BOSTON, Mass. – Olivia Scarpaci recorded her 100th career hit in game one while Arianna Kumar hit a walk-off single in extra innings in game two as the MIT softball team swept Springfield in a NEWMAC doubleheader on Friday afternoon at the Boston University softball field.
THE BASICS:
- Scores:
- Game 1: MIT 4, Springfield 1
- Game 2: MIT 7, Springfield 6 (8 Innings)
- Records: MIT (21-3 Overall, 7-1 NEWMAC); Springfield College (14-5 Overall, 5-3 NEWMAC)
HOW IT HAPPENED GAME ONE:
- The Engineers got to Amelia DeRosa early, plating four runs in the first inning. Layla Thiessen and Delaney Benevides worked back-to-back walks to open the first and scored on a two-out single from Lauren Sundquist. Holland Poe and Olivia Scarpaci both had RBI singles with two strikes to account for the final two runs of the inning.
- Taylor Falotico and DeRosa had back-to-back two out singles in the third, but Sharona Huang got a groundout to Kumar at short to end the frame.
- DeRosa got the Pride on the board in the fifth with an RBI single, but the Pride would strand two more runners on base to keep the score 4-1.
- Haley Ball hit a single to left to open the seventh, but Layla Thiessen sent a perfect throw to second to get Ball out. Falotico then hit an infield single, but Huang got two groundouts to secure the 4-1 win.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Huang moves to 5-1 with her third complete game of the season. She allowed just one run on nine hits with one walk and three Ks. DeRosa went six and fell to 9-4 as she allowed nine hits with four walks and three strikeouts.
- Scarpaci recorded her 100th career hit with her single in the first, finishing the game 3-3. Poe and Maggie Feng also had multi-hit games for MIT.
- Sundquist finished with two RBI to give her 22 this season, good for third best on the team.
HOW IT HAPPENED GAME TWO:
- Yet again MIT struck first with a double from Ladd scoring Benevides to give the home team a 1-0 advantage.
- Kate Katsetos walked to leadoff the second and scored on a double from Ball to tie the game.
- Poe led off the fourth with a triple down the right-field line and scored on a double to center from Julia Mattiace. A sacrifice fly from Thiessen gave MIT a 3-1 lead and got two more runs off an error by the Pride off the bat of Ladd to put them up 5-1.
- The Pride responded with a three-run fifth to cut into the Engineer lead. Carissa Pecchia doubled home the first two runs of the inning, and the third run came across on a fielder's choice off the bat of Brynlee Eckles. A single from Ball loaded the bases, but Sarah Blackett got Taylor Falotico to groundout and end the inning.
- A leadoff triple by DeRosa in the sixth allowed the Pride to pull even as a Reilly Hunter sacrifice fly plated DeRosa to make it five all. Ladd tripled with two outs in the bottom of the sixth but was left stranded.
- Both team's went down in order in the seventh to send the game to extras.
- Madison Testo doubled home the go-ahead run for Springfield in the eighth, but Emily Watson got Reilly Hunter to line out to Ladd at third as the Pride left two runners stranded.
- Mattiace quickly tied the game on the second pitch she saw to score Amanda Huang. MIT then loaded the bases for Ladd who hit into a fielder's choice for the second out, bringing up Kumar with the bases loaded. She took the 2-1 pitch into center to score Thiessen with the winning run.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Watson got the win in relief of Blackett to improve to 7-0 as she tossed three innings allowing two runs (one earned) on two hits and one walk. Blackett went the first five, surrendering four runs on eight hits with four walks and four strikeouts.
- Mattiace led MIT with three hits and two RBI. while Benevides, Ladd, Sundquist, Poe and Feng all had two.
- Testo went 4-5 to lead the Pride at the plate.
UP NEXT:
- The Engineers will continue with NEWMAC play tomorrow, Saturday April 11 when they head to Clark for a NEWMAC doubleheader beginning at 12:00 PM.
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