Box Score
CLERMONT, FL – First-year pitcher Allyson Fournier (South Windsor, CT) blanked Wisconsin-Eau Clair (UWEC), the #15 team in the country, on three hits with 11 strikeouts as the Tufts softball team split a pair of games at the National Training Center on Sunday. The Jumbos defeated UWEC 1-0 after losing 9-3 to Kean earlier in the day.
Fournier, now 2-0 with a 0.64 earned run average, allowed a hit to the first batter she faced, UWEC's Jess Freagon. The Blugoldss next hit didn't come until after two outs in the sixth inning. Eau Clair did have five runners in scoring position throughout the course of the game, but Fournier kept them from scoring. She stranded the tying run on third base to end the game.
Similarly, UWEC's Emma Wishau was dominating the Jumbo offense, allowing five hits and no walks while striking out six over seven innings. However, Tufts was able to manufacture the game's only run in the top of the seventh. A pair of miscues by the Blugolds helped the cause. Tufts first-year 3B Kris Parr (Austin, TX) singled and took second on an error. The Blugolds cut a run down at the plate, but Tufts first-year LF Gracie Marshall (Palo Alto, CA) brought home the eventual winning run with a ground out.
Earlier in the day, Kean built a 8-0 lead on the Jumbos. Sandra Binkiewicz singled and scored for the Cougars in a two-run second and then tripled home a run and scored in a three-run third. They added three more runs in the top of the fifth including an rbi double by Alicia Banz.
The Jumbos got on the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the fifth. First-year RF Bri Keenan (Portsmouth, NH) singled with one out and scored on a double by sophomore Jo Clair (Glastonbury, CT). Senior 1B Lena Cantone (Southington, CT) singled and enventually scored on a wild pitch. Back-to-back doubles by Clair and junior 2B Emily Beinecke (Concord, MA0 plated the other Tufts run in the seventh.
Binkiewicz was 3 for 4 with two runs and an rbi for Kean, while Maria Scopellito had two hits and a run at the top of the order. Katie Schuh scored a pair of runs and Banz finished 2 for 3. Courtney Yard went the distance in the circle, giving up 11 hits and three runs.
Cantone's three hits led the Jumbos, while Clair, Beinecke and Parr each had a pair. Clair had both a run scored and an rbi.
The Jumbos face third-ranked Eastern Connecticut and St. Catherline on Monday.
Kean boxscore
Wisconsin-Eau Clair boxscore
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