Gold’s Two-Run Home Run Pushes Duke Past Boston College, 6-4

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Friday, April 14

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

4 p.m.

Duke University

34-8, 0

Boston College

19-20, 0

Duke

Boston College

Gold’s Two-Run Home Run Pushes Duke Past Boston College, 6-4

4/14/2023 10:34:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

BRIGHTON, Mass. – Sophomore Ana Gold crushed a two-run home run over the left field wall in the top of the seventh inning to lead the 11th-ranked Duke softball team to a 6-4 victory over Boston College at Harrington Athletics Village on Friday.

The Blue Devils (34-8, 11-5 ACC) now own a six-game winning streak, while handing the Eagles (19-20, 2-11 ACC) their 11th conference loss of the season.

Freshman pitcher Sophie Garner-MacKinnon earned her fifth win inside the circle, after allowing one run on three hits in her 3.1 innings of work.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Senior Gisele Tapia opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly to left field to bring in freshman D'Auna Jennings from third. Jennings reached by a walk, before moving up on a stolen base and Eagles error.
Duke tacked on two additional runs in the third inning to stretch a 3-0 lead.
The Eagles responded in the bottom of the fourth with a three-run home run off the bat of Zoe Hines to even the score, 3-3.
Boston College added in another run in the fifth on a pair of singles and a hit by pitch to pull ahead, 4-3.
Junior Francesca Frelick led off the sixth inning with a single to left field, before advancing on another Eagles' error.
Redshirt-freshman Jada Baker laid down a bunt in the ensuing at bat to score sophomore Kelsey Zampa, pinch running for Frelick, to tie the game at 4-4.
Gold plated Duke's two go-ahead runs via the long ball in the final frame. Her hit also scored Tapia, who reached on an error from the Eagles' shortstop.

NOTES

Gold has homered in five of the last eight games and tallied her 14th multi-RBI game of the year.
Junior Jala Wright and Garner-MacKinnon combined for seven strikeouts and allowed just four runs on seven hits.
With the win, the program sits just one shy of 200 program wins.

UP NEXT
Duke and Boston College continue the three-game series on Saturday afternoon. The first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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