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CLERMONT, Fla. – The Brandeis University softball team continued its outstanding pitching today as the Judges concluded their season-opening trip to THE Spring Games in Florida with wins over Buena Vista (Iowa), 7-1, and St. Joseph’s College (Maine), 8-1. Three Brandeis pitchers combined to allow just six hits over 14 innings of work.
TEAM RECORDS
Brandeis, 5-1.
Buena Vista, 1-5.
St. Joseph’s (Maine), 1-1.
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. BUENVA VISTA (Brandeis, 7-1)
First-year Madeline Jennings (New York, N.Y. / Beacon) picked up her first win of the season with her best start, tossing five innings of three-hit ball. She allowed one earned run and had one strikeout out without a walk.
Sophomore Jamie Staub (Lawrenceville, N.J. / Hun School) retired six of the seven batters she faced with four strikeouts to close things out.
The Beavers scored in the top of the first, as a lead-off hitter Arielle Bowers singled, advanced to second on a groundout and stole third. She scored on an error back to the circle, but the Judges turned one of their three double plays on the day to end the threat.
It was all Brandeis after that, with the Judges scoring twice in the bottom of the first to claim the lead. Sophomore 3B Jordan Wallace (Howell, N.J. / Choate Rosemary Hall, Conn.) knotted the game with an RBI single, and scored the winning run from first on a double by junior CF Bells Burdenski (San Diego, Calif. / Rancho Bernardo).
In the second, sophomore catcher Dylan Yamamura (Newbury Park, Calif. / Newbury Park) doubled and scored on a single by first-year 2B Mia Deck (Laguna Hills, Calif. / Santa Margarita Catholic)¸
Brandeis broke things open with a four-run fifth inning that included a two-run single by junior 1B Brooke Boehmer (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Mount Lebanon) and a home run by Wallace.
It was Wallace’s seventh career home run and the Judges’ first of the 2026 season.
In all, 10 different Judges combined for the team’s 13 hits, with Boehmer, Wallace and Deck posting two hits each.
Wallace had the big bat overall, finishing 2-3 with three RBI and two runs scored to go with her home run.
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. ST. JOSEPH’S (MAINE) (Brandeis, 8-1)
Senior Ragini Kannan (Westford, Mass./Westford) continued her torrid start in the circle, earning her third win of the week.
Kannan struck out a career-high 14 Monks, registering her sixth career game with 10 or more Ks.
Kannan retired the first nine batters she faced – seven on strikeouts – to extend her hitless streak to 14 innings before SJC finally got a hit and a baserunner in the top of the fourth.
After the Monks put together three hits for Kannan’s first earned run allowed this year, she got a strikeout to end the frame and did not allow another baserunner, adding another seven whiffs.
Kannan’s previous career high for strikeouts was 12, achieved three times during her rookie season.
Kannan’s win was the 30th of her career, making her the 11th Judge to reach that milestone. Her 38th complete game moved her into eighth place on Brandeis’s all-time list, while her strikeout total improved to 286, moving into sixth on the career list.
Offensively, the Judges got on the board two batters into the game, when senior Erin Hunt (Wake Forest, N.C. / Franklin Academy) singled and scored on a double by first-year Taryn Rainey (Huntley, Ill. / Huntley).
The game-winning runs scored in the third, when Rainey singled and scored on a Burdenski triple. Burdenski then came home on a Wallace single.
Brandeis tacked on five runs in the final three innings, highlighted by the first collegiate home run by first-year Cae Pellegrini (Milford, Mass. / Milford), a three-run shot in the fifth. Rainey drove in a run in the sixth, while first-year Alexa Johnson (La Crescenta, Calif. / Crescenta Valley) plated one in the seventh.
Pellegrini’s blast gave her a team-high three RBI, while Hunt had three hits and two runs scored out of the leadoff spot.
UP NEXT
The Judges return to action in New England this week with games scheduled to be played next Saturday at Wentworth and Sunday at Simmons.