Medford, Mass. - First-year pitcher Allyson Fournier (South Windsor, Conn.) was perfect as the No. 17-ranked Tufts University softball team blanked the Trinity College Bantams, 8-0, in six innings in NESCAC East play on Friday afternoon at Spicer Field.  Fournier retired all 18 batters she faced, striking out nine of them. She extends her unbeaten start to 9-0 and lowers her ERA to 0.61.

The Jumbo offense plated a run in all but one inning of the game with sophomore catcher Jo Clair (Glastonbury, Conn.) leading the way with three runs driven in. The Jumbos finished the game with 14 hits as both Hedtler and Clair checked in with three hits apiece to improve their batting averages to .500 and .491, respectively. Iuppa, Cantone and Beinecke each had two-hit games as well. Lieman-Sifry scored two runs for Tufts.  Senior Katherine Poulos (Wilton, Conn.) pitched 5.2 innings for the Bantams allowing eight runs (five earned). She struck out six and walked two batters.

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