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Bombers Head To Empire 8 Championship Round After Elminating St. John Fisher From Softball Playoffs

Kerry Barger had three hits

Alfred, N.Y. -- The softball team (28-13) advanced to the final round at the Empire 8 softball playoffs, Saturday, beating St. John Fisher (25-18) 7-3 in an elimination game. The final round was suspended and moved to Sunday with the Bombers and host Alfred tied 2-2 in the bottom of the third inning. Ithaca, seeded second after losing a coin flip with Alfred – who'd tied the Bombers for the league's regular-season title – need two wins Sunday to claim the Empire 8 title and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs. Alfred needs one victory for the conference crown.

The Bombers exploded for five runs over the third and fourth innings to take control on their way to eliminating the two-time defending Empire 8 champion Cardinals. Junior second baseman Kait Dolan (Victor/Farmington) singled home sophomore shortstop Annemarie Forenza (Hunterdon Central/Whitehouse Station, N.J.) – who'd led off the third with a double – then stole second and scored on single by junior outfielder Brittany Lillie (Honeoye Falls-Lima/Honeoye Falls). Lillie, who advanced to third on the play when the ball was misplayed by the St. John Fisher outfield, scored on a wild pitch.

In the fourth, freshman center fielder Jennifer Biondi (Morris Knolls/Denville, N.J.) led off with a double and scored on another of the Cardinals' three errors. Senior first baseman Caitlin Ryan (Allentown/Clarksburg, N.J.) hit a sacrifice fly to put Ithaca up 5-0.

Junior catcher Kerry Barger (Carmel/Carmel), who collected three of Ithaca's nine hits, scored the Bombers' sixth run and drove in the seventh. In the fifth inning she doubled and scored on a passed ball. An inning later she singled in Ryan.

Forenza collected two hits and Dolan stole a pair of bases. Her total of 15 this spring is the program's seventh-highest single-season total.

Senior Alyssa Brook (Monmouth Regional/Tinton Falls, N.J.) earned her second straight complete-game win; she retired the first six Cardinals to stretch her hitless streak to 11 innings (including Friday's complete-game eight-inning no-hitter against Rochester Institute of Technology). Brook struck out four batters and allowed only one earned run.

 

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