Colgate Caps Regular Season with Walk-off Win

Crunch downed by Rocket

Colgate Caps Regular Season with Walk-off Win

Cross off another milestone for Jillian Herbst’s decorated firstyear season.

Herbst drove a walk-off single up the middle in the bottom of the ninth to lift Colgate past Army 2-1 in the regular season finale Sunday afternoon at Eaton Street Field.

Claire Whalen raced home as the winning run, slid under the tag and followed it up with an emphatic fist pump as she rose to her feet with the team celebrating at home plate.

Colgate salvages the third game of the series and now turns its attention to the Patriot League Tournament, where the Raiders

take on top-seeded Boston University on Thursday.

For the second time in the series Bailey Misken and Jolie Duong went toeto-toe in the circle. Misken threw all nine innings for the Raiders and 129 pitches later earned her 10th win of the season. She allowed one run on six hits with seven strikeouts in the victory.

Each team manufactured a run in the third inning. Angelina Bebek sparked the top of the third with a single and scored on an RBI single up the middle by Leila Hurst to get the visitors on the board first. Misken stranded two runners on base to escape the inning with the one run across.

Rebecca Johnson turned to her speed to get the Raiders on the board in the home half of the inning. The senior led off with a single to left field, stole second, advanced to third on an error, and came around to score on an RBI single by Morgan Farrah to tie the game at 1-1.

Defense played a key role down the stretch. Johnson threw a runner out at home from left field in the fourth and then Quinn Livesay ended the top of the ninth by throwing out a runner trying to steal third base.

The big play from Colgate’s first-year catcher carried over the last half of the inning, when Herbst’s late heroics gave the Raiders the 2-1 victory.

Colgate (19-26, 9-9 Patriot) will take on topseeded Boston University in the first round of the Patriot League tournament on Thursday. First pitch is set for noon from BU Softball Field, with ESPN+ carrying the livestream.

Crunch downed by Rocket

The Syracuse Crunch were downed by the Laval Rocket, 3-2, in Game 2 tonight at the Upstate Medical University Arena.

The best-of-five series is now tied, 1-1.

Goaltender Max Lagace stopped 25-of-28 shots in net for the Crunch. Cayden Primeau turned aside 37of-39 between the pipes for the Rocket. Syracuse was unable to convert on five power play opportunities, while Laval went 1-for-4.

The Crunch opened scoring 5:37 into the game when Simon Ryfors got a stick on Ryan Jones’s slapshot from the point and redirected the puck past Primeau. With 2:27 remaining in the first period, the Rocket evened the score on the power play. Jesse Ylonen took a shot from the top of the left circle while the netminder was screened.

The Rocket took the lead 6:27 into the middle frame. Alex Belzile was down low to grab the puck and shovel a backhander into the net.

Syracuse rallied and tied the game at the 12:40 mark of the third period. Gabe Fortier skated into the zone and sent a shot on net. Primeau made the save, but Daniel Walcott followed behind the play and swept in the rebound.

Laval then netted the game-winner at 18:13. Brandon Gignac backhanded a close-range shot that was stopped, but he grabbed his own rebound and sent it in.

The teams travel to Laval for Game 3 on Thursday.