The Lehman College baseball and softball teams will both be in action today as the baseball team will host St. Joseph's of Brooklyn at 5 PM on the South Field and the softball squad will travel to Queens to face York in a single softball game at 1:30 PM.
The Lightning baseball team enters play with a record of 9-21. The Bears of St. Joes stand at 13-17-1.
Last year the teams also met on the South Field with the Lightning coming away with an 8-5 victory. Manny Velasquez picked up the win and
Jarret Oehler recorded the save, The Lightning had built up a 7-0 lead before the Bears rallied with four runs in the sixth. Four different players recorded multiple hits for Lehman including two hits by Mike Zerbo.
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Today's softball game is was supposed to be part of of doubleheader back on April 12 but the second game was rained out. In the first game, the Lightning prevailed 21-0.
Diamond Villegas picked up her sixth win of the season striking out 13. Villegas,
Stephany Cruz and
Marina Delgado each recorded multiple hits. Lehman enters the game with a record of 8-16 overall and 3-2 in conference play. York has struggled this season and are still looking for their first win at 0-13:0-7.
