The UAlbany softball team hosted UMass Lowell for a weekend series at Albany Field in Albany, N.Y. on April 23-24, 2022. These photos depict game one of a doubleheader on April 23.
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Winner UMBC UMBC 17-12, 9-2 AEC
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UAlbany UALB 14-15, 5-5 AEC
Winner
UMBC UMBC
17-12, 9-2 AEC
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Final
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UAlbany UALB
14-15, 5-5 AEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
UMBC UMBC 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 8 2
UAlbany UALB 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 0

W: Coppersmith (3-2) L: Powers, Kate (5-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Falls in Rubber Match

LOCATION: UAlbany Field - Albany, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 14-15, 5-5 America East | UMBC 17-12, 9-2 America East
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Danes tied the score late in the contest but were unable to come back from an eighth-inning score by UMBC, Sunday.
 
SCORE: UMBC 3, UAlbany 2 (8 innings)
 
KEY STATS
  • Senior Morgan Petty led with two hits from three at-bats. With two triples, both hits served as the lone multi-base hits for the Great Danes.
  • Senior Maddi Petrella and junior Jordan Nastos notched one RBI each.
  • Graduate student Chloe Lewis tied Petty with two hits.
  • Senior Wendi Hammond pitched the first four innings with redshirt-sophomore Kate Powers closing out the contest.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • The Retrievers opened the game by putting three on base but the Great Danes held all three runners to head to the dugout for the first time.
  • Morgan Petty sent the first UAlbany hit deep into right field for a standing triple.
  • After a scoreless second inning and three-straight outs in the top of the third, Petty added a second triple to right field, with two outs on the board, before scoring the first run of the contest.
  • UMBC answered with two runs in the top of the fourth.
  • With two outs on the board, the Great Danes loaded the bases in the bottom of the fifth but they were unable to take advantage of the baserunners.
  • Before sophomore Caitlyn Frederick pinch ran for her, Chloe Lewis opened the bottom of the sixth with a single to left field.
  • After a stolen base from Frederick and a base on balls for sophomore Sierra Fretz, the Great Danes had baserunners on first and second.
  • Jordan Nastos tallied what proved to be the final hit of the inning to drive in the game-tying run, 2-2, with one inning left.
  • As neither team was able to score in the seventh, the game headed to extra innings.
  • The Retrievers took the lead with a one-run home run in the eighth.
  • UAlbany was unable to get a runner on base and tie the score as UMBC took the extra-inning win, 3-2.
 
NEXT: The Great Danes will head to Hartford for a midweek doubleheader on Thursday (April 20).
 
For more information on the University at Albany softball team, follow the squad's official social media accounts shown below.
Twitter - @ualbanysb
Instagram - @ualbanysb
 
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