PURCHASE, NY - The CMSV softball team returned to action Thursday afternoon and won both games of a doubleheader against Purchase College.
The two wins, which came in the Dolphins last at-bat, improve the teams record to 12-12 overall and 9-3 in Skyline play.
CMSV 3 Purchase 2 - Game 1 Final 8 innings
In game one, Dolphins starter
Mackenzie Heizer pitched eight innings allowing two runs (one earned) while striking out six batters, to win her fifth game of the season.
CMSV was held off the scoreboard until the sixth inning when M. Heizer helped her own cause by delivering a sacrifice fly to left field, allowing
Danielle Maffei to score and tie the game at 1-1.
Purchase took the lead back in the top of the seventh inning on an RBI double, CMSV threw out the Panthers potential third run at home.
In the bottom of the seventh,
Kierstyn Bourdeau led-off the inning and belted a home-run to left to tie the game at 2-2.
The Dolphins would win the game in the eighth on a
Katie Moos walk-off homerun to left field to give the Dolphins a 3-2 victory.
CMSV 6 Purchase 5 - Game 2
In game two,
Kathryn Dalton started for CMSV, lasting three innings, allowing six hits and three earned runs.
The Dolphins smacked 15 hits, including four from M. Heizer.
Trailing 3-0 entering the bottom of the fourth,
Rachel Heizer belted a two-run home run, to bring the Dolphins back to within one at 3-2. Later in the inning, with the bases loaded,
Joann Guerra smacked a two-run single through the left side scoring Dalton and M. Heizer to give CMSV a 4-2 lead.
M. Heizer, who came in to relieve Dalton in the fourth, allowed two runs in the fifth putting Purchase back ahead 5-4 but in the bottom of the inning, M. Heizer did it again, singling through the left side, allowing Maffei to score and tie the game.
In the bottom of the seventh, M. Heizer notched a single, then Dalton followed with a double, setting up Bourdeau with two on and one out and the junior delivered, singling home the winning run.
Upcoming Schedule
The Dolphins return to the field Friday for a doubleheader vs. Yeshiva, Saturday they will play two against John Jay and then wrap up the week playing two against Sarah Lawrence.
