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Softball Owls Split With Williams

The Williams College Softball team (20-13) split a pair of non-league games against Keene State (17-10-2) on a beautiful day down at Cole Field, winning the opener 1-0 before falling 6-3 in game two.





                 Junior Katherine Baldwin turned in another gutsy pitching performance for the Ephs, recording the complete game shutout while scattering two hits against five strikeouts.





                 For the first five innings, Owl hurler Missy Zimmerman was just as good, holding the Ephs scoreless on only three hits, but in the sixth inning Williams managed to push the only run of the game across home plate. Senior Jess Hartley smacked a one-out single to left field, and beat the throw to second base from Keene third baseman Nikki Foote on what should have been a fielder's choice off the bat of first-year Kerri McMahon.

 With runners on first and second Baldwin slapped a ground ball with eyes up the middle and into center field, but Fran Vandermeer, headach of Williams softball and the team's third-base coach, held Hartley at third to load 'em up for first-year Courtney Gordon.





                 Gordon, who started the game in place of first-year Mary Baccash who was benched for undisclosed reasons, hit a sharp line drive to leftfielder Adria Reynolds on which Hartley tagged and scored from third. A better throw from Reynolds might have nailed Hartley at the plate,but she got in there and the Ephs had the 1-0 advantage they would close the game with.





                 In the second game, the Ephs battled back from a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning, but junior Kate DeLuca, who started the game on the mound for the Ephs, struggled in the fifth. Melissa Provost had the big hit in the inning, a towering, two-out 2-2 home run to left-center field which gave the Owls a 6-2 advantage.





                 Williams pushed a run across the board in its half of the fifth, but Keene State kept the Ephwomen quiet from there on out to ice the 6-3 victory.





                 Courtesy Williams Sports Information
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