{"id":31750,"date":"2022-05-13T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=31750"},"modified":"2022-05-13T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:10:29","slug":"softball-1-0-win-against-lehigh-advances-bu-in-tournament-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/05\/13\/softball-1-0-win-against-lehigh-advances-bu-in-tournament-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball: 1-0 win against Lehigh advances BU in tournament semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Audrey Sellers runs home to score Boston University’s only run of the game against Lehigh University in the Patriot League semifinals on Friday. The Terriers’ 1-0 win advances them to the tournament finals on Saturday. ROBERT BRANNING VIA BU ATHLETICS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Michael Wax\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Boston University softball (40-15, 17-2 PL) will head to its sixth consecutive Patriot League championship game following a 1-0 win over Lehigh (27-17-1, 15-4 PL) on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a performance,\u201d said BU head coach Ashley Waters. \u201cI thought Ally was great today, really great command. I thought she did a good job kind of bearing down and still throwing her pitches and not trying to go over the plate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Junior pitcher Allison Boaz put up seven innings for the second straight day, only allowing one hit and walking two while also striking out two.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m feeling good,\u201d Boaz said. \u201cWe’ve been playing a lot of games this season and so I’ve always kind of stayed warm but Lehigh\u2019s a good hitting team and I think just staying confident and staying aggressive and getting ahead early in the counts has been really working today and yesterday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boaz also put together an impressive fielding performance, recording five putouts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDefense is everything,\u201d Boaz said, \u201cbecause you know they’re gonna put the ball in play, and so you gotta have that behind you.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BU scratched across the only run of the game in the third. Junior catcher Audrey <\/span>Sellers led the inning off with a single, then advanced to third on consecutive groundouts. Patriot League Player of the Year Kayla Roncin then singled to put BU on top.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate center fielder Jen Horita led the BU bats on the day with three infield singles. Aggressive baserunning from Horita got her into multiple close plays at third. While she was able to get around the tag on the first instance, the miscue ultimately led to BU not being after to cash in any runs in the fifth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think her initial read was right, and then the second read she shouldn’t have gone,\u201d Waters said. \u201cI mean you’re seeing the ball in front of you. I do actually think she was safe. I think that ball beat her but the tag didn\u2019t. But regardless, the umpire’s angle obviously had her out. I mean, the ball\u2019s in front of you, we can go first and second and have two runners on and obviously you saw after that there was a missed fly ball. We could have had a couple more runs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Going into the championship series, Waters wants BU hitters to think about one thing: \u201cOffense, offense, offense,\u201d Waters said. \u201cThere’s got to be confidence in the box.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Boaz doesn\u2019t know if she’ll take the mound for tomorrow\u2019s championship matchup, but she knows that it\u2019s going to be a team effort to bring home a fourth consecutive Patriot League trophy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur team\u2019s worked so hard, and everyone contributes, and we’re gonna need everyone tomorrow,\u201d Boaz said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Terriers will face the winner of game 5 tomorrow at 12 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Michael Wax\u00a0\u00a0 Boston University softball (40-15, 17-2 PL) will head to its sixth consecutive Patriot League championship game following a 1-0 win over Lehigh (27-17-1, 15-4 PL) on Friday. \u201cWhat a performance,\u201d said BU head coach Ashley Waters. \u201cI thought Ally was great today, really great command. I thought she did a good job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18874,"featured_media":31752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1052,19,1039],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31754,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions\/31754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}