Brunswick, Maine - The visiting Trinity College Bantam softball
team led by five runs early but had to score five times in the
seventh inning to take a 12-9 win over the Bowdoin College Polar
Bears in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)
East Division play this afternoon. The Bantams improve to
19-8 overall and 8-1 in the NESCAC, while the Polar Bears drop to
25-10 overall and 4-3 in the league. Trinity has won 15 out
of its last 16 games after posting a 4-7 record in Florida with the
lone loss coming last weekend in eight innings at Tufts by a score
of 3-2. The teams will play a doubleheader at Pickard
Field tomorrow at noon to complete the series. Trinity
clinches a post-season bid with a win tomorrow.
Trinity junior 2B Katherine Stoltenberg (Montgomery,
N.J.) had four hits, four RBI and a run scored in the
win while rookies Kerry McCarthy (Andover, Mass.)
and Caroline Blanchard (Norwich, Conn.) had three
hits apiece. Bowdoin's Gen Barlow paced the Polar Bears with two
hits and three RBI.
The Bantams appeared to be in control early as senior co-captain
SS Patricia Cipicchio (Southmont,
N.C.) blasted a three-run home run in the first
inning to give the visitors the lead. Trinity added two more runs
on a Jessica Tait (North Salem, N.Y.) triple
and Stoltenberg single in the second. Bowdoin battled back,
scoring three runs in the fourth on a pair of wild pitches and a
Barlow single. After Trinity scored two more runs in the fifth to
gain a 7-3 lead, the Polar Bears rallied for four runs in the
bottom of the frame to tie the contest. Shavonne Lord sparked the
rally with a run-scoring double while Clare Ronan, Amy Hackett and
Gen Barlow also had run-scoring hits.
The teams traded single runs in the sixth before the Bantams
exploded for a four-run, two-out rally in the top of the seventh.
With the bases loaded, Tait drew a walk to score the go-ahead run.
Stoltenberg then laced a two-run single followed by a Blanchard hit
to give the Bantams an insurmountable lead.
Junior RHP Kristen Anderson (West Haven, Conn.)
earned the win in relief for Trinity, tossing 2.1 innings and
allowing two earned runs. Julia Jacobs took the loss in relief for
the Polar Bears after allowing three earned runs in 4.1 frames.
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