MEDFORD, MA (April 28, 2023) – The eighth-ranked Tufts University softball team finished off its game against Brandeis University today with a 5-2 win at Spicer Field.
The second game of a double-header, play had been halted due to darkness back on April 5 with the Jumbos leading 5-0 through five innings.
Brandeis would make today's continuation interesting. In the top of the seventh, the Judges loaded the bases, scored twice and brought the potential tying run to the plate. However Tufts junior
Sophia DiCocco was called in from the bullpen and recorded the final out on a ground ball back at her.
Back on April 5, Tufts had scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning to build their lead.
Josie Steinberg and
Rachel Moore hit rbi singles and
Haley Leimbach had a two-run base hit. Otherwise, the game was a pitching duel between Tufts first-year
Emilie Doty and Brandeis reliever Alex Cohen until it was suspended.
Today Doty threw a 1-2-3 sixth, then Cohen was able to strand two Jumbos on base in the bottom of the frame following a lead-off single by Moore and a fielder's choice with no out recorded by Leimbach.
In the Brandeis seventh, a walk to Haley Nash and singles by Tristan Boyer and Elle Ehrlich loaded the bases with one out. After the second out was made, Judge RF Lily Medici doubled to right field scoring two. With runners on second and third, DiCocco retired lead-off batter Erin Hunt to end the game.
The win was the 30th of the season for the Jumbos (30-2), while Brandeis dropped to 24-12.
Twenty-three days apart, Moore from Tufts and Medici from Brandeis had one hit on each of the days for two-hit games. The win is the ninth for Doty (6.2 IP, 6 H, 2 R) and the save is DiCocco's second. Brandeis' Rebecca Guerci was the losing pitched after lasting just two-thirds of an inning back on April 5.
The Jumbos head up to Bates College for two conference games tomorrow.
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