Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — Mary Beth Daub threw a
complete-game five-hitter and Carly Ameen backed her with a
three-run home run Monday as the Williams College softball team
took the opener of a doubleheader with Springfield College by a 4-1
score.
The Pride came back to take the nightcap by a 15-7 score. The
game ended after five innings due to the eight-run mercy rule.
Williams is now 7-14 after the split, while Springfield moved to
15-14 overall. Williams is back in action Wednesday for a road
doubleheader against Keene State beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Daub was in splendid form against the Pride in the opener
Monday. She did not walk a batter until the top of the seventh, and
did not allow a run until there were two outs in that frame. In the
meantime, her teammates spotted her three runs in the second and
another in the third to build a 4-0 lead.
Daub started the second inning herself with a single but was
forced out at second on an Amanda Correnti groundball. Kaitlin
Dinet followed with a single up the middle, and both runners moved
up on Erica Wu's groundout. That brought up Ameen, who got into a
Katie Anderson offering and drove it over the fence in dead center
field for a three-run home run and a 3-0 lead.
Williams added a run in the third when Correnti laid down a
perfect suicide squeeze bunt that scored Cedar Blazek, who had
reached on a fielder's choice, stolen second base and moved to
third on a Daub single.
Daub and the defense behind her did the rest. In the Pride's
fourth, Michelle Wlosek singled with one out, but Dinet snared a
line drive off the bat of Bryn Worrilow and doubled the runner of
first to end the inning. The Pride did not threaten until the
seventh when Worrilow drew a one-out walk and was pinch run for by
Kelsey Dunn. With two outs, Amanda Novak ripped an RBI-double to
right center, but Daub retired Liz Milly on a comebacker to end the
game.
Daub's final line: Seven innings, five hits and one walk allowed
with three strikeouts. She was also 2 for 3 at the plate.
Anderson took the loss for Springfield, allowing four hits and
four runs over three innings. Novak was 3 for 3 with an RBI in the
loss, while Wlosek was 2 for 3.
Wlosek led a 19-hit Pride attack in the second game by going 3
for 3 with 5 RBI and a home run. Worrilow was 4 for 4 with three
runs scored and five other Pride batters had two hits each.
Springfield took a 4-0 lead in the first when Kelly Blake had an
RBI-double and scored on Wlosek's RBI-single to left. Worrilow then
singled to right and Wlosek scored on an error on the play. Breann
Joyce followed with a single, and Novak scored Worrilow with a
fielder's choice that forced out Joyce.
Williams battled back with four of their own in the bottom of
the inning. With two outs and no one on, Blazek hit a solo home run
to right field off Pride starter Megan Fitzgerald. Daun and
Correnti followed with consecutive singles, and Dinet then hit a
laser to straightaway center that cleared the fence for a
game-tying three-run home run.
However, Springfield responded with three more in the top of the
second off of Williams starter Megan Casey. With runners on second
and third, Wlosek, who became the Pride's all-time home run king
Sunday, launched a three-run homer to center. Williams got two back
in the third when Blazek singled and came around to score on a wild
pitch and Ameen's fielder's choice scored Daub, who had singled.
Springfield still led 9-7 after four but put the game away with
a six-run top of the fifth inning in which it recorded seven hits,
including an RBI-single by Wlosek.
Casey took the loss for the Ephs, allowing 13 hits and 10 runs,
eight earned, over 3 1/3 innings. She did not walk a batter and
struck out one. Stef Grande earned the win in relief for the Pride,
giving up five hits and three runs, two earned, while walking one
and fanning four over 4 1/3 innings.
Williams had 10 hits in the loss, with Dinet, Blazek and Daub
each having two. Dinet drove in four runs.
