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CLINTON, NY — Junior shortstop Joey Lye went 7 for 9
Saturday and her team banged out 32 hits as Williams College swept
a doubleheader from NESCAC West rival Hamilton, 11-2 and 11-7.
The Ephs improved to 12-13 overall, 3-2 in the NESCAC. They play
a third game with the Continentals Sunday at 11 a.m.
With her big day, Lye raised her team-leading average to .475.
She opened the first inning of the first game with a triple and
scored when Becky Sansone smashed an RBI-double. Libby
Copeland-Halperin ripped an RBI-single for a 2-0 lead.
The Ephs led 2-1 after four innings, but scored three times in
the top of the fifth to gain some breathing room. Senior Katie
Powers roped an RBI-double that scored Sansone, who had walked. An
error allowed another run to score and sophomore Mary Gelber made
it 5-1 with an RBI-single.
The Ephs finished the game with 18 hits. Lye was 3 for 5 with an
RBI ad two runs scored. Sansone finished 2 for 4 with two RBI and
three runs scored. Powers was 2 for 4, Copeland-Halperin went 2 for
5 with three RBI.
It was more than enough for junior Morgan Simpson, who limited
Hamilton to five hits over seven innings of work while walking one
and striking out five. She also went 2 for 3 at the plate.
Williams first-year hurler Mary Beth Daub was the beneficiary of
the Ephs 14-hit attack in the second game. The Ephs broke the game
wide open with a six-run top of the second. Katie Blankshain had an
RBI-fielder's choice and Sansone had an RBI-single before senior
Taryn Goodman capped the uprising with a two-out, bases-loaded,
three-run triple.
Lye went 4 for 4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Sansone went
2 for 5 with one RBI and two runs scored. Powers was 1 for 3 with
two RBI and a run scored. Goodman was 1 for 3 with three RBI.
Blankshain had two hits.
Daub earned the win despite some late sloppiness in the field.
She allowed eight hit and seven runs, only three earned, over seven
innings. Daub walked one and fanned a career-best nine to pick up
her first collegiate victory.
"The top of our order did very well today," Ephs head coach Kris
Herman said. "We hit the ball well throughout the line-up, we got
the lead runner on, we moved runners over and we took advantage of
their mistakes."
