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March 30, 2008
Box Score (Game 1) | Box Score (Game 2)
BABSON PARK, Mass. - The Babson College softball team extended its winning streak to six games with another double-header sweep on Sunday, as the Beavers took two from the visiting University of Southern Maine, 6-1 and 11-3, in non-conference action. With the wins, Babson improved to 11-7 on the year, while the Huskies fell to 5-9. Junior Kaitlyn Clark (Ramsey, N.J.) had a monster day at the plate for the Beavers, going 6-for-7 with four runs and four RBIs in the two games. Senior captain Jess Cohen (Pittsford, N.Y.) added four hits, four runs, and four RBIs for Babson, while first-year Nicole Giuliano (North Reading, Mass.) contributed three hits and three runs batted in. Junior Sabrina Mills (Westford, Mass.), first-year Sarah Deroche (Portland, Maine), and first-year Stacey Stuart (Belgrade, Maine) each posted three hits in the two games for USM, while junior Sabrina Sevigny (Sanford, Maine) drove in two of the Huskies' four runs. In the opener, Babson snapped a scoreless deadlock with three runs in the bottom of the third thanks to three straight RBI-hits from Cohen, Giuliano, and first-year Jess Winer (Longmeadow, Mass.). Cohen doubled in Clark from second with the Beavers' first run and then scored when Giuliano blasted a triple off the wall in center. Winer followed with a run-scoring single to center, giving the hosts a 3-0 cushion. Babson struck again in the fourth, loading the bases behind three straight singles from junior Kim D'Agostino (Woburn, Mass.), sophomore Michelle Bolduc (Darien, Conn.), and junior Courtney Thurston (Taunton, Mass.). Senior pitcher Jess Byrn (Safety Harbor, Fla.) then drove in D'Agostino with a sacrifice fly to right, and Clark followed with a single to center, scoring Bolduc. Clark would later get caught in a rundown between first and second, allowing Thurston to cross the plate with the Beavers' sixth run.
While the Babson offense was putting up six runs and 13 hits, the Southern Maine hitters were stifled by Byrn, who allowed just one run on seven hits while striking out eight in the complete game victory. The hard-throwing righthander's only blemish came in the top of the seventh, when Sevigny singled in rookie pinch-runner Danielle Hayes (Ludlow, Mass.), who had entered the game after a leadoff single by senior Kristina Grondin (Sanford, Maine). The victory was Byrn's fourth straight as she improved to 7-3 on the year. Grondin started and took the loss for USM, giving up six runs and striking out five in six innings of work. The Beavers once again jumped out to a 3-0 lead in game two, as Cohen doubled in Thurston and Clark and then scored on an error in the bottom of the first. However, the Huskies fought back with a run in the second and two more in the fourth to tie the game, with first-year Heather Gilman (Fairfield, Maine) playing a key role in both innings. In the second, she singled, took third on an outfield error, and scored on a wild pitch, and in the fourth she drove in Deroche with a double to center. Sevigny also added an RBI-hit in the fourth as the Huskies knotted the score at 3-3. Babson took the lead for good with two runs in the sixth, as Giuliano hit a clutch two-out double into the left-center field gap, scoring Clark and Cohen and putting the hosts in front, 5-3. The Beavers then erupted for six runs in the sixth to end the game, highlighted by a bases-clearing three-run double down the left field line by Clark. Cohen, D'Agostino, and sophomore Brittney Russo (Middletown, Conn.) also drove in runs in the inning, as Babson claimed the 11-3 victory. Sophomore Danielle Liska (Seymour, Conn.) allowed just three hits and struck out five in 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief to earn the win for the Beavers, evening her season record at 3-3. Sophomore Larissa O'Connor (Farmington, Maine) suffered the loss by gaving up seven runs - three of which were earned - in 5 1/3 innings as she fell to 1-6. |
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