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Vivi Vargas looks to throw out a runner from shortstop in a road game at Niagara on April 18, 2025.
Lindy Feider
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Canisius CAN 21-19
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Winner Univ. at Buffalo BUF 13-28
Canisius CAN
21-19
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Final
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Univ. at Buffalo BUF
13-28
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Canisius CAN 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 6 0
Univ. at Buffalo BUF 0 0 3 0 1 0 X 4 4 0

W: Longsdorf, Genevieve (3-10) L: Herrington, Liv (1-6) S: Russ, Olivia (2)

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Canisius CAN 21-20
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Winner Univ. at Buffalo BUF 14-28
Canisius CAN
21-20
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Final
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Univ. at Buffalo BUF
14-28
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Canisius CAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
Univ. at Buffalo BUF 2 0 1 1 0 0 X 4 6 0

W: Russ, Olivia (6-11) L: Obenrader, Mikaila (2-4)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Drops Non-League Doubleheader at Buffalo

The host University at Buffalo earned a pair of wins over Canisius in non-conference softball action Wednesday afternoon, as the Bulls posted a 4-3 win in game one before taking the nightcap of the twinbill at Nan Harvey Field by the score of 4-0.
 
Buffalo improved to 14-28 with the two victories, while the Golden Griffins slipped to 21-20 on the year, as their losing skid moved to three-straight games.
 
GAME ONE RECAP
An RBI-single to left by Reagan Terwilliger with two outs in the bottom of the fifth proved to be the difference, as the Bulls scored a 4-3 victory over Canisius in the first game of the day. With the game tied 3-3 to start the inning, Buffalo's Adryn Hopf led off the fifth by drawing a walk, and then she moved around to third base thanks to a sacrifice bunt and a ground-out. She scored on Terwillinger's base knock to left – one of Buffalo's four hits in the game one victory.
 
Canisius tied the game at 3-3 in the top-half of the fifth thanks to a two-run homer off the bat of senior Rosie Gomez. With two outs and a runner at first, Gomez took a pitch from Buffalo starter Genevieve Longsdorf over the fence in right-center for her team-leading eighth home run of the season.
 
The Griffs took an early 1-0 lead in the top-half of the first inning thanks to an RBI-triple off the bat of sophomore Ella Johel. After leadoff batter Tabitha von Kolen earned a walk to start the game, she came around to score on Johel's three-base hit that bounced off the fence in right-center. That triple was Johel's seventh on the season, which leads the team and is tops in the MAAC. Buffalo was hitless through the first two innings of the game until Ava Thelen singled up the middle to put two runners on with no one out in the home-half of the third. Later in that inning, Abbey Nagel took a pitch from Canisius starter Liv Herrington over the fence in right field to give the Bulls the 3-1 lead.
 
Canisius senior Alyssa Cloutier had two hits and stole a base in the game one loss, while Johel (triple), Gomez (home run) and von Kolen (double) all recorded extra-base hits for the Blue and Gold. Longsdorf scored her third win of the season in the circle after she allowed three runs on fur hits to go with three strikeouts and four walks. Olivia Russ earned her second save of the season after she threw two scoreless innings and allowed just two hits. Herrington fell to 1-6 on the year after she went the distance and allowed four runs on four hits to go with four walks and a strikeout.
 
GAME TWO RECAP
Buffalo jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and never looked back in game two en route to the 4-0 victory. UB's first run came on an RBI-single by Lily Lauck, and moments later, Lauck scored on a Canisius defensive error, one of two Griff miscues in game two.
 
The Bulls made the score 3-0 in the home-half of the third on a sac-fly from Thelen, and Nagel capped the second contest's scoring with a solo homer in the fourth to make the score 4-0 in favor of the home team.
 
Those four runs were more than enough support for Bulls' starter Olivia Russ, who earned her sixth win of the season in the circle after she allowed just two hits and fanned three in 5.0 innings of work. Reliever Marissa Calloway came on in the sixth and gave up four hits as well, while fanning four Canisius batters. The Griffs did not record an extra-base hit in the second game, and had just three runners reach second base in the losing effort.
 
Freshman Vivi Vargas had three of Canisius' four hits in the game, while senior Morgan Cook added a base knock as well. The shutout loss was the Griffs' third of the season, and the team's first since April 1 at Marist.
 
GAME NOTES
• Canisius leads the all-time series with UB by a 34-26 count. Wednesday's doubleheader sweep by UB marks the Bulls' first sweep of Canisius since the 2003 season.
• Wednesday's games at UB's Nan Harvey Field were the first for the Griffs since 2016.
• Gomez's eight homers this season tie her previous career high for long balls in a year. She also had eight home runs in 2023.
• Vargas matched a season-high with the three hits in game two. She last had three hits in a game back on March 15, at UMBC.
• Junior Bailey Alatorre had a base hit in game one and drew a walk in game two to extend her streak of reaching base safely to a career-best eight games.
 
UP NEXT
Canisius will return to MAAC play this weekend with a three-game road series at Siena. The first two games of the series will be played Saturday in Loudonville, N.Y., with game one of the league doubleheader set to start at noon.
 
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