WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - For the second consecutive doubleheader, the Williams College softball team did not commit a single error Sunday afternoon, as the Ephs earned a split with Bowdoin on Cole Field.
The Ephs (15-9, 7-1 NESCAC) have gone five straight games without committing an error. Williams extended its winning streak to 11 games in a 3-2 seven-inning victory in Game 1. During the second game, the Polar Bears (21-6, 7-5 NESCAC) posted a 6-4 win in seven innings.
During Game 1, senior captain and starting pitcher
Sadie Leonard improved to 11-3 on the season and earned the complete-game victory, striking out 10 batters. Leading the way offensively for the hosts were junior
Katie Blanch (2 of 3, 1 double, 1 run, 1 RBI) and senior
Sidney Miller (2 for 4, 1 RBI).
Maddie Current went the distance in the circle for Bowdoin, only giving up two earned runs in 6 1/3 innings. Maddie Paschke (2 for 3, 1 triple, 1 RBI) and Elise Siciliano (2 of 3, 1 double) registered multi-hit efforts for the visitors.
First-year
Miya Fujimoto tallied an infield single to leadoff the bottom of the first. She scored the game's first run on a two-out, RBI single to right by Blanch. Bowdoin knotted the game at 1-1 on a one-out, one-run single to center by Rosie Panenka during the sixth.
Blanch connected on a two-out double down the left-field line in the sixth, and then scored during the ensuing at-bat on a one-run single to left by first-year
Haley Barrett. The Polar Bears evened the game at 2-2 on a two-out, RBI triple down the right-field line by Paschke in the top of the seventh. Miller came through in the clutch for the Ephs, drilling the game-winning, RBI single to left with one down in the bottom of the seventh, as first-year
Ayane Rokugawa crossed home plate with the winning run.
During the second game, Williams raced out to a 3-0 advantage. In the first, Barrett tallied an RBI when she was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and two outs, as Miller came across home with the first run of the game. Senior captain
Alysa DeQuiroz connected on a two-out, two-run double to right-center in the second, extending the lead to three runs.
Bowdoin scored twice in the fifth, and then Williams built a 4-2 lead in the bottom half of the inning on a one-out, RBI single to right by junior
Justine Dunaway, scoring sophomore
Lauren Davis from second base. Kaitlyn Fado and Anika Ewert drew back-to-back RBI walks with the bases loaded in the sixth for Bowdoin, evening the game at 4-4. Ellie Sullivan scored on a wild pitch, and then Penelope Fong-Picariello tallied an RBI ground out to shortstop, giving the visitors a 6-4 victory.
Junior pitcherÂ
Natalie Carter was strong in the final 1 2/3 innings for the Ephs, not being charged with any runs and not allowing a single hit. Ava Biasotti improved to 3-0 in the circle for the Polar Bears, as she pitched the third, fourth and fifth innings, and then Sophia Hahn was credited with the save, giving up no runs in the final two innings.
The Ephs compete in a single game at Smith on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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