The University of Connecticut softball team came back from a five-run deficit to defeat Georgetown, 14-6, in the series opener on May 1 at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex. The Huskies improved their record to 16-6 in Big East play and moved above .500 overall at 26-25.
The game saw UConn trailing early, as Georgetown built a 3-0 lead by the second inning and extended it to 6-1 by the fourth. Freshman Caprice Bohmer started for UConn, pitching four innings and allowing two earned runs on six hits with one strikeout.
UConn’s offense responded in the fifth inning with seven runs, sending eleven batters to the plate and taking an 8-6 lead. Kaitlyn Kibling began the rally with a double that drove in two runs. Haley Coupal added another double for two more runs before Emma Willers gave UConn its first lead of the game with a single. Caylee De Meo capped off the inning with her second double, pushing across another run.
Jessica Walter entered in relief during the fifth inning for her team-leading thirty-fifth appearance this season. Walter retired six of eight batters faced over more than two innings, giving up just one hit. In later innings, Kaitlyn Breslin added two RBIs while Coupal broke open the game with a grand slam—her first home run this season—in the seventh inning.
The Huskies’ comeback was their largest of this season. All nine starters reached base during the game. Coupal set a career high with six RBIs and notched her tenth multi-hit game of the year while extending her on-base streak to ten games. Kibling has now reached base safely in nineteen straight games and recorded her sixth multi-RBI effort this year; Breslin leads UConn with fifteen such games this season.
Game two between UConn and Georgetown is scheduled for Saturday, May 2 at 1:00 p.m.
