Williams Women's Golfers Win in Dominating Fashion06:03PM / Sunday, April 29, 2018 | |
Williams women's golf coach Tomas Adalsteinsson presents the team trophy to seniors Madeline Abrahams, Elizabeth Gudas and Phoebe Mattana on Sunday.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Williams College's women's golf team Sunday posted tied the team record it set Saturday at Taconic Golf Club with another 301 to blow away the field at the Williams Spring Invitational.
Cordelia Chan took medalist honors with a 1-over-par 73 on Sunday to finish at 3-over 147 for the tournament and edge teammate Elizabeth Gudas by one stroke.
Six Ephs finished in the top 10 of the 53-player field with Phoebe Mattana placing sixth, Holly Davenport and Isabella Wang tying for eighth and Renee Kwak, playing as an individual, tying for 10th.
Williams' two-day score of 602 was 33 strokes ahead of runner-up Carnegie Mellon.
The event drew eight teams, including three of the top six Division III squads in the east region according to the NCAA's latest regional rankings: No. 2 Williams, No. 4 Carnegie Melon and No. 6 Amherts, which finished fourth (654) behind Middlebury (650).
SOFTBALL
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Williams capitalized on two Bowdoin errors to score in the bottom of the seventh, breaking a 5-5 tie and completing a Sunday sweep over the Polar Bears for the Ephs' 11th straight win.
In the first game of Sunday's double-header, Brenna Martinez doubled home a pair of runs in the bottom of the first as Williams (32-6) rallied for all the runs it needed in a 3-1 win.
Rebecca Duncan struck out nine to earn the win in the circle.
In the nightcap, Rebecca Duncan, Margo Beck and Kirstin Mapes each homered to help the Ephs build a 5-4 lead after five innings.
Bowdoin rallied to tie the game in the top of the sixth, but the unearned run in the bottom of the seventh decided it.
Mackenzie Murphy scattered 11 hits to earn the win.
BASEBALL
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Wesleyan scored four times in the bottom of the first and cruised to a 9-0 win over Williams on Sunday.
Tom Benz and Alex Panstares doubled for the Ephs (8-19), who got seven innings on the mound from George Carroll.
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