Softball Sweeps Bowdoin on Seniors Day at Spicer Field

MEDFORD, MA (May 6, 2023) - Tufts had 20 hits in the first game, then sophomore Emilie Doty threw a three-hit shutout in the second game as the #8 Jumbo softball team swept a conference double-header over Bowdoin College at home today. The scores were 10-2 in six innings and 5-0.

Tufts finishes its NESCAC season at 17-1 and improves to 35-3 overall. Head coach Lauren Ebstein's Jumbos will host the NESCAC Softball Championship at Spicer Field next weekend (May 12-14). Bowdoin finished its regular-season at 19-19 overall and 9-9 in the league.

Sophomore pitcher Sky Johnson improved to 11-0 in the circle in game one. Kaitlyn Perucci at 4 for 4 with two runs and two rbis led Tufts' 20-hit attack. Josie Steinberg went 3 for 4 with two runs and two rbi, while Bela Jimenez was 3 for 5 with two rbi and a run. Nicole Russo and Emma Jacobson both had three hits.

Tufts started its offensive attack in the bottom of the first with a double by Jimenz, an rbi triple from Steinberg and then a rbi double from Perucci in the first three at-bats. That led to three runs on five hits overall in the inning.

The Jumbos added two runs in the third, started by singles from Russo and Jacobson. After Kat Yuzefpolsky bunted both over a base, Jimenez then delivered both home with a two-run single for a 5-0 Tufts lead. RBI singles by Moore, Leimbach and Yuzefposky made it 8-0 Jumbos after four.

Bowdoin was down to its last out before losing by the eight-run rule in the top of the fifth. However, with Lilly Armstrong and Angelina Mayers on with walks, Katryna Dukehart doubled just over the reach of Adelman in right-center scoring both making it 8-2.

However the Jumbos would get one in the fifth when Perucci doubled home Steinberg after she singled. Then Steinberg would produce the walk-off win in the bottom of the sixth with a hard-hit single to right scoring Jacobson (single) for the 10-2 final.

Johnson went five innings giving up five hits and two runs for the victory before Sophia DiCocco finished up in the sixth.

Dukehart had two hits and the two ribs for the Polar Bears. Anna Halliday started and lasted just one inning (five hits, three runs) to get the loss.

Tufts scored five times with the help of three Bowdoin errors in the bottom of the first inning in game two. Russo had a two-run single.

Doty struck out the side in the first and would retire the first 11 Polar Bears before Mayers singled in the fourth. Sydney Lang in the fifth and Dukehart in the seventh had doubles for Bowdoin's other two hits. Doty improved to 10-1 and struck out 12 in her complete game.

Bowdoin starter Maddie Current settled down nicely after the tough first inning. She went six allowing six hits and three earned runs in the loss.

Jimenez was 2 for 3 for the Jumbos in game two.

Prior to the double-header, the Jumbos saluted Yuzefpolsky, Jacobson, Rachel Moore, Steinberg, and Adelman on Seniors Day.