THE BASICS:
 
- Scores:
Game 1: MIT - 2, Emerson - 0
Game 2: MIT - 13, Emerson - 6
 
- Records: MIT (16-1, 4-0 NEWMAC), Emerson (10-10, 0-4 NEWMAC)
 
- Location: Boston, Mass. (Rotch Field)
 
- The Lead: The MIT softball team continued its winning ways with two NEWMAC road victories over Emerson on Friday afternoon. The Engineers have won their last 13 games.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. GAME ONE:
 
- Sophomore Kennedy Adkison (San Jose, Calif.) doubled to lead off the game and came around to score on a double to right-center by sophomore Mackenzie Bivin (San Diego, Calif.).
 
- Emerson could not get much going offensively against MIT starter Caroline Langmeyer (Upper Arlington, Ohio) as the Lions put five runners on base during the game.
 
- The Engineers added an insurance run on an RBI single from sophomore Mikayla Cable (Valrico, Calif.) in the fifth and went on to win game one 2-0.  
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
 
-  Langmeyer recorded her eighth win of the year with the complete game shutout. She walked just three batters and allowed only two hits while striking out eight.
 
- Cable led MIT offensively as she went 2-4 with an RBI.
 
- Jessica Gomez took the loss for Emerson to fall to 7-5. She threw all seven innings and allowed two runs (one earned) on six hits. She walked two and struck out four.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED vs. GAME TWO:
 
- Senior Jordan Sell (Schwenksville, Pa.) gave the Engineers a 1-0 lead in the first with her homer to center.
 
- A four-run third gave MIT a 5-0 lead. Cable hit a two-run homer while Bivin and Adkison knocked in runs in the frame. The hosts got one run back in the bottom of the inning to cut the MIT lead to four.
 
- The Engineers used a five-run fifth to pull ahead 10-1. Bivin recorded her second RBI of the game while Cable and senior Haley Samuelsen (Houston, Texas) each knocked in two runs in the inning.
 
- Emerson began to chip away at the MIT lead with three runs in the fifth. MIT got a run back in the sixth on a Cable RBI, but the Lions scored two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to make it an 11-6 game.
 
- RBI from Sell and first year Kara Hines (Cynthiana, Ky.) gave the Engineers a 13-6 lead as Emerson came up for its final at-bats. The Lions got a lead-off single, but graduate student Deb Torres (Portage, Mich.) retired the next three batters to secure the win for MIT.
 
INSIDE THE BOXSCORE:
 
- Sell and first year Ava Ladd (Austin, Texas) led the way for MIT with three hits each in the game. Sell also scored three runs and knocked in two while Ladd came around to score two runs in the game.
 
- Sophomore Becca O'Connor (San Antonio, Texas) pitched four innings and allowed just one run. She struck out four and did not walk a batter. Torres pitched the last two innings and allowed two runs on three hits.  
 
- Cable finished 2-3 with a career-best five RBI in the game. She leads the team with a .491 batting average so far this season.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- The Engineers are back on the field tomorrow, Saturday, April 8 for a NEWMAC doubleheader against Clark. First pitch at Briggs Field is scheduled for 12:05 p.m.   
 
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