Williams Softball to Host Conference Title Game Sunday| 05:48PM / Saturday, May 07, 2016 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williams College softball team banged out 13 hits in four innings Saturday, scoring in every inning en route to a 17-4 victory over Tufts in a game shortened to five innings because of the eight-run mercy rule.
Williams (31-8) advanced to Sunday’s 1 p.m. championship of the 2016 NESCAC Tournament and will need one win to capture the title. Tufts (26-9) faced Amherst later Saturday in another elimination game.
The Ephs scored five times in the first against the Jumbos, the defending NESCAC and national champions. They added three in the second, five in the third and four in the fourth.
In the first, Erica Li drew a lead-off walk from Tufts starter Erica County and took second on Jessica Kim fielder's choice. Lexi Curt then lashed an RBI single through the right side of the infield. Mackenzie Murphy followed with a bloop RBI-double just inside the right-field foul line for a 2-0 lead.
After an out, Kacey Cramer walked and sophomore Brenna Martinez lined a two-run single into left-center field for a 4-0 lead. Tayler Donze capped the big first inning by shooting an RBI-single up the middle to score Cramer.
The Ephs added to their lead in the second when sophomore Margo Beck crushed a three-run homer to left for an 8-0 lead. In the Williams third, RBI-singles by Murphy, Ashley Wirth and Casey Pelz made it 12-0. Melissa Cendejas scored a run and drove in a run in the inning.
Women’s Tennis
LEWISTON, Maine -- The top-seeded Williams women’s tennis team began the NESCAC Tournament with a win on Saturday, overcoming fifth-seeded Wesleyan in five matches.
Doubles got the day started, going 3-0 in close matches. Juli Raventos and Linda Shin finished first by a score of 8-5. Maya Hart and Giulia McDonnel Nieto del Rio followed with an 8-6 victory, before Julia Cancio and Hannah Atkinson finished the sweep with a 9-8(7) win.
Going into singles up 3-0, the Ephs needed just two wins to clinch. Leah Bush supplied the first one, overcoming Wesleyan’s sophomore Dasha Dubinsky 6-1, 6-0. Shin clinched the day with a 6-3, 6-1 victory. Mia Gancayco, Raventos, Cancio, and Atkinson all began singles matches that did not finish.
Williams will face second-seeded Middlebury in Sunday’s championship match.
Men’s Lacrosse
MEDFORD, Mass. -- Zach Richman scored eight goals to lead the Tufts men’s lacrosse team to a 19-11 win over Williams on Saturday in the semifinals of the NESCAC tournament.
Michael Fahey scored five goals, and Miles McCarthy stopped 13 shots for Williams (10-7).
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