{"id":3729,"date":"2009-05-01T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:28:02","slug":"softball-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/01\/softball-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href="https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/15-72softball65901.jpg"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/05\/15-72softball65901.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nFinn (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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ came back with five runs on five hits in the bottom of the second, beginning with Berube&#039;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.\n\nÀÖ²¥´«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.\n\nBerube 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&#039;s eight hits, while Shavonne Lord and Hillary Smyth had two apiece.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College softball team celebrates an 8-1 NESCAC East Division victory against rival Bowdoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College softball team celebrates an 8-1 NESCAC East Division victory against rival Bowdoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1791,6365,10923],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","tag-bowdoin","tag-nescac","tag-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88705,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/88705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}