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MEDFORD - Senior catcher Jo Clair drove home seven runs in the two games, and pitchers Allyson Fournier and Lauren Giglio both hurled shutouts as the Tufts softball team swept a double-header against Trinity College, 9-0 and 5-0, in NESCAC East action Saturday at Spicer Field.
Fourth-ranked Tufts has now won 28 straight NESCAC East games, improving to 3-0 in the division and 19-3 overall this spring. The Jumbos swept the weekend series from the Bantams, including a 7-1 final on Friday. Trinity is now 5-16 overall and 3-5 in the NESCAC East.
Trinity did not put a ball into the outfield against Fournier in game one. Their only hit came in the top of the second with one out when sophomore RF Erica Quinones hit an infield single to third. Otherwise, Fournier struck out four and did not walk a batter while improving to 9-0 and lowering her earned run average to 0.45. The shutout was her fifth this spring.
The Jumbos took a 3-0 lead in the first inning with rbi singles by Clair, Chrissie Massrey and Summer Horowitz. Clair, Massrey and Giglio were joined by Kayla Holland and Sara Hedtler in a Seniors Day ceremony prior to the start of game one.
The Jumbos extended their lead to 5-0 in the second as Christina Raso hit an rbi single to right and Clair drove home the second of her six rbis in the game with a sac fly.
In the fourth, Tufts had consecutive singles by Michelle Cooprider, Raso and Hedtler before Clair launched a grand slam that put the hosts up 9-0. They eventually won the game in five innings by the eight-run mercy rule.
The Jumbos had eight hits overall in game one, including two each by Raso and Clair. Raso and Cooprider both scored twice.
First year Lily Jewell took the pitching loss for Trinity, while classmate Meghan Logan pitched a scoreless inning of relief.
Trinity had six base runners against Giglio in game two, but she kept them from scoring for her fourth shutout of 2014. She left the bases loaded in the second with a strikeout to end the Bantams' best threat of the day following singles by first-year LF Sarah Reynolds and senior DP Olivia Berry.
Clair picked up where she left off, homering in the bottom of the first for her 10th of the season and a 1-0 Tufts lead. Junior 2B Gracie Marshall would join Clair in homering twice on the day. She hit solo shots in the fourth and fifth innings.
Hedtler singled home a run in the fourth, while first-year Maggie Hoffman doubled and scored on a single by Cooprider to round out the scoring in the sixth.
Giglio went the distance allowing three hits with seven strikeouts and two walks for her eighth win. Hannah King took the loss for Trinity, giving up nine hits and five runs (four earned) with three strikeouts and a walk in six innings.
Marshall led the Jumbos at the plate in game two at 2 for 3 with the two runs and two rbis. Cooprider finished 2 for 3 with an rbi and Hedtler went 2 for 4 with an rbi.
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