Box Score
CLERMONT, Fla. – After a tight 3-2 win over Wellesley College earlier on Saturday, the Tufts University softball team opened the floodgates with 20 hits in a 19-1, five-inning victory over Kalamazoo College later in the day.
The Jumbos will head into their final game of the spring break trip on Sunday against Wisconsin-Whitewater with an 11-3 record. Kalamazoo dropped to 5-6.
Freshman SS Mia Steinberg led the barrage going 3 for 4 with three rbis and three runs scored. She had two hits, two rbis and two runs scored as the Jumbos tallied nine times in the third inning to take a 13-0 lead.
Sophomore Maggie Lebinski's batting line was also full of crooked numbers at 3 for 5 with three rbis and two runs. All three of her rbis came in the third with a two-run double and then a run-scoring single.
Senior 2B Samantha Siciliano (3 for 5, 3 runs, rbi) and junior DH Kristen Caporelli (2 for 3, 3 rbis, 2 runs) were also party leaders for the Jumbos. Freshman Emma Della Volpe went 2 for 4 with two runs and an rbi.
Both senior catcher Raven Fournier and sophomore LF Emily Serata drove home two runs and scored twice. Fournier's two-run single helped get the Jumbos started in the first inning, when they scored three times. Pinch hitters Kristina Haghdan, Sofia Molina and Christian Cain all had hits to lead a six-run fourth inning that gave Tufts a 19-0 advantage.
On the other side, freshman pitcher Kristi Van Meter retired nine of the 10 batters she faced and departed after three innings. She improved to 5-1 and lowered her era to a 0.76 mark. Tufts had a no-hitter until Kalamazoo's Izzy Kirck doubled to lead off the fourth. The Hornets scored their lone run off reliever Cassie Cancemi in the fifth on a lead-off single by Keelin McManus and an rbi double off the bat of Sammi Luzadre.
Kalamazoo is off on Sunday before playing Williams and D'Youville on Monday in Florida.
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