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Holly Geranen HR Lehigh
0
Lehigh LEHIGH 31-17
8
Winner Colgate COLGATE 13-29-1
Lehigh LEHIGH
31-17
0
Final
8
Colgate COLGATE
13-29-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
Lehigh LEHIGH 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Colgate COLGATE 1 4 1 2 X 8 7 1

W: Griswold, Kyle (3-10) L: Campbell, Christine (18-5) S: Hay, Jess (1)

12
Winner Lehigh LEHIGH 32-17
4
Colgate COLGATE 13-30-1
Winner
Lehigh LEHIGH
32-17
12
Final
4
Colgate COLGATE
13-30-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Lehigh LEHIGH 4 1 1 0 0 0 6 12 12 0
Colgate COLGATE 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 4 7 4

W: Boyd, Parker (3-5) L: Hay, Jess (3-5)

Game Recap: Softball | | Chelsea Vielhauer

Raiders Shut Out Regular-Season Champ Lehigh in 8-0 Victory

Colgate Hands Mountain Hawks Just Second League Loss of Season

HAMILTON – Colgate used a strong team effort to hand Lehigh its first Patriot League run-rule loss in eight years Sunday afternoon as the Raiders pounded out an 8-0 five-inning victory at Eaton Street Field.
 
The 8-0 win came in the completion of a game two that was suspended in the bottom of the second inning Saturday and completed Sunday. The regular-season champion Mountain Hawks rebounded for a 12-4 victory in the series finale.
 
The two games Sunday wrapped up Colgate's 2017 season and marked the final contests for the three Raider seniors: Katie Bushee, Tara Grennan and Gillian Murray. 
 
The day's opener, the second contest of the series, picked up where it left off in the bottom of the second inning as the Raiders held a 2-0 lead and the bases loaded with two outs. Colgate held that 2-0 advantage thanks to a solo home run from sophomore Lauren La Terra in the first inning and a Bushee RBI hit by pitch in the second.
 
Once play resumed Sunday, first-year Virginia Irby stepped up to the plate and drew a bases-loaded walk before La Terra roped a two-run single to extend the Colgate advantage to 5-0 through two frames.
 
Junior Kyle Griswold got the starting nod in the circle, surrendering just one hit before leaving the game with an injury. First-year Jessica Hay came on in relief in the top of the third and pitched out of a bases-loaded jam to keep Colgate ahead 5-0.
 
The Raiders added a run in the bottom of the third on an RBI single from sophomore Pami White. Junior Holly Geranen then drilled a no-doubter over the scoreboard in left field in the following frame to propel the Raiders to an 8-0 lead.
 
Hay took care of the rest, keeping the Mountain Hawks hitless for the final two innings to secure the 8-0 five-inning victory.
 
Lehigh put Colgate in an early 4-0 hole in the series finale as a grand slam from Carolyn Wright got the Mountain Hawks on the board in the first inning. Lehigh then used a sacrifice fly to add a single run in the second before scoring an unearned tally in the third to stretch its lead to 6-0.
 
Colgate got on the board in the bottom of the third when Irby doubled home Bushee. Geranen then led off the following frame with her second dinger of the day to pull the Raiders within 6-2 through four innings.  
 
First-year pitcher Brittany Bendel kept Lehigh off the board from the fourth through sixth innings. Colgate was then able to pull within two of Lehigh in the bottom of the sixth thanks to Miller's third home run of the weekend, this one a two-run shot to center that put the score at 6-4.
 
The Mountain Hawks answered in the top of the seventh with six runs to put the game out of reach and cement the 12-4 victory in the rubber game. 
 
 
BOTTOM LINES
  • Colgate 8, Lehigh 0 (5 innings)
  • Lehigh 12, Colgate 4
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
  • The Raiders end their season at 13-30-1 overall and 3-15 in the Patriot League.
  • Patriot League regular-season champion Lehigh moves to 32-17 on the season and 16-2 in the league.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
  • Colgate's win in the opener snapped Lehigh's 12-game win streak. It was Lehigh's first run-rule loss in league action since April 19, 2009 when the Mountain Hawks fell 10-1 in five innings at Bucknell.
  • The Raiders were also the first Patriot League team to shut out Lehigh since April 27, 2016 when the Mountain Hawks fell 2-0 to Boston University.
  • Colgate handed Lehigh pitcher Christine Campbell her first Patriot League loss of the season. Campbell was previously 8-0 in eight appearances in league play.
  • Bushee finishes her career in the Maroon and White with a school-record 71 stolen bases. The mark is tied for fourth in the Patriot League record book.
  • Bushee also graduates as the program record holder in career triples with 14. Her career numbers rank in the top ten in program history in batting average, at-bats, runs, hits, doubles and total bases.
  • Grennan wraps up her career with 15 home runs, which ranks tenth in the program record books.
  • Murray was the exemplary student-athlete during her time at Colgate, proving to be one of the most versatile players on the field while holding a 3.79 cumulative GPA as a Molecular Biology major.
  • La Terra went 3-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored in the opener.
  • Geranen's two home runs moved her season total to eight while her career mark now sits at 16.
  • Miller wraps up her strong freshman campaign with eight home runs.
 
FACTS & FIGURES
  • The Raiders finished the series with a 6-2 home run advantage. Colgate finishes the season with a league-leading 29 home runs.
  • The Mountain Hawks held a slim 15-14 hit advantage on the day.
  • Only eight of Lehigh's 12 runs in the two games combined were earned.
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