LOCATION: Bearcats Sports Complex - Vestal, N.Y.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 6-14, 0-2 America East | Binghamton 16-9, 2-0 America East
 
SHORT STORY: The Great Danes started strong in the first game, including a home run from junior Deanna Grahek, but the Bearcats were able to win both doubleheader games in five innings, Saturday.
 
GAME ONE
 
SCORE: Binghamton 12, UAlbany 4 (five inn.)
 
KEY STATS

• Deanna Grahek led the team with two RBI from a home run.
• Sophomore Mary Kate Murray and freshman Vanessa Meyers both went 2-3 at the plate. Meyers also tallied an RBI and a run scored.
• Sophomore Taylor Quinn added a hit and an RBI.
• Redshirt-senior Kate Powers pitched 3.0 innings with four strikeouts. Freshman Hailey Errichiello finished the game with one strikeout in 1.0 innings.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Binghamton started hot with two runs in the first inning.
• Vanessa Meyers opened the second inning with a single.
• Deanna Grahek followed with a home run directly over the center field fence to make it a tied game at two.
• Senior Caitlyn Frederick scored as Meyers hit a single to add an RBI and the Great Danes went up, 3-2, in the top of the third.
• The Bearcats came back to take a 4-2 lead before the end of the third.
• With two runners on base in the fourth, Taylor Quinn hit a single into the outfield to bring redshirt-senior Victoria Vilarchao home to tie the score.
• Binghamton answered and took a 12-4 lead at the end of the fourth inning.
• Mary Kate Murray hit a single for the Great Danes in the fifth but was unable to score and the Bearcats earned the win in five.

 
GAME TWO
 
SCORE: Binghamton 14, UAlbany 2 (five inn.)
 
KEY STATS

• Deanna Grahek hit the only UAlbany extra-base hit with an RBI triple.
• Five different Great Danes added a single each - Mary Kate Murray, Vanessa Meyers, senior Christie Collins, and freshmen Kaitlyn Parisi and Sara Scozzari.
• Collins also earned an RBI for UAlbany.
• Freshmen pitchers Hayley Wieczerzak and Hailey Errichiello shared time in the circle with 2.0 innings each. Wieczerzak totaled three strikeouts while Errichiello added one.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Bearcats were first on the board with a home run in the bottom of the first. They added four runs in the bottom of the second inning.
• Deanna Grahek took advantage of a runner on base and hit an RBI triple in the third inning but Binghamton answered with five runs.
• Kaitlyn Parisi opened the fourth inning with a single to right field to get on base. Christie Collins drove in Parisi, from second base, with an infield groundout.
• Binghamton extended their lead to 12 with four additional runs from homers in the bottom of the fourth. 
• Mary Kate Murray reached on an error and Vanessa Meyers singled but it wasn't enough and the Great Danes fell, 14-2, to the Bearcats.

 
NEXT: UAlbany will head to Columbia for a single midweek game before hosting Bryant for their first home games of the season.
 
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