KEENE, N.H.--Jen Galavotti was 4-for-4 with three homers and six RBI as the top seeded Keene State College softball team moved into the championship game of the winners bracket with a 9-3 win over No. 3 University of Southern Maine on Friday at Owl Athletic Complex.

Records

• Keene State: 22-14
• Southern Maine: 23-14-1

Up Next

• Keene State will face Western Connecticut State at 10 a.m on Saturday morning.  The Owls split the season series with the Colonials, falling in the opener 2-1 in 11 innings before taking the nightcap 13-8 back on April 2.   Western Connecticut scored four times in the bottom of the seventh for a 6-5 win over UMass Dartmouth in the third game today.
• The Huskies see their season come to an end.

How It Happened

• The Owls mashed out 11 hits, including three from Stephanie Long and two from Morgan Fallon.  Olivia Indorf also homered, a two run shot in the third inning.  Mariah Crisp pitched six innings, striking out seven.
• Keene State, batting as the away team in the game, scored three times in the top of the first and never looked back.  Long and Fallon singled and moved up on an illegal pitch.  Galavotti strode to the plate with two out and clubbed her eighth homer of the year over the left field fence for a 3-0 lead.
• The Huskies got on the board in the bottom of the inning when Mary Caron singled and scored on Courtney Davis' double to left.  The Owls put another three runs on the board in the top of the third.  Kayla Votto walked, stole second, and moved to third on a wild pitch before scoring on Fallon's sacrifice fly to right field.  
• Galavotti followed with a single up the middle, and Indorf cranked her fourth home run of the year to right center to make it 6-1.
• Galavotti, who had not had a two-homer game in her KSC career, made it 8-1 with a two run shot to right field.  USM added another run in the bottom of the fifth on Amber Kelly's RBI double, but Galavotti went deep for a third time with a solo shot to right, a laser beam that just cleared the fence.  She now has 10 homeruns this season, including five in her last six games.   Her 16 career homeruns currently rank fifth on KSC's all-time list, and her 10 this year tie the third highest single season mark.
• Molly St. Germain came on for the seventh inning, and squashed a bases loaded rally by getting Shelby Obert to ground back to her to end the contest.