By: David Souza<\/p>\n
What started out as a pitcher\u2019s duel turned to an explosion of offense as the Boston University Terriers (9-11) rolled to their fifth\u00a0straight win in a 10-2 drubbing of the Providence College Friars (10-11). The Terriers, in their first home game of the season, came into the game on a hot streak as they had upended Southern Utah twice, along with Yale, and UC Riverside in the Mizuno Invitational. Providence, in contrast, was still reeling from going 1-2 in the Fordham Tournament, where it was\u00a0thoroughly decimated by a Rams team that beat them twice by scores of 5-0 and 8-3 respectively.<\/p>\n
The scoring opened up in the top of the third inning when a single just past the shortstop plated Vanessa Portillo for the first run of the game. The lead was short lived for the Friars, however, as in the bottom half of the inning, BU\u2019s 1st<\/sup> baseman Alex Heinen, roped a three-run double down the left field line to give the home team a two run lead going into the top of the fourth.<\/p>\n While Providence was able to get a run back in the top half of the next frame thanks in part to a sacrifice fly, the Terriers jumped all over PC starter Christina Ramirez in the bottom of the fourth. The monster inning began with both Lauren Hynes and Jilee Schanada getting hit on back-to-back pitches. Brittany Younan followed that up with an single to centerfield to load the bases when Emma Wong\u2019s infield hit, which grazed off the tip of PC third baseman Kelsi Luttrell\u2019s glove, drove in two runs.<\/p>\n Some mental errors on the part of the Friars\u2019 infielders scored two more BU runs, as a botched fielders choice and well timed bunt by Emily Morrow made the score 7-2. With two on and only one out, Heinen once again stepped to the plate. She added to her three RBI\u2019s on the day with a three-run home run that cleared the right field fence onto Malvern Street.<\/p>\n Heinen\u2019s blast proved to be the nail in the coffin as Melanie Russell, who was originally slated to get the start before head coach Ashley Waters gave the nod to Hynes, came in for the three-out save. Due to college softball mercy rules, the game ended after 4\u00bd innings as the Terriers cruised to their 5th<\/sup> straight victory.<\/p>\n BU will be back in action this weekend as they head down to the Maryland Invitational where they will take on Binghamton, Maryland, Ball State, and in-state rival Massachusetts before returning home for a two game series with the Pioneers of Sacred Heart. The first pitch is slated for 1:30 P.M. as they take on the Bearcats in the first of back-to-back doubleheaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: David Souza What started out as a pitcher\u2019s duel turned to an explosion of offense as the Boston University Terriers (9-11) rolled to their fifth\u00a0straight win in a 10-2 drubbing of the Providence College Friars (10-11). The Terriers, in their first home game of the season, came into the game on a hot streak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17196,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1039],"tags":[1465],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096"}],"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\/17196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}