HAMILTON – Nora Megenity slammed her 15th home run of the season as part of a two-hit performance, but Colgate Softball dropped both ends of Saturday's doubleheader to Boston University, 5-3 and 10-0, at Eaton Street Softball Complex.
Megenity led the offense with two hits and provided all the scoring with three RBIs in Game 1. The junior is one home run away from tying Melissa Rawson's single-season program record of 16 homers set in 2003.
Game 1 | Boston U 5, Colgate 3
Boston U scored single runs in the second and third. Livia Christopher singled home Camryn Lyons before an RBI double from Kyomi Apalit gave the visitors a 2-0 lead. Colgate starting pitcher Maya Servedio stranded the bases loaded in the second to limit the early damage.
Marina Taveras led off the bottom of the fourth with a single up the middle for Colgate's first hit, but the Raiders wouldn't capitalize until the fifth. Mackenzie Lewis ripped a double to left field and scored on an RBI single by Megenity to pull the Raiders within 4-1.
Boston U's Kieren McHugh opened the sixth with a solo homer to right, which would prove to be an important run. Megenity drilled a two-run homer to right-center in the bottom of the seventh, closing the Raiders within 5-3, but a flyout sealed the victory for the Terriers.
Megenity provided Colgate's scoring, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs including her 15th home run of the season. Taveras and Lewis added the other two hits for the Raiders. Megenity's home run extended Colgate's streak of consecutive games with a home run to nine.
Servedio shouldered the loss, yielding four runs on eight hits with four strikeouts and six walks in 4 2/3 innings. Alexa Acker allowed one earned run and struck out one in 2 1/3 relief innings.
Game 2 | Boston U 10, Colgate 0 (5)
Boston U took control of the nightcap with seven runs in the second inning, which was plenty for pitcher Kasey Richard, who went the distance and did not allow a hit. She pitched to contact – finishing with three strikeouts and no walks.
Taveras reached on an infield error in the fourth, but a strikeout ended the inning and stranded Colgate's lone baserunner of the contest. The Raiders hit the ball hard twice in the last half of the fifth with a pair of lineouts concluding the five-inning affair.
UP NEXT
Colgate (20-20, 7-4 PL) and Boston University (32-11, 10-1 PL) wrap up their three-game series Sunday with first pitch from Eaton Street Complex set for 12 noon.
