New London, Conn. - The visiting Trinity College Bantams took advantage of seven errors by the United States Coast Guard Academy Bears in a 5-3 softball victory this afternoon.  Trinity improves to 8-7 with its fourth straight win, while the Bears fall to 17-6.  

Trinity took a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI single by junior Katherine Stoltenberg (Montgomery, N.J.) scoring senior Jessica Tait (North Salem, N.Y.), who had reached on an error.  Coast Guard, ranked No. 3 in New England, tied the game in the third as sophomore Maddie Buchert doubled and came around on a sacrifice fly by junior Amanda Frederick.

Trinity took the lead for good with two runs in the fifth. The Bantams took advantage of four errors in the inning to score a pair of runs without a hit.  Tait added an RBI double followed by an RBI single by Stoltenberg in the sixth as Trinity scored two more unearned runs for a 5-1 lead.  The Bears scored twice in the seventh on an RBI double by Buchert and later a two-out RBI single by Frederick, but Trinity sophomore Lindsay Gibbons (Basking Ridge, N.J.), who pitched the final three innings, allowing four hits, got the final out to pickup the save.

Junior Kristen Anderson (West Haven, Conn.) improved to 6-3, pitching the first four innings and allowing just two hits and one run.  Coast Guard's Hayley Feindel was the tough loser as she went the distance and allowed five hits and no earned runs while walking one and striking out 12.

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