Lewiston, Maine - Senior RHP Kristen Anderson (West Haven, Conn.) and junior RHP Katherine Poulos (Wilton, Conn.) combined to limit the Bates College Bobcat softball team to one run on the day, as the visiting Trinity College Bantams swept a New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division doubleheader at Lafayette Street Field. Trinity won game one, 3-1, and took game two by a 6-0 score to win two out of three games in the series.  Bates drops 5-7 overall and 1-5 in the NESCAC East, while Trinity improves to 14-7 overall and 4-2) in the division.

Anderson improved to 7-2, winning a pitcher's duel and limiting Bates to one run on five hits and one walk over seven innings, while Caroline Gattuso scattered 10 Trinity hits and allowed three runs over seven innings for the Bobcats.  Trinity scored a pair of runs in the third inning, beginning with back-to-back doubles by sophomore SS Caroline Blanchard (Norwich, Conn.) and senior co-captain 2B Karen Stoltenberg (Montgomery, N.J.). After rookie Abby Ostrom (Carlisle, Mass.) singled, she stole second base. The throw from Bates catcher AnnaMarie Martino was off target, allowing Stoltenberg to come home from third for a 2-0 lead.  Bates got one run back in the bottom of the inning. Leah Maciejewski hit a leadoff double, moved to third on Alayna Garbarino's sacrifice bunt, and scored on a wild pitch by Anderson.  The Bantams got an insurance run in the seventh on first-year Christina Galese's (Fairfield, N.J.) towering home run which landed just over the fence in left field.

Poulos, now 6-4, who accepted the loss in yesterday's 3-0 Bates win, this time shut out the Bobcats, scattering seven hits and three walks while striking out three over seven innings. Kristen Finn, yesterday's winning pitcher, took the loss after allowing 11 hits and six runs over six innings before giving way to Gattuso in the seventh.  Trinity got on the board in the first inning, starting with sophomore Kerry McCarthy's (Andover, Mass.) RBI single. Poulos helped her own cause with a two-run double for a 3-0 lead.  The Bantams struck again in the fourth, stringing together seven hits in a row, including a two-run double by Stoltenberg.  Poulos held Bates at bay the rest of the way. The Bobcats left two runners stranded in the seventh following hits by Karen Ullmann and Monica Berube.  Four Bantams had multiple hits in the second game, led by McCarthy's 3-for-4 outing. Stolgenberg and Poulos both went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs.

Game 1 box score

Game 2 box score