From University of Rochester Athletics

Alyssa Murillo and Mackenzie Cronin drove in four runs apiece on Tuesday morning as Rochester opened the University Athletic Association championships with a 9-3 victory over Brandeis University.
 
Murillo highlighted a five-run first inning with a grand slam home run. Cronin was 3-4 with three runs scored and four RBIs. Kayla Kibling was 3-4 – all doubles – and scored two runs.
 
Gabi Alatorre picked up her second win of the season. She scattered five hits, allowed two runs (neither was earned), walked four, and struck out one in six innings. Eleni Wechsler started. She pitched the top of the first (one hit, one walk, one unearned run). When the Yellowjackets broke ahead 5-1 after the bottom of the first, Alatorre took over in the circle.
 
For Brandeis, Madison Sullivan and Madison Hunter each had two hits. Leah Shapiro scored two runs. Samantha Wroblewski went the distance, allowing 11 hits, nine runs (all earned) with two walks and six strikeouts in six innings. Brandeis was 3-1 after the game. Rochester was 3-1 as well.
 
The Judges took a 1-0 lead in their half of the first. Shapiro walked and was bunted to second. Madison Sullivan singled her to third. Sullivan stole second and when the ball was dropped, Shapiro scored an unearned run.
 
Rochester answered immediately, Kibling doubled and was bunted to third. After Brittany Grage sruck out, Cronin hit an infield single scoring Kibling. Alatorre and Lauren Muni were hit by pitches, loading the bases. Murillo's first career grand slam cleared the bases.
 
Brandeis scored two unearned runs in the fifth after two were down. That got the Judges within 5-3 but Rochester scored two apiece in the fifth and sixth. Grage singled, leading off the fifth and Cronin followed with a home run. In the sixth, Kibling doubled, was bunted to third, and scored on Cronin's single. Alatorre's RBI double made it 9-3.