Softball swept by BC to close season

After a strong finish to its Ivy League season, the softball team was swept by Boston College Sunday in its final two games of the season. The Tigers dropped the first game 2-1 and the second 6-0.

The Tigers only managed three hits off the Eagles' Kimberly Ryan in the first game. The second wasn't any better for the Tigers — Brooke Shull shut Princeton's down completely, allowing only two hits in the second game.

Junior Brie Galicinao, who last week lowered her ERA to 0.64 from 0.79 by pitching 22 scoreless innings and had not given up an earned run in her previous six starts, allowed one earned run in the first game Sunday. Despite allowing only four hits and striking out nine, she took the loss in her final game this season, finishing with a record of 10-9 on the year.

The Eagles' only earned run gave them an early 1-0 lead in the third inning. Galicinao brought the Tigers back with a solo home run over the left-centerfield wall and then kept Boston College without a run until the seventh inning.

In the bottom of final inning, the Eagles' Cara Blumfield scored when BC first baseman Alison Erbig's bunt was bobbled by senior catcher Devon Keefe.

Boston College jumped out early in the second game with two runs off of freshman Wendy Bingham in the first inning. The Eagles' Blumfield added to the hurt in the fifth inning with a three-run blast off Bingham, who allowed eight hits and struck out seven.

She was relieved in the sixth inning by Kelly Gaydos, who allowed one hit and one earned run.