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BRONX, N.Y. – The Yeshiva University softball team concluded the 2016 season by sweeping York College, in a non-conference doubleheader at Fordham University, on Thursday evening. The Maccabees won the first game, 12-4, and was victorious in game two, by a score of 8-0. Thanks to the two victories. Yeshiva now sets a new program record for most wins in a single season with seven. The Maccabees won six games in both the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

In game one, York scored a pair of runs in the top of the first to take a 2-0 advantage. Yeshiva would answer in the bottom of the first, as senior pitcher Rachel Mirsky belted her fifth home run of the season, which sets a new program record, to slice the Maccabees' deficit in half.

After York was held scoreless in the top of the second, Yeshiva scored five runs in the bottom frame to take control of the contest. Sophomore utility player Shoshana Rozenberg drove in two of those runs on a single, scoring senior outfielder Rachel Siegel and junior utility player Hannah Dubin, to catapult Yeshiva to a 3-2 lead. She eventually came around to score thanks to an RBI single off the bat of senior outfielder Merav Saden Barach. The next batter, senior shortstop Rebecca Kleiner, scorched an RBI triple to extend Yeshiva's lead to 5-2. Mirsky put a cap on Yeshiva's second inning rally by driving in Kleiner on a sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the third, Siegel produced an RBI single to make it 7-2 in favor of the Maccabees. Yeshiva's lineup would continue to produce in the home half of the fourth, scoring five more runs. The highlight of the inning was a two-run single by senior third baseman Erin Potasnick, scoring Mirsky and Kleiner.

In the top of the fifth, Mirsky struck out the last two batters she faced to clinch game one for Yeshiva.

For the contest, Mirsky earned the complete game victory, recording nine strikeouts in five innings pitched. Senior utility player Annie Jaffe produced an RBI double, while sophomore first baseman Michal Alge tallied a single.

In the second game, Yeshiva (7-22) scored at least one run in every inning. In the bottom of the first, Saden Barach ripped a triple. She would eventually score on a sacrifice fly by Kleiner. After Mirsky doubled, she scored on an error in center field to make it 2-0 Maccabees. Sophomore utility player Liat Wasserman led off the bottom of the second with a double, and would eventually come around to score on an RBI single by Siegel. In the home half of the third, Alge scored on an RBI single from Dubin.

Yeshiva scored three more runs in the fourth, thanks to an RBI single by Kleiner, and a two-run single from Mirsky.

York (2-18) was retired in order in the top of the fifth to clinch the sweep for Yeshiva. In the circle, Mirsky picked up another complete game victory, giving up just one hit, while striking out four batters in five innings, to earn the shutout. She now finishes the season with 28 complete games. Her seven wins in the circle are the most by a pitcher in team history.