Cochis Hitting and Pitching Leads Softball to Split With Goldey-Beacom in 2015 Finale
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Box Score 2 DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (Apr. 26, 2015) – Led by a complete game outing and two-RBI performance in game two from sophomore Anna Cochis (Clifton Park, N.Y./Catholic Central), the Mercy College softball team concluded its 2015 season with a doubleheader split against Goldey-Beacom College on Sunday at Smith Field, dropping the opener 3-2 before capping off the year with a 5-2 victory in the nightcap.
The Mavericks (13-36) conclude the season with splits in each of their last three doubleheaders, while the Lightning (6-29-1) finish off their 2015 campaign.
Game 1: Goldey-Beacom 3, Mercy 2
A tight contest broke out in the opener as the two teams would combine for only nine hits. After a pair of scoreless innings to start, the visitors from Delaware got on the board in the top of the third as they received an RBI groundout from Charlee King to score Kelsey Brandle who doubled earlier in the inning to take a 1-0 lead.
The Lightning added another run off Maverick starter Holly Pundick (Whiterock, B.C./Jefferson College) in the fourth as Asia Ellis collected an RBI with a single to third base to make it 2-0.
Mercy responded with the equalizer in the bottom half of the inning as junior Adriana Bencomo (Fresno, Calif./Fresno City College) doubled to right center allowing senior Michelle Duford (Maple Ridge, B.C./Seward County CC) to score and make it 2-1. The Mavericks found the tying later in the inning on a Lightning error to even things up at 2-2 after four innings of play.
Goldey-Beacom came right back with a run of their own in the fifth which proved to be the game winner on an error by the second baseman that allowed King to score all the way from first to give the guests a 3-2 lead.
The Mavericks could only muster one more hit the rest of the way and would drop the opener despite Pundick going the distance with two earned runs allowed on five hits with six strikeouts.
Duford went 2-for-2 with a run scored in the opener, while both senior Jackie Couillard (Wolcott, Conn./Wolcott) and Bencomo went 1-for-3.
Game 2: Mercy 5, Goldey-Beacom 2
The nightcap saw the visitors get on the board first again as they put up two unearned runs off Cochis in the top of the third to take a 2-0 lead.
Mercy came back with an answer in their half of the third as sophomore Liza Ueno (Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin) singled up the middle to score Couillard, who had doubled in the previous at bat, to make it 2-1 after three.
Cochis pitched out a jam in the fourth and followed that up by helping her cause at the plate with a two-RBI double to center field to score freshman Morgan Lloyd (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme) and Duford and give the Mavericks a 3-2 advantage. Cochis later came around to score in the inning on a passed ball to build Mercy's lead to 4-2 after four.
After Cochis tossed a scoreless fifth, Bencomo came through once again for Mercy in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI groundout to score Ueno and push the Maverick lead up to 5-2.
The Lightning threatened in the sixth as Ellis tripled with one out in the inning, but Cochis ended the threat with a strikeout and lineout to keep Mercy up 5-2.
Goldey-Beacom would get the tying run to the plate in the top of the seventh with two outs, but Cochis came up big with a strikeout to end the game and earn her seventh win of the season.
Lloyd ended the nightcap a perfect 3-for-3 with a run scored, while Ueno batted 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI. Freshman Chelsea Konyar (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) went 1-for-3 and Couillard went 1-for-3 with a run scored. Cochis ended the contest with no earned runs allowed and three strikeouts.
Couillard ends her outstanding four-year career as a Maverick with 203 hits, three shy of becoming the school's all-time career leader and concludes her career with 113 RBI, just three shy of breaking the school record.
