Softball wins 12th straight, sweeps Salve Regina
April 14, 2011
Beverly, Mass. – The Endicott softball team extended its’ win streak to 12 games with a doubleheader sweep of Salve Regina in The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) action Thursday afternoon. Jenna Bortolotti (Milton, Mass.) went the distance in game one before the Gulls built a big lead in game two and withstood a late rally from the Seahawks on their way to the win.
Game One Recap: Endicott 9, Salve Regina 1
Game One Boxscore
Bortolotti scattered three hits over five innings while allowing just one run to improve to 9-3 on the season. Freshmen Jesse Bilafer (Concord, Mass.) and Mattie Brett (Waterford, Conn.) each drove in a pair of runs in the win. Brett and senior Ashley Wright (Merrimack, N.H.) homered in the win.
Kristen Parolise (Hamden, Conn.) accounted for Salve Regina’s only run of the game with a solo home run in the top of the second inning.
Brett smashed a two-run home run in the bottom of the first as the hosts built an early 2-0 lead.
Parolise’s solo shot cut the deficit in the half before the Gulls put three more on the board in the bottom of the second.
Krista Fales (Melrose, Mass.) doubled to left-center with nobody on and one out. Alexandra Moise (North Reading, Mass.) followed with a single through the left side before Bilafer doubled to left field to drive them both in. Freshman Jennie Lacolla (Stoneham, Mass.) scored Bilafer and made it 5-1 with an RBI single to left field.
Bortolotti kept the Seahawks off the board and without a hit over the final three innings.
Wright hit her first home run of the year as part of a two-run third before Endicott tacked on one run in each of the final two innings. Moise’s double plated Colleen Martin (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) in the bottom of the fifth to induce the eight-run rule.
Martin finished with two runs and a pair of walks while Moise and Fales each went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Jen Cruver (North Haven, Conn.) took the loss for Salve Regina, allowing 12 hits and nine runs in 4.1 innings of work.
Game Two Recap: Endicott 12, Salve Regina 9
Game Two Boxscore
Endicott built a 10-2 lead through the first three innings of play and looked poised for a big win, but Salve Regina responded with three runs in the top of the fifth and four in the sixth to pull within two. Wright supplied a late insurance run as the Gulls held on to improve to 21-5 and 15-1 in TCCC play. The Seahawks drop to 9-23 and 7-11 in the conference.
The visitors took advantage of an Endicott error, one of five on the day for the hosts, to put the first run on the board in the top of the first.
The Gulls responded with four runs in the bottom half of the inning. Endicott’s first three batters reached base safely before Brett’s sacrifice fly scored Jocelyn Russo (Middletown, Conn.) from third. Hayley Hovhanessian (Farmington, Conn.) and Wright added RBIs in the inning to build a three-run lead.
Christina Walsh (Putnam Valley, N.Y.) doubled to right-center to drive in Jillian Quintana (Denver, Colo.) in the top of the second and trim the deficit to two.
Ahead 4-2 in the bottom of the third, the Blue and Green erupted for six runs on six hits to build an eight-run lead. Nicole Devlin (Dudley, Mass.) and Alexandra Moise each drove in two runs during the inning.
Devlin’s RBI single in the bottom of the fourth made it 11-2 as the game seemed to be headed for the eight-run rule once again.
Salve Regina did not go down quietly and put together a three-run fifth inning to extend the game. Courtney Fleming (Wethersfield, Conn.) hit a sacrifice fly to close the gap to eight before Sara Nelson’s (Bristol, Conn.) two-out, two-RBI double made it 11-5.
The Seahawks took advantage of four fielding errors in the top of the sixth inning to score four runs and pull within two.
Wright provided a bit of breathing room with a single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth before freshman Nell O’Connor (Harwich, Mass.) shut the door with a 1-2-3 seventh inning.
Lacolla picked up the win to improve to 3-1 on the season while Marissa Simpson (Brimfield, Mass.) was credited with the loss to drop to 5-9.
Endicott, winners of 16 of the last 17 games, is in action tomorrow (April 15) when it plays host to Babson at 3:00 pm for a non-conference doubleheader. Salve Regina continues TCCC play on Saturday (April 16) when it takes on Eastern Nazarene at 1:00 pm.
Game One Recap: Endicott 9, Salve Regina 1
Game One Boxscore
Bortolotti scattered three hits over five innings while allowing just one run to improve to 9-3 on the season. Freshmen Jesse Bilafer (Concord, Mass.) and Mattie Brett (Waterford, Conn.) each drove in a pair of runs in the win. Brett and senior Ashley Wright (Merrimack, N.H.) homered in the win.
Kristen Parolise (Hamden, Conn.) accounted for Salve Regina’s only run of the game with a solo home run in the top of the second inning.
Brett smashed a two-run home run in the bottom of the first as the hosts built an early 2-0 lead.
Parolise’s solo shot cut the deficit in the half before the Gulls put three more on the board in the bottom of the second.
Krista Fales (Melrose, Mass.) doubled to left-center with nobody on and one out. Alexandra Moise (North Reading, Mass.) followed with a single through the left side before Bilafer doubled to left field to drive them both in. Freshman Jennie Lacolla (Stoneham, Mass.) scored Bilafer and made it 5-1 with an RBI single to left field.
Bortolotti kept the Seahawks off the board and without a hit over the final three innings.
Wright hit her first home run of the year as part of a two-run third before Endicott tacked on one run in each of the final two innings. Moise’s double plated Colleen Martin (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) in the bottom of the fifth to induce the eight-run rule.
Martin finished with two runs and a pair of walks while Moise and Fales each went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Jen Cruver (North Haven, Conn.) took the loss for Salve Regina, allowing 12 hits and nine runs in 4.1 innings of work.
Game Two Recap: Endicott 12, Salve Regina 9
Game Two Boxscore
Endicott built a 10-2 lead through the first three innings of play and looked poised for a big win, but Salve Regina responded with three runs in the top of the fifth and four in the sixth to pull within two. Wright supplied a late insurance run as the Gulls held on to improve to 21-5 and 15-1 in TCCC play. The Seahawks drop to 9-23 and 7-11 in the conference.
The visitors took advantage of an Endicott error, one of five on the day for the hosts, to put the first run on the board in the top of the first.
The Gulls responded with four runs in the bottom half of the inning. Endicott’s first three batters reached base safely before Brett’s sacrifice fly scored Jocelyn Russo (Middletown, Conn.) from third. Hayley Hovhanessian (Farmington, Conn.) and Wright added RBIs in the inning to build a three-run lead.
Christina Walsh (Putnam Valley, N.Y.) doubled to right-center to drive in Jillian Quintana (Denver, Colo.) in the top of the second and trim the deficit to two.
Ahead 4-2 in the bottom of the third, the Blue and Green erupted for six runs on six hits to build an eight-run lead. Nicole Devlin (Dudley, Mass.) and Alexandra Moise each drove in two runs during the inning.
Devlin’s RBI single in the bottom of the fourth made it 11-2 as the game seemed to be headed for the eight-run rule once again.
Salve Regina did not go down quietly and put together a three-run fifth inning to extend the game. Courtney Fleming (Wethersfield, Conn.) hit a sacrifice fly to close the gap to eight before Sara Nelson’s (Bristol, Conn.) two-out, two-RBI double made it 11-5.
The Seahawks took advantage of four fielding errors in the top of the sixth inning to score four runs and pull within two.
Wright provided a bit of breathing room with a single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth before freshman Nell O’Connor (Harwich, Mass.) shut the door with a 1-2-3 seventh inning.
Lacolla picked up the win to improve to 3-1 on the season while Marissa Simpson (Brimfield, Mass.) was credited with the loss to drop to 5-9.
Endicott, winners of 16 of the last 17 games, is in action tomorrow (April 15) when it plays host to Babson at 3:00 pm for a non-conference doubleheader. Salve Regina continues TCCC play on Saturday (April 16) when it takes on Eastern Nazarene at 1:00 pm.