Sunday: L, 8–0

Boston College softball’s season certainly ended with a whimper.

Over the course of a three-game weekend series, the Eagles (13–38, 3–21 Atlantic Coast) managed just four hits and zero runs as they were swept by No. 10 Florida State (46–8, 21–3) for their ninth straight ACC loss. Sunday’s game saw BC’s season end with an 8–0 defeat, as the Eagles were shut out for the third straight game. 

“With us having a tough year and them having a great year, it’s always going to be a pretty large gap,” BC head coach Beth Krysiak said. “It’s something that we’re definitely looking to close in the future.”

The Seminoles got going quickly, taking a 1–0 lead in the first after a Jaysoni Beachum double and an RBI single from Anna Hinde. 

After a walk put runners on first and second, Kennedy Harp doubled the lead with a single to left field, and a third single made it 3–0 before BC got out of the inning.

After BC went down in order, Florida State’s offense continued its hot start in the second. Isa Torres hit a one-out single to get a runner on and moved to second on a Beachum walk. Ashtyn Danley singled Torres home, before Hinde hit a sac fly to right to make it 5–0.

The third inning went quietly, as neither team got a hit and the Seminoles took a 5–0 lead to the fifth. Through three innings, BC had yet to get a baserunner. 

Florida State got back to work in the fourth. Back-to-back walks put two runners on with no outs, and a wild pitch got them both into scoring position for Danley. She kept the line moving, hitting a sac fly to left to make it 6–0. 

BC got the second out of the inning, but two more walks loaded the bases and led to another Seminole run. The Eagles secured their first baserunner of the game in the bottom of the frame, as a grounder from Abby Ptak bounced off the shortstop’s and into left field for a single.

In the final game of her senior season, BC let pitcher Halie Pappion come up to the plate for the first time since 2024. Pappion struck out swinging to send the game to the fifth, but for Pappion and BC, the moment was about more than the results.

“It’s important to get your senior on the field in her last game at home and the last game of softball here,” Krysiak said. “So I think it was important for us to get her out there.”

Florida State continued to threaten, getting a baserunner on in both the fifth and sixth innings, but a grounder to short ended the top of the sixth and ensured BC and the Seminoles would play a full seven innings.

The Eagles were unable to cut into the deficit, though, as they could not take advantage of a one-out walk in the sixth. In the top of the seventh, Florida State put runners at the corners on a single and an error, and a fielder’s choice allowed a run to score and make it 8–0. 

Ptak got her second hit of the day to lead off the bottom of the seventh, setting up BC’s final frame of the year. But the Eagles were not able to capitalize, going down in order the rest of the way to take the 8–0 win and hand BC its program-record-tying 38th loss of the season.

With the season coming to a close for BC, Krysiak is focused on the offseason ahead—and with it, the task of rebuilding.

“It’s talking to the players here in the end-of-year meetings, looking to the portal, looking to the incoming class, and continuing to build people that believe in the direction that we’re going,” she said of BC’s next steps. 

Saturday: L, 8–0 F/6

BC was handed its eighth straight ACC loss after an 8–0 mercy-rule win for the Seminoles on Saturday.

Bella Ruggiero’s first-inning single scored runners from second and third to give the Seminoles the early advantage. Both runs were unearned due to a muffed throw from first. 

After an early mound visit for Pappion, she would squeak out of the first inning with no further damage, but the Seminoles weren’t done there.

She dealt a 1-2-3 second inning, but BC’s offense failed to provide Pappion with any momentum, posting a 1-2-3 inning of its own. With a chance to break the game open, the Seminoles responded accordingly. Their leadoff hitter reached on an error, and Beachum’s two-run home run scored both runners, making three of Pappion’s allowed runs unearned.

Florida State drew a one-out walk in the top of the fourth, and another two-run shot extended its lead to 6–0. A two-out double forced Krysiak to give Kelly Colleran an opportunity to stop the bleeding and salvage any chance the Eagles had left.

The Seminoles jumped on her quickly, though, with Beachum doubling on the seventh pitch of the at-bat to drive home their seventh run of the game. 

Janis Espinoza would record BC’s first hit of the game in the bottom of the fifth with a double down the left-field line, but Holly Paharik and Nicole Riddell went out back-to-back to send it to the sixth inning.

A one-out single and double pushed the Seminoles over the run-rule limit, forcing BC to score if it wanted to extend the game any further. Although Sammy Horn and Emma Knight notched consecutive singles, the Eagles failed to capitalize with a runner in scoring position, and the Seminoles took the series with an 8–0 win.

Friday: L, 10–0 F/6

Florida State’s Jazzy Francik recorded a no-hitter in its 10–0 mercy-rule win over BC on Friday night—the beginning to the Seminoles’ three-game sweep of the Eagles.

Bailey Kendziorski let up a double in the first but headed into the second with a tie game on her hands. After a single and a walk, the Seminoles managed to jump out to an early lead after back-to-back doubles scored three runners. 

After a clean third, Kendziorski got two outs early in the fourth, but with two runners already on base, another pair of consecutive doubles scored two more runs. Krysiak then put Colleran in the circle, but she allowed an RBI single on the second pitch of her outing to extend Florida State’s lead to 7–0.

Paharik reaching on a fielder’s choice in the fifth was the only thing that kept Francik from securing a perfect game, but a fly out the very next batter continued her dominance on the mound. 

Three straight hits to kick off the top of the sixth quickly extended the Seminoles’ lead past the run-rule mark to 9–0, and a sac fly two batters later brought them to double-digit runs at 10–0.

BC looked to play the full seven innings, but Francik was too much to handle for its bats, as yet another 1-2-3 inning ended the game at 10–0 for a Florida State victory.