Softball | 4/10/2018 6:33:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Updated Stats

Rochester, NY – The Nazareth softball squad snuck in two games against the University of Rochester on Wednesday afternoon, falling 6-2 in the opening contest before losing 8-0 in five innings.

Nazareth falls to 6-8 on the season with the losses, while Rochester moves to 5-10.

Game 1 - Rochester 6, Nazareth 2

Despite outhitting the Yellowjackets 11-7 in the first game, four errors and an inability to moves runners home doomed the Golden Flyers. 

Nazareth evened the score at 1-1 after the second.  Kristen Simmons opened the inning with a single.  She later scored from first on an RBI single from Gabriella Corasaniti.

Madison Joseph, who finished 2-for-4 in the game, gave the Golden Flyers a brief lead in the top of the third, as her doubled scored Katherine Ruoff.

In the bottom half, Rochester capitalized off two errors and three hits to re-gain a 3-2 advantage.

Two runs in the fifth and a solo homer in the sixth closed out the scoring for the Yellowjackets, 6-2.

The Golden Flyers left two runners on in both the sixth and seventh innings.

Ruoff was 2-for-4, while Corasaniti was 2-for-3.  Corasanititi suffered the loss on the mound, allowing six runs (four earned) on seven hits with two strikeouts. 

Game 2 – Rochester 8, Nazareth 0

The Yellowjackets erupted for six runs in the second and scored one run in both the first and third innings to close the game out in five.

Rochester's six-run second, included Harleigh Kaczegowicz stealing home to make it 4-0.  Following a single from Gianna Milollo to make it 5-0, Kylie Smith came on in relief Baileasue Rounds.  Rounds last 1.2 innings, allowing six runs on three hits.

Smith allowed a two-run shot in the inning, eventually getting out of the jam.

Nazareth had just four hits in the loss, one coming from Simmons in the fourth.  As it struggled with all day, Nazareth left two on to end the frame.

Simmons went 2-for-2, while Janelle Walters was 2-for-3. 

Nazareth returns to action on Saturday, hosting Utica College in a doubleheader (1/3 p.m.) for its first home game of the season.