AMHERST, MA. — Two outs away from a Game two win and a split of Sunday's doubleheader with archrival Amherst. the Williams College softball team endured a nightmarish ending as the Lord Jeffs rallied for four runs and swept the doubleheader, 6-1 anf 7-6.
Williams slipped to 6-11 with the losses, 0-3 in the conference. They are off until Friday, when they begin a three-game series with Wesleyan at Wesleyan at 4 p.m. game. Amherst improved to 15-0 on its season, 3-0 in the NESCAC West.
Trailing 3-2 in the nightcap, Williams went ahead with two runs in the fourth. Merrilee Weston led off with a single and was sacrificed to second by Kaitlin Dinet. After the second out, Amherst native Mo Frank ripped an RBI-double that tied the game. Ali Hart then grounded a single up the middle to score Frank for a one-run lead.
Williams added single runs in the fifth and seventh to build a 6-3 lead. In the fifth, Amanda Correnti's grounder scored a run, and in the seventh, her double down the right field line scored Ali Graebner, who had singled.
First year Emma Harrington got the start and went the first 6 1/3 innings. She came out with one out in the seventh after allowing a Donna Leet double that cut the Eph lead to 6-4. Megan Casey relieved and allowed a single to Reilly Horan and an RBI-double to Idaila Friedson that made it 6-5. Carolyn Miller then singled through the shortstop hole to score Horan and Friedson with the winning runs.
Harrington allowed eight hits and one walk over 6 1/3, striking out eight. Only two of the five runs she was charged with were earned. Casey took the loss, not retiring a batter and giving up three hits and two runs.
Hart was 2 for 3 with an RBI and run scored for the Ephs, while Ally Ensor was 2 for 4 with two RBI.
In the first, Casey and Amherst hurler Theresa Kelly were locked in a scoreless duel through four full innings before the Lord Jeffs broke open the game with a six-run bottom of the fifth inning. Two big Williams errors contributed to the inning with Leet's two-run single being the biggest hit of the frame.
The Ephs lone run came in the sixth when, with one out, Ensor roped a double and scored on Graebner's RBI-single.
Kelly earned the win, going the full seven and allowing five hits and one run, earned. She did not walk a batter while striking out seven. Casey took the loss, goign 4 1/3 innings and giving up four hits and no walks. She struck out five. Only one of the four runs charged to her were earned.
Ensor was 2 for 3 with a run scored for the Ephs.
