Softball Edged by Lesley
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Lesley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
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Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final (8) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
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Lesley | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
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Mitchell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
NEW LONDON, Conn. – Mitchell College dropped two games to Lesley University on Sunday afternoon, falling 4-3 and 5-2 in a New England Collegiate Conference softball showdown.
Lesley scored a pair of runs in the seventh inning to snap a 2-2 tie, then held off the Mariners in the home half to claim the opener. The Lynx then needed extra innings to secure the victory in the nightcap, scoring three runs in the eighth inning to pull away.
Mitchell (3-12 overall, 1-7 NECC) and Lesley (8-2 overall, 8-2 NECC) will wrap up their four-game series with a doubleheader on Monday, April 19 at 5 p.m.
Game 1 – Lesley 4, Mitchell 3
Lesley grabbed an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Ilana Zack in the first inning. The score remained the same until the fifth when a ground out by Jenna Bennett tied the game and Hannah Lemke put the Mariners on top with an RBI single.
The Lynx tied things up again the next inning on a single up the middle by Victoria Lujan. In the seventh, Lesley turned three consecutive hits into a pair of runs as Riley Pickett logged an RBI triple and Zack followed with an RBI double.
Lemke knocked in another run with two outs in the seventh to give the Mariners life. However, Lesley's Kara Haga got a ground out to end the game, improving to 4-1 on the year. She allowed three runs (two earned) on seven hits and struck out five.
Mitchell starter Katelyn Lipsky yielded four runs on nine hits and fanned seven in a complete-game performance.
Game 2 – Lesley 5, Mitchell 2 (8 innings)
Lesley built a 2-0 lead on a ground out by Tara Eldredge in the second and an RBI single by Zack in the third. Mitchell cut the deficit in half on an RBI single by Nene Capeles in the fifth before tying the game on a wild pitch in the sixth.
The Lynx got big hits from Jordan Day and Zack in the eighth. Day helped her own cause with a single to center to make it 3-2, and two batters later Zack doubled to left-center to extend the lead to three.
Day retired the Mariners in order in the bottom of the eighth to improve to 4-0. She yielded two runs on five hits over 8.0 innings and struck out a season-high 15 batters.