April 12, 2005

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.- The Harvard softball team dropped a non-conference doubleheader against Boston College Tuesday afternoon at Shea Field. The Eagles won the first game, 5-1, before taking the second, 12-2 in five innings. Harvard drops to 10-12 with the loss. Boston College improves to 15-15 with the pair of wins.

Kerry Flaherty (Jr., Concord, Mass.) provided the only Crimson run in game one with a solo home run, the first home run of her career, in the top of the third inning to tie the game at 1-1.

Boston College broke a 1-1 tie with a pair of runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. A two-out rally highlighted by an RBI single from Kristin Allain pushed two runs across in the fifth while a home run by Angela Pandolfo and an RBI single by Jenna Macchi accounted for the two runs in the sixth.

Michele McAteer (Jr., Holliston, Mass.) got the start, pitching the first three innings. She gave up three hits and one earned run in the no decision. Ivy League Rookie and Co-Pitcher of the Week Shelly Madick (Fr., Tarzana, Calif.) took the loss to drop to 5-3. She gave up four runs, two of them earned, on four hits over the final three innings. Michelle Daly posted the win in the circle for the Eagles, pitching the complete game en route to improving to 8-6 on the season.

The Eagle bats were hot in game two - despite snow flurries for most of the game - scoring 12 runs on seven hits, including four home runs.

Harvard took a 1-0 lead after Cecily Gordon (Sr., Los Altos, Calif.) homered to left center.

BC got that run back and added two more insurance runs as Kimmy Hopkin hit the first of her two homers. The Eagles exploded for nine runs on five hits (including three homeruns, one of which was a grand slam by Macchi) in the third inning.

Becky Voaklander (So., Cardiff, Calif.) took the loss. She gave up eight earned runs on five hits in the first 2.1 innings. Amanda Watkins threw the final two outs of the third inning, giving up three earned runs on two hits. McAteer threw the bottom of the fourth, striking out two.

Elena Ferrero posted the win on the mound for the Eagles, improving to 1-3.