WELLESLEY, Mass. - Senior Mikayla Cable (Valrico, Fla.) finished the day with five hits, two walks, and four RBI to help lead the MIT softball team to a doubleheader sweep of Wellesley College on Saturday afternoon. Cable and junior Olivia Scarpaci (Staten Island, N.Y.) hit home runs in the game to bring the Engineers' season total to 20.
THE BASICS:
- Scores:
- Game 1: MIT 10, Wellesley 0
- Game 2: MIT 9, Wellesley 4
- Records: MIT (18-8 Overall, 9-3 NEWMAC), Wellesley (12-13-1, 7-7 NEWMAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME ONE:
- The teams were scoreless until the Engineers broke through with seven runs in the fourth inning. Cable, Scarpaci, first year Delaney Benevides (Plainville, Mass.), first year Layla Thiessen (Carlsbad, Calif.), and senior Mackenzie Bivin (San Diego, Calif.) all knocked in a run, and junior Arianna Kumar (San Diego, Calif.) plated two with a triple to right.
- Jill Colgan (Las Vegas, Nev.) doubled with one out in the bottom of the fourth, but junior Caroline Langmeyer (Upper Arlington, Ohio) got the next two Blue batters to fly out and end the inning.
- Bivin doubled and came around to score on a single from classmate Kennedy Adkison (San Jose, Calif.) to make it 8-0. Cable followed with a shot over the right-center field wall to put MIT up 10-0.
- Charis Chung (San Gabriel, Calif.) singled to lead off the first, but after a strikeout and fly out, Chung was thrown out by Scarpaci trying to steal second to end the game.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Langmeyer went five strong, allowing just three hits with no walks and four strikeouts for her tenth win of the season. Senior Katie Katsuyama (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) tossed the final inning and allowed just one hit.
- Thiessen went 3-5 with two RBI and one run scored.
- Cable reached base in all four plate appearances, going 3-3 with a walk, three RBI and two runs scored.
- Bivin and junior Nicole Johnston (St. Charles, Ill.) each had two hits in the game.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME TWO:
- Thiessen and Benevides executed a double steal in the first with Benevides taking home for the first run of the day. Bivin later doubled home junior Ava Ladd (Austin, Texas) for the second run of the inning.
- Adkison laced a single up the middle to plate Ladd for the third run of the day for MIT in the third and Scarpaci followed with a three-run shot over the leftfield wall to make it a six-run game.
- Bivin added an RBI in the sixth and RBI singles from Cable and Ladd gave the visitors a 9-0 lead in the seventh.
- Down to their last out, Wellesley got a bases clearing double from Diana Borrison (San Jose, Calif.) to make it a 9-3 game and Charis Chung (San Gabriel, Calif.) singled home Borrison to cut the MIT lead to five, however first year Sarah Blackett (St. Petersburg, Fla.) got Ruijia Yang (Berwyn, Pa.) to end the game.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- With her double, Bivin now has 36 in her career, two shy of the program record. She finished the day 2-5 at the plate.
- Cable, who went 2-4 with a run and RBI, now has 100 career RBI, making her just the second player in program history, along with Bivin, to reach the 100 RBI mark.
- The Engineers had eight players collect multi-hit games, led by Ladd who went 4-5. MIT totaled 19 hits in the game. All nine starters got a hit in the game.
- Katsuyama went the first two innings with two Ks and one hit. Blackett went the final five to notch her third win of the season. She scattered four hits with three strikeouts and a walk.
UP NEXT:
- MIT will host Brandeis on Wednesday, April 23 for a 4:00 PM game at Briggs Field. The Blue return to action on Wednesday with a doubleheader against Curry College.
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