Softball Victory

By . Published on May 1, 2009

First-year pitcher Kristen Finn (Winthrop, Mass.) won her fourth game of the week, first-year Monica Berube (Plaistow, N.H.) hit a two-run home run and the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College softball team took advantage of seven Bowdoin errors en route to an 8-1 NESCAC East Division victory on Friday. The Bobcats raised their NESCAC East record to 4-3 and are 7-10 overall with their fifth win in the past six games. The Polar Bears dropped to 15-11 overall and 1-3 in NESCAC East play. Finn (4-5) scattered eight hits and four walks while striking out three in earning her fourth straight win. Karen Reni (3-4) accepted the loss in a complete-game effort, allowing eight runs (five earned) on seven hits and two walks. The Polar Bears put a run up in the second for an early lead, as Clare Ronan hit her fifth home run of the season with a leadoff shot to left. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ came back with five runs on five hits in the bottom of the second, beginning with Berube's second homer of the season, a two-run shot to left. Seniors Leah Citrin (Rye Brook, N.Y.) and Val Beckwith (Woburn, Mass.) followed with a single and a double, respectively, and Jean McIntyre drove Citrin in with an RBI single. First-year Lauren Dobish (Chambersburg, Pa.) followed with a two-run double to left, scoring Beckwith and McIntyre. ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ added three more in the fifth inning. Three Bowdoin errors led to two scores, and Berube capitalized with an RBI double to finish the scoring. Berube finished 2-for-3 with a double, a homer and three RBIs, and was the lone Bobcat to have multiple hits, as ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ collected seven in total. Ronan had three of Bowdoin's eight hits, while Shavonne Lord and Hillary Smyth had two apiece.

The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College softball team celebrates an 8-1 NESCAC East Division victory against rival Bowdoin.

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