Lehigh University Athletics
Lehigh University
32-19
Bucknell
19-27
Mountain Hawks Win Rematch With Bucknell To Move Into Championship Round Of PLT
5/10/2024 5:35:00 PM | Softball
Graduate student Emily Cimino reached base three times and was one of three Mountain Hawks to record two hits on the day. Senior Amanda Greaney crushed a two-run home run to spark a four-run fourth inning as the Mountain Hawks pulled away with 10 runs over their final three turns at bat.
Lehigh improves to 32-19 overall and will face Boston University in Saturday's championship round. The Mountain Hawks need to beat the Terriers twice to capture their 16th Patriot League Tournament crown, while BU needs just one win Saturday to take the title.
For the second straight game, Lehigh plated a run in the top of the first as the designated visiting team to take an early lead. Consecutive doubles from Cimino and senior Brooke Cannon staked Lehigh to a 1-0 lead.
Two-out doubles from Cimino and Cannon give us the early lead!
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Bucknell (19-27) tied the game in the bottom of the first on Savannah Jones' RBI single. Lehigh got out of the inning without any further damage when Zoie Smith was ruled to have left third base early after scoring on Brooke Popella's fly ball to right.
The Mountain Hawks took the lead for good in the third when Cimino played classmate Josie Charles with a sacrifice fly to right. The RBI was the 165th of Cimino's career, tying her with Liz Lucas '13 and Kim Miller '96 for the Lehigh and Patriot League career record.
Greaney opened the doors for a four-run fourth with a long two-run home run to center, her first of the season. Charles delivered an RBI triple and then scored on a single by first-year Gracie Smith to give Lehigh a 6-1 lead after three and a half innings.
What a wallop from Amanda Greaney! 💣
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Lehigh added two more in the fifth as first-year Peyton Sward picked up an RBI with an infield single, and then pinch-runner Crysta Duenas scored when Charles reached on an error.
Junior Rory Dudley started a four-run sixth inning with a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Cimino. Two more runs came home on a wild pitch and a passed ball and then junior Lindsey Martin capped the scoring for Lehigh with a single to right.
Lindsey Martin gets into the RBI column as Lehigh has scored four in the sixth!
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Cannon and Sward joined Cimino with two hits as Lehigh finished with 11 off of four Bucknell pitchers.
Sophomore Chloe Hess earned the win in the circle, allowing one run on three hits over 5.2 innings of relief. Hess struck out four and walked one. Junior Maria Urban started in the circle and was charged with a run on three hits after facing four batters.
Lehigh has now reached the championship round in six of the last seven Patriot League Tournaments.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Hess, Chloe (6-6)
L: Savannah Jones (3-8)
Batting:
2B: Cimino, Emily 1 ; Cannon, Brooke 2 ; Dudley, Rory 1
3B: Charles, Josie 1
HR: Greaney, Amanda 1
RBI: Charles, Josie 1 ; Martin, Lindsey 1 ; Smith, Gracie 1 ; Cimino, Emily 1 ; Cannon, Brooke 1 ; Dudley, Rory 1 ; Greaney, Amanda 2 ; Sward, Peyton 1
SF: Cimino, Emily 1 ; Dudley, Rory 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Charles, Josie 2 ; Cimino, Emily 2 ; Cannon, Brooke 1 ; Dudley, Rory 1 ; Lovett, Holly 1 ; Mrochko, Julia 1 ; Greaney, Amanda 2 ; Duenas, Crysta 1 ; Sward, Peyton 1
SB: Cannon, Brooke 1 ; Duenas, Crysta 1 ; Sward, Peyton 1
Batting:
2B: MaKenzie Hilling 1
RBI: MaKenzie Hilling 1 ; Savannah Jones 1
Base Running:
RUNS: MaKenzie Hilling 1 ; Sarah Zimmerman 1
