Friday, May 7
Buffalo, N.Y.
1:00 p.m.
Bowling Green State University
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Seniors Power Falcons To Split With Buffalo
May 07, 2010 | Softball
Game 1 Boxscore - Bowling Green 5, Buffalo 3
Game 2 Boxscore - Buffalo 4, Bowling Green 3 (9 innings)
Buffalo, N.Y. – With their collegiate softball careers coming down to the final week of the regular season, Bowling Green's two seniors provided a jolt of power as the Falcons split a doubleheader with Buffalo Friday afternoon to keep their hopes of advancing to the MAC Tournament alive. BGSU won the opener 5-3 before a hard-fought 4-3 loss in nine innings in the nightcap.
Seniors Susan Sontag and Karmen Coffey each homered in the opener, combining to drive in all five of the team's runs. Coffey was especially effective, hitting a three-run homer in the fifth to turn a 3-2 deficit into a 5-3 lead. She also had an RBI single in the third to tie the score at 2-2. Sontag's homer got the scoring started as she led off the second with a bomb.
Bowling Green outhit Buffalo 10-5 in game one and Melissa Bott kept the Bulls bats off-balanced, pitching six strong innings and giving up just two earned runs to get the win. Zada Lines came on to pitch the seventh after Bott gave up a leadoff double and retired the next three batters in order to get her second save.
Coffey, Sontag and Rachel Proehl had three hits each and Coffey was just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. Her homer in the fifth came with nobody out after Hannah Fulk walked to lead off the frame and Proehl reached on a bunt single.
In game two, Bowling Green was held to just five hits but Coffey was almost the hero again. The Falcons trailed 3-2 with two outs in the top of the seventh, when Coffey hit an RBI double to drive home Fulk, who had walked earlier in the inning, to send the game to extra innings.
Bowling Green, though, was unable to produce any more runs and Buffalo finally ended it with a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.
Lines pitched the entire 8 2/3 innings in the second game, scattering nine hits and two walks, striking out 10. She was also the only Bowling Green player with multiple hits, going 2-for-2 with an RBI on a bases loaded walk in the first.
The Falcons jumped out to a 2-0 lead after just half an inning but Buffalo scored twice in the third to tie the game and added a run in the fifth to take the lead until Coffey's RBI double in the seventh.
Buffalo is now 19-32 overall and 7-13 in MAC play. Bowling Green moves to 12-26 overall and 8-12 in the MAC. With five teams competing for the final two spots in the MAC Tournament, the Falcons are in the driver's seat with just two games remaining. However, Bowling Green must face MAC East leader Kent State Saturday and Sunday. The first game begins at 2 p.m. and the second starts at 1 p.m.
The Race To Make The MAC Tournament
The top eight teams in the MAC will compete in the MAC Tournament May 12-15 at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio. Five teams are in the race for the final two spots, which will be determined based on results Saturday and Sunday.
7. Bowling Green 8-12
8. W. Michigan 7-12 (game with EMU delayed at 7-7 in 8th inning due to rain at time of release)
T9. Buffalo 7-13
T9. Akron 7-13
11. E. Michigan 6-13 (game with WMU delayed at 7-7 in 8th inning due to rain at time of release)
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