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RANDALL'S ISLAND, N.Y.— The John Jay softball team closed out its 2013 home and conference schedule with a pair of losses on Friday afternoon as the Bloodhounds were swept in a doubleheader by Hunter College, losing the first game 9-2 and a second game 15-4.
 
With the losses, John Jay is now 9-16-1 overall and end the 2013 City University of New York Athletic Conference regular season with a 4-8 record. Hunter improves its record to 8-24 overall and 4-6 in CUNYAC.
 
Hunter took a 4-0 lead after the first two innings. The visiting Hawks scored a pair of runs in the first and two more in the second to lead with that score. But the Bloodhounds pulled even in the bottom of the third with one swing of the bat as Ashley Kersting blasted a two run homer to left-centerfield to make the score 4-2 Hunter after three innings.
 
But John Jay never got another run across, while Hunter added two more runs in the fourth and three in the sixth to lead 9-2.
 
The Bloodhounds were outhit 10-3 by Hunter. Kersting got two of the three John Jay hits in game one, one being the homerun and the other a double in the first inning. Kalyssa Daley registered the Bloodhounds' other hit.
 
John Jay made nine errors in the first game, which led to eight of the nine Hunter runs being unearned.
 
All of Hunter's 10 game one hits were singles, and the Hawks got two hits from Molly Meehan, Megan O'Shea, Sophia Ponce and Angelica Iacovetti. Meehan scored four times in the first game, while O'Shea had three runs batted in.
 
Sara McKenna picked up the game one loss after going 7.0 innings and allowing nine runs (one earned) on 10 hits. Iacovetti pitched game one for Hunter and got the win after striking out 11 batters, while allowing two runs on three hits.
 
In game two, John Jay struck first and took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Jocelyn Ocasio placed a one out bunt single to get on base. Then a single by Kersting advanced Ocasio to third. But on the throw to third, Kersting took second. Then a throw back to second allowed Ocasio to scamper home. Then moments later Kersting scored after Kaylee Fry, who walked to get on base, was caught stealing.
 
The Bloodhounds took the two run lead into the third inning, when the Hawks scored a pair to tie the game. Then in the fourth inning, Hunter scored five times to go ahead 7-2.
 
John Jay fought back and cut the deficit to 7-4 in the bottom of the fifth. First, a double by Lana Kovac scored Jamie Lam. Then a double by Kersting scored Kovac.
 
But Hunter got those two runs back in the top of the sixth, before scoring six more in the top of the seventh to take an 11 run lead.
 
Kersting was 3-for-3 in the second game to cap off a big afternoon that saw her go a combined 5-for-6 with two doubles, a homerun, two runs and three runs batted in. Meanwhile Kovac went 2-for-4 in the second game, while Ocasio, Lam and McKenna had one hit each.
 
Hunter had 18 hits in game two, and six of the nine players in the starting lineup had at least two. Sophia Ponce led the Hunter attack in game two by going 3-for-5 with a double, two runs and five runs batted in. O'Shea also went 3-for-5 and had a double, two runs and three runs batted in.
 

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