HARTFORD, Conn. - Sophomore 1B Kennedy Rogers (Pomona, Calif.) drove in the game-winning run with a single and added a two-run homer to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Colby College Mules in New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division softball action this afternoon.  The Bantams improve to 17-12 overall and 7-3 in the NESCAC and Colby drops to 18-13 overall and 6-4 in the division.  The teams will complete the three-game series tomorrow at noon in Hartford.  

Colby took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a single by Jackie Hill, but Trinity answered right back with two runs in the bottom of the inning.  First-year SS Taylor Mikolajczak (John's Creek, Ga.) led off with a walk, stole second, and scored the game-tying run on a groundout by classmate Erin Steed (Orland Park, Ill.). Bantam junior 3B Michaela Russell (Boston, Mass.), who had pushed Mikolajczak to third with an infield single, scored the go-ahead run on Rogers' single. 

Trinity scored three more times in the third frame on an RBI single by Steed and a two-run blast just inside the rightfield foul pole by Rogers.  The Mules got a run back in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly by Amanda Cabral and had two runners on base with out, but Bantam first-year Hannah Mullaney (Hebron, Conn.) gunned down a Mule runner trying to tag up from second on a fly ball to right field to end the inning on a double play.

Trinity senior RHP Jordan Stephan (South Orange, N.J.) improved to 10-5 with her 11th complete game of the spring, scattering 10 hits and walking one with four strikeouts.  Colby's Abby Orso yielded eight hits and fanned five over six innings but fell to 9-4.  Rogers, Russell, and sophomore Gianna Tito (East Hanover, N.J.) had two hits apiece for Trinity, while Chloe Wilcox went 3-for-4 with a double and a run scored for the Mules.