Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — First year Megan Casey
fired a 2-hit shutout in the opener Thursday as the Williams
College softball team split a doubleheader with NESCAC rival Tufts
University, winning the first game 3-0 before losing the second,
12-3, in five innings.
The Ephs moved to 11-18-1 with the split, while Tufts is now
16-11. The Ephs open a three-game weekend series with NESCAC West
Division rival Hamilton Friday at 5 p.m. in Clinton, N.Y.
Casey was on top of her game in the first game, allowing a
one-out double that fell to the right-field line in the first by
Emily Beinecke, and then giving up another two-bagger, this one
with one out in the second and toMira Lieman-Sifry. Over the last
five innings she threw no-hit ball. Tufts did load the bases on two
walks and an error in the third, but Casey induced a grounder from
Lieman-Sifry then resulted in a forceout at third base to end the
threat.
Casey's teammates put two runs on the board for her in the
bottom of the first. Senior Jess Cross led off the game by beating
out an infield roller to shortstop. Allison Hart then laced a
single to center and on the play, both runners advanced a base on
an error. After a pop out, first year Cedar Blazek lined a two-run
single to left-center field.
Williams added an insurance run in the fourth when Emily Levy
lined a double off the fence in center. With two outs she stole
third, scoring when Oriana Mcgee beat out an infield chopper to
shortstop for an RBI-single.
Casey closed out the game with a flourish, retiring the Jumbos
1-2-3 in the top of the seventh. She allowed just the two hits
while walking six and striking out three. Levy was 2 for 2 for
Williams, while Blazek and Mcgee were each 2 for 3.
Tufts got its revenge in the nightcap, banging out 12 hits en
route to a 12-3 victory. The Jumbos scored six times in the first
and four more in the second to go up, 10-0. Izzie Santone helped
her own cause with a two-run single in a six-run first inning.
Benecke's two-run single through the right side in the second
highlighted a four-tun Tufts outburst that made it 10-3.
Williams scored a run in the third when Levt stroked a
run-scoring triple. The Ephs added two more in the fourth on
Merrilee Weston's RBI-double down the right-field line and an
RBI-single from Carly Ameen. But Tufts responded with two of its
own in the fifth and after the Ephs went down in order ni the
fifth, the game was called because of the eight-run mercy rule.
Lena Cantone was 3 for 4 with three runs scored for the Jumbos.
Casey Sullivan was 2 for 3 with three runs scored, Beinecke was 2
for 3 with two RBI. Mary Beth Daub took the loss for Williams,
giving up 12 hits and 11 runs while walking two and and fanning
four over five innings.
Santone got the win, allowing six hits and three runs over four
innings. Levy was 2 for 2 for the Ephs.
