Kaitlyn Walsh (Valley Stream, NY, Valley Stream Central) scored Gomez, who led off the inning with a double.
But USMMA scored four more times in the top of the seventh, including a two-run homer by
Kaitlyn Robbins, and John Jay could not overcome.
The Bloodhounds had 14 hits and had a 3-for-4 performance by Gomez with two runs and two RBI. Meanwhile Class and Perez both went 3-for-5 with a run each and a pair of RBI.
LaValley who was 3-for-5 for USMMA in game two with thre runs and two RBI. Robbins was 4-for-5 with two doubles, a homerun, four runs and three RBI. Marino and Loppnow had three hits each, while Marino had four RBI.
John Jay returns to action on Wed. Apr. 21 against St. Joseph's-Long Island at a site to be determined at a time to be determined.
