BOSTON, Mass. – Boston took both ends of Saturday's Patriot League softball doubleheader vs. the Leopards, winning 8-0 and 11-0.
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The offense was clicking for the Terriers who ran their season record to 30-2 and 19-1 in Patriot League play. Â Â
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In the series opener, Boston U. broke open a one-run game with four runs on six hits in the third inning off Leopard starter
Kailee Sawai. Aliyah Huerta-Leipner doubled in the first run of the inning and later stole home to help push her team to a 5-0 lead through three frames.
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The hosts finished things with three runs on three hits in the fourth for the 8-0 final.
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Natasha Miner had two of the Leopards' three hits in opener with singles in the first and third innings, and
Julia Roman had an infield single in the fifth.
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In game two, BU scored in every inning. The Terriers scored three runs in the first off Leopard starter
Hannah Cook. Huerta-Leipner (double), Emily Gant (triple) and Jen Horitz (single) all drove in runs in the early rally.
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Boston plated five more runs in the second inning to pull away following two-run doubles by Liza Avery and Nicole Amodio. The Terriers added two in the third inning and one in the fourth frame.
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Miner had her second two-hit game of the afternoon while
Morgan Olynyk's single in the second inning accounted for the Leopards' other hit off BU starter Avery.
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Lafayette had its best scoring chance in the fifth, loading the bases with two outs following a
Jasmine Nguyen walk, Miner single and a
Julia Romano base on balls. The game and the potential scoring chance ended with a 6-5 groundout.
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The teams will wrap up the series on Sunday with a doubleheader beginning at noon.
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