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MEDFORD, MA -- No. 5 Tufts University banged
out 14 hits and took advantage of 5 Williams errors Friday en route
to a 9-3 win over the Ephs in the opener of the 2009 NESCAC
Tournament.
Williams dropped to 15-16 with the loss and will play the first
game Saturday at 10 a.m. against either Bates or Wesleyan. Tufts
improved to 36-1 overall.
Williams fell behind 1-0 Friday after one inning, but quickly
tied it in the top of the second off of Tufts ace Lauren Gelmetti.
Morgan Simpson drew a lead-off walk and Emily Fowler-Cornfeld
singled through the right side of the infield. After a double play
left Simpson at third with two outs, Allison Hart beat out a
spinning groundball to second for an RBI-single.
Tufts regained the lead in the bottom of the second. With two
outs and runners on second and third, Laura Chapman hit a tapper
between the plate and the circle that Eph starter Mary Beth Daub
fielded and threw to first, but the ball caromed off
Fowler-Cornfeld's glove. allowing two unearned runs to score.
Tufts scored another unearned run in the third when a pick-off
attempt at second went into center field, allowing Maya Ripecky to
score.
Eph senior Libby Copeland-Halperin made it a 4-2 game in the top
of the fourth when she crushed a Gelmetti offering over the fence
in left field for a solo home run.
Tufts once again answered in its half of the inning, scoring two
runs on four hits to take a 6-2 lead. Chapman beat out a slap to
third and later scored on an error. Ripecky lined an RBI-single to
center field for the sixth run.
In the top of the sixth, Simpson lined a frozen rope over the
fence in center for a solo home run that cut the Ephs deficit to
6-3, but the Jumbos came away with three more runs in the bottom of
the sixth to account for the final score.
Eph senior Joey Lye, who made several nice plays in the field,
finished 2 for 3 for Williams, which finished with seven hits
overall. Simpson was 1 for 2 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Samantha Kuhles led the Tufts hit parade by going 3 for 3 with
two runs scored. Christy Tinker was 3 for 4 with an RBI. Chapman
was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and Danielle Lopez was 2 for 4
with a run scored.
Daub took the loss for the Ephs, allowing 14 hits over six
innings. She walked two and did not strike out a batter. Only six
of the nine runs charged to her were earned. Gelmetti improved to
16-0 for the Jumbos, allowing seven hits and one walk while fanning
one over seven innings.
