Mitchell Softball Advances With Two Wins at NECC Championship
Game 2 - Mitchell College 4, Elms College 0
BOSTON, Mass. - The Mitchell College softball team won two games on
Saturday and have put themselves in the best possible situation to
win the championship going into the final day of play.
Mitchell (16-16-1) will face the winner of the game at 11:00 am on
Sunday, May 3 between Lesley University and Daniel Webster
College. In game two of the tournament, freshman shortstop
Stacey Suplicki (New London, Conn./Saint Bernard) went 3-for-3 with
two RBIs as she led the Mariners over the #2 seed Elms College
Blazers with a 4-0 shutout victory.
Mariners freshman hurler Kristina Torres (Groton, Conn./Fitch)
blanked Elms through seven innings, giving up four hits and walking
two while striking out nine batters. Torres improved to 8-9
on the season with the victory.
The Mariners scored in the third inning on an RBI single by Nikki
Hoxie (Winsted, Conn./The Gilbert School). Hoxie would reach
third base with just one out, but Elms' Ani Ramsdell (Gardner,
Mass./Gardner) struck out the next two batters to escape the
jam.
The score remained 1-0 through the next three innings until
Mitchell opened up their lead with a three-run top of the seventh
inning. Mariners leadoff hitter Lindsey Donelin (Niantic,
Conn./Stonington) beat out a groundball to third for an infield
single, stole second, advanced to third base on a passed ball and
then scored on a wild pitch to put her team up 2-0. Suplicki
did her damage in this inning with a two-out two-RBI double down
the left field line to give Mitchell breathing room going into the
bottom of the seventh.
Elms leading hitters were Alison McBride (East Providence,
R.I./East Providence) who had two hits and Kerrie Bowden (Chicopee,
Mass./Chicopee Comprehensive) and Kelly Callahan (Monson,
Mass./Monson) who each tallied a hit.
Game 4 - Daniel Webster
2, Mitchell College 3 (F - 8 INN)
BOSTON, Mass. - The lone 1-0 teams from day one of the NECC
softball tournament went into a tie-breaker scenario in the eighth
inning and despite Daniel Webster gaining a one-run advantage in
the top of the eighth, Mitchell came right back to score two runs
in the bottom half of the frame to earn a dramatic victory.
Tied up 1-1 in the top of the eighth, Daniel Webster's Tiana Winter
(New Ipswich, N.H./Mascenic) singled to bring in Amanda Wilson
(Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack) who had been placed on second base to
start the inning.
With the 2-1 deficit, the Mariners wasted no time tying the score
on a triple to right centerfield by Liz Roy (Jewett City,
Conn./Griswold) that drove in Donelin. The next batter, Sara
Krolikowski (Bristol, Conn./Bristol Eastern), walked and forced a
rundown as she took off towards second base. Roy raced
towards home and scored as the catcher bobbled the throw home to
give Mitchell the walk-off victory.
Mitchell's Torres in her second game of the day on the mound,
pitched eight innings to earn her second win of the day.
Eagles' pitcher Langlois added 12 more strikeouts to her total but
took the loss.
