POMONA, CA. -- Four players had two hits in one inning during
the nightcap of a doubleheader against Middlebury Saturday as the
Ephs salvaged a split -- and took the three-game series -- with a
14-3 victory at Pomona College.
Williams moved to 4-3 overall with the split, 2-1 in the NESCAC
West. The Ephs will play Chapman University in a doubleheader
Monday beginning at 3 p.m.
In the opener Saturday, Middlebury junior Kristin Maletsky
launched a two-out, two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the
seventh inning to give the Panthers a 4-2 victory.
Williams led that game 2-0 entering the bottom of the sixth, but
the Panthers clawed their way to a run in the sixth and three in
the seventh to emerge victorious. The Ephs were limited to four
hits, one each by Morgan Simpson, Emily Fowler-Cornfeld, Carly
Ameen and Libby Copeland-Halperin (double.).
Simpson started and went five-plus innings for Williams,
allowing five hits and one run, earned. Fowler-Cornfeld entered the
game in the bottom of the sixth with one run already in and the
bases full with Panthers. She got a forceout at home for the first
out and then a 6-2-5 double play to end the frame.
But Maletsky's hit saddled her with the loss. She allowed three
runs on four hits over 1 2/3 innings.
There would be no such problem in the second game as the Ephs
sent 16 women to the plate in the third inning scoring 11 runs on
12 hits. Ameen, Jess Cross, Joey Lye and Caitlyn Cain each had two
hits in the uprising.
Ameen got things started with a one-out single. Cross walked.
Lye singled to load the bases. Cain singled home one run, and Becky
Sansone followed with another RBI-single. Simpson then cleared the
bases with a three-run triple on a bullett down the left-field
line.
Fowler-Cornfeld singled her home and, after the second out,
Jesse Herzer lined a single. Ameen was up again and she kept the
inning going with an RBI-double. Cross came through with a two-run
single and Lye had another RBI-single. Sansone capped the inning
with an RBI-double.
Lye finished the game 3 for 3 with two runs scored. Ameen was 2
for 3, as was Sansone (two RBI), as was Cain, who had two RBI.
Mary Beth Daub, the second of three Eph hurlers, picked up the
win, allowing one hit and one walk over 1 1/3 innings.
