WATERVILLE, Maine --- Alex Essman (Littleton, Mass.) scored on a
wild pitch in the bottom of the 12th inning to help the
Colby College softball team to a 9-8 come-from-behind victory in
the opener and Alyssa Lepore (Victor, N.Y.) kept up her hot hitting
in both games as the Mules swept a doubleheader from Trinity
College in New England Small College Athletic Conference East
Division softball Saturday. Lepore doubled and homered in
each game, including the 7-0 win in the nightcap.
Colby, which improved to 15-8 overall and 2-7 in the NESCAC,
trailed, 8-2, after the top of the fifth inning of the opener. The
Bantams got back-to-back homers from Nicole Nardella
(Beverly, Mass.) and Ariana Mullin (Woodbridge,
Conn.) in the first inning. Taylor LaRese
(Southington, Conn.) had a two-run double and
Jessica Tait (North Salem, N.Y.) had an RBI single
in the third inning. Trinity got its final three runs in the fifth
inning on a two-run single by Erika Klotz (Naperville,
Ill.) and an RBI single from Katherine Stoltenberg
(Montgomery, N.J.).
The Mules had lone runs in the first and fourth innings. Allyson
Cheever (Augusta, Maine) scored on an error in the first inning and
Meryl Poulin (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) had an RBI single in the
fourth. Cheever had two hits and two runs in the game. The
Mules exploded for four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning,
with an RBI single from Barbara Santos (Topsfield, Mass.) and RBI
groundouts from Essman and Tory Starr (Dunbarton, N.H.).
Christine Gillespie, who had two hits and two runs, had a one-out
single in the sixth inning and then scored on Lepore's home run to
tie the game at 8-8.
Alyssa Crowell entered the game in relief in the fifth inning
and worked the rest of the way for the victory for Colby. In
the second game, Brittany Tasi (Shelton, Conn.) tossed a five-hit
shutout and got more hitting support from Lepore. She doubled and
scored in the third inning and smacked another two-run homer in the
sixth inning. Essman and Santos had a RBI singles in a
three-run fifth inning. Essman finished the game at 4-for-4 and
Lepore was 2-for-3.
Game 1 box
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Game 2 box
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