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MEDFORD - Sophomore Sky Johnson pitched a five-inning shutout, while freshman RF Lindsay Neumann and senior 1B Nicole Russo (pictured) both drove home two runs as the #13 Tufts University softball team won game two 8-0 to earn a doubleheader split with Emerson College today at Spicer Field.
Freshman pitcher Jessica Gomez threw a three-hit shutout in game one for a 2-0 Lions victory.
Johnson gave up just two hits and struck out 10 while facing just 17 Emerson batters in the second game. She improved to 10-1 on the season and hasn't given up an earned run in her last 16 innings.
Tufts (17-5) scored two in the second inning, two in the third and then broke it open with four in the fourth. In the second, junior DP Sophia DiCocco knocked in a run with a fielder's choice and scored on a single by sophomore 2B Bela Jimenez. A one-out walk to Neumann, a double by junior SS Josie Steinberg a sac fly by junior 3B Rachel Moore and an Emerson error brought home the two runs in the third. Then Neumann had a two-run single and Russo hit a two-run double in the fourth extending the Jumbo advantage to 8-0.
Russo finished 2 for 3 while Neumann and Steinberg both scored twice to lead Tufts offensively in game two.
Gomez no-hit Tufts for 4.2 innings of game one until senior LF Vanessa Venkataraman singled. In the sixth, Tufts loaded the bases with one out and Gomez worked out of it with a strikeout and foul out. With two on and two out in the seventh, she finished her victory by fielding and getting the out on a hard-hit come-backer.
Senior LF Cali Pratt had four hits in game one for Emerson (13-11), including a lead-off double and run scored on sophomore Claire Overton's fielder's choice in the third frame. Senior 1B Lexi Semanchik finished game one with three hits, including a lead-off single in the sixth. She stole second base and later while trying to advance to third on a wild pitch got up and scored after the throw got away.
DiCocco took the game one loss for Tufts allowing nine hits and one earned run in her seven innings.
