Tufts Falls To Endicott College in Non-League Softball Action at Spicer

MEDFORD, MA (April 15, 2026) – The Endicott College softball team put up the most hits and the most runs against Tufts University this season as the Gulls took an 11-4 win in a non-conference game at Spicer Field on Wednesday afternoon.

Tufts falls to 21-7 overall heading into a huge conference weekend at home with doubleheaders against Middlebury College on Saturday and Williams College on Sunday. Endicott, led by six runs batted in from Kylyn McLaren, finished with 14 hits and improved to 13-9 overall.

Endicott scored four times in the top of the first on four hits and two Tufts errors. Abby McClaflin and McLaren had rbi singles in the frame.

The Jumbos were able to cut the lead in half, to 4-2, in the bottom of the inning with one hit and four walks. Both Cat Kawabe and Erin Hersh worked bases-loaded walks to score runs.

Endicott picked up where they left off and scored three more in the top of the second to lead 7-2. McLaren continued her big day at the plate with a two-run double in the inning, while Maddie Beeley singled home a run and scored.

McLaren then belted a three-run home run in the top of the fourth for a 10-2 Endicott advantage.

The Jumbos were just one strike away from losing by the eight-run rule in the bottom of the fifth. However, Hersh blooped a single into right field scoring Kaitlyn Perucci, who had walked. Cat Kawabe, who had also walked, later scored on a wild pitch making it a 10-4 game.

Endicott added one more in the sixth on a two-out double by Catherine Seay and an rbi single from Vania Moniz.

Mia Mitchell (3 for 5, run), McClaflin (3 for 4, 3 runs, rbi), Elyse Saccoccio (2 for 5, 3 runs) and McLaren (3 for 4, run, 6 rbis) led the Endicott bats. Emma Sheehan earned the pitching victory in relief, going 3.1 innings allowing three hits and no runs. Analise Grady had a three-inning save, giving up four hits and two runs.

Haley Leimbach finished with two hits for the Jumbos, while Perucci scored twice. Francesca Colangelo started in the circle for Tufts and did not get out of the first inning to take the loss (0.2 IP, 3 H, 3 R).