Box Score
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – Williams College
rallied for eight runs in the top of the sixth inning Saturday en
route to an 8-4 elimination game victory over Tufts University in
the 2010 NESCAC Tournament.
The Ephs (17-20-1) will face the loser of Wesleyan-Bowdoin
match-up scheduled for later Saturday tomorrow morning at 9 in
another elimination contest. Tufts finished its season at
22-13.
Tufts scored one run in the first and three in the third to
build a 4-0 lead. Jumbos' starter Izzy Santone had a
three-hit shutout going into the top of the sixth when Allison Hart
led off the frame by beating out an infield hit to second.
After a 25-minute lightning delay, the Ephs came out hitting.
Merrilee Weston singled up the middle and Cedar Blazek singled to
right to load the bases. Mary Beth Daub's groundout scored
Hart with the Ephs first run. Caitlyn Cain drew a walk from Santone
to re-load the bases. Amanda Correnti then grounded a slow roller
to the edge of the infield grass that scored a run to make it 4-2.
Carly Ameen then lined a single to right for an RBI-single
that made it 4-3.
Santone got Oriana Mcgee to hit into a forceout on Cain at the
plate for the second out. But Emily Levy then lined a one-hop shot
toward right field. Tufts second baseman Emily Beinecke made a
great diving attempt on the ball, but it glanced off her glove and
into right for a two-run single and a 5-4 Williams lead.
Hart came up again and slapped a hit to the left side that went
for a single, scoring Ameen. Weston then capped the uprising with a
shot into the right-center field gap that made it 8-4 and drove
Santone from the game.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Jumbos put together a rally
against Eph starter Megan Casey. Stefanie Tong led off and reached
on an error. Julia Silberman was hit by a pitch and Bri Cilley
singled up the middle to load the bases with no outs.
Casey settled down, striking out a pinch-hitter, getting Lizzy
Luppa on a pop out to third and then retiring Mira Lieman-Sifry on
a grounder to third that resulted in an inning-ending forceout at
third.
Beinecke went 2 for 4 with two RBI for Tufts and Tong had two
RBI. Santone took the loss, allowing 11 hits in 5 2/3 innings while
walking two and striking out two.
For the Ephs, Casey picked up the win, going seven full frames
and giving up six hits while walking three and striking out three.
Ameen was 2 for 3 with an RBI, and both Hart and Weston finished 2
for 4.
