COLLEGE
SOFTBALL FINAL SCORE
NESCAC Championship 1st Round
Wesleyan 13, Tufts 3 (5 inn.)
At Williamstown, MA
Friday, May 7, 2010
Game
Box Score
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First year Emily
Beinecke had a two-run double in the first inning for Tufts
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Senior Meaghan Dendy went 4 for 4 Friday while
throwing a six-hiiter as Wesleyan University mercy-ruled Tufts
University, 13-3, in five innings in the second game of the 2010
NESCAC Tournament.
The Cardinals improved to 21-15-1 on the season and will face
Bowdoin in a winner's bracket contest Saturday at noon. The Jumbos
fell to 22-12 and will face tournament host Williams in an
elimination game Saturday morning at 10.
Friday, the Cardinals plated six runs in the top of the first
and six more in the third to build a 12-3 advantage. Dendy led off
the game with a single, moved to second on a passed ball and scored
on an RBI-single from Tori Redding, who was 2 for 4 with three RBI
in the win. Taylor Zavadsky added an RBI-single later in the
inning, and Alexis Kral put the capper on the big first frame with
a three-run blast to left-center field. Kral would finish 3 for 4
with four RBI for the Cardinals.
Tufts would answer back in its half of the first, scoring three
times to make it a game again at 6-3. First year 2B Emily
Beinecke (Concord, MA) lined a two-run double into the
right-center field gap, and scored on senior RF Stefanie
Tong's (Burlingame, CA) single to right-center moments
later.
But Dendy would steady herself in the circle and allow just two
hits and no runs over the final four innings to improve to 8-7 on
the season.
Her teammates gave her much breathing room by putting together a
six-run third inning that made it 12-3. Tufts committed four errors
in the frame while the Cards had three hits. Kral had an RBI-single
to left, Dendy looped an RBI-single to center, and Redding had a
two-run single to center in the uprising.
Wesleyan had 15 hits in the victory. Zavadsky was 3 for 4 with
two RBI for the winners. Dendy's final line had her giving up six
hits while walking no one and striking out nine over five
innings.
Tufts senior SS Casey
Sullivan (Berlin, CT) went 2 for 3 for Tufts. First
year Rebecca DiBiase (Wellesley, MA) took the
loss, allowing nine hits and 12 runs, nine earned, over two-plus
innings. She walked two and did not strike out a batter.
Game release courtesy of Williams College.
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