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| Recap, photo courtesy of MIT |
- Scores:
Game One - MIT 3, No. 19 Babson College 0
Game Two - No. 19 Babson 3, MIT 1
- Records: MIT (9-4-1, 3-1 NEWMAC); No. 19 Babson College (10-5, 1-1 NEWMAC)
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Briggs Field)
- The Lead: The MIT softball team earned a doubleheader split with No. 19 Babson College on Friday afternoon in Cambridge. The Engineers won game one, 3-0, before the Beavers came back to win game two, 3-1. Today's doubleheader was moved from Babson Park to Cambridge due to poor field conditions and Babson served as the home team in both games.
HOW IT HAPPENED – GAME ONE:
- MIT got on the scoreboard in the top of the first inning thanks to an RBI single by sophomore Sarah
Von Ahn (West Linn, Ore.). With one out in the frame, sophomore Devon Goetz (Rockville, Md.) earned a walk and senior Amanda Lee (Saratoga, Calif.) dropped a bunt single to the pitcher. Von Ahn's hit was lined through the right side and plated Goetz for the 1-0 lead. Lee attempted to score but she was thrown out at the plate from the right fielder.
- MIT starter Ravenne Nasser (Methuen, Mass.) held Babson hitless through three innings before Samantha Smith lined the ball to center for the Beavers. Nasser proceeded to get the next three batters out in order to keep Babson off the board.
- In the top of the seventh, MIT got two insurance runs as Lee doubled down the left field line which brought home Erika Anderson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jasmin Joseph (Woodland Hills, Calif.). Her hit was ruled a double after the umpires debated whether or not the ball struck the foul pole above or below the fence line. Anderson and Joseph reached via singles as Anderson's ball went to center and Joseph bunted the ball for her hit.
- Nasser returned to the circle for the bottom of the seventh and despite allowing a two-out double to Tori Roche, got Jamie Hoffman to line out to secure the game one shutout win, 3-0.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Nasser improved to 5-2 for MIT as she tossed her sixth complete game this spring. The junior scattered four hits, allowed one walk and struck out five to pick up the win. Ali Reilly took her first loss of the season for Babson and now is 6-1. Over seven innings, Reilly allowed seven hits, three earned runs, five walks and struck out five.
- Lee went 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI for MIT, while Von Ahn added two hits for her own as she has registered at least one hit in 13 of 14 games played this year. It also marked the ninth time Von Ahn has tallied more than one hit in a single game.
HOW IT HAPPENED - GAME TWO:
- As they did in game one, the Engineers scored their first run in the top of the opening inning. Goetz lined a one out double to left center and Lee notched an infield single which moved Goetz to third. Lee tried to draw a throw from the catcher so that Goetz could break for the plate and she did just that as MIT went up 1-0 after the first frame.
- Babson got all of the offense it would need in the bottom of the third as Alex Corrigan plated Ashley Tango on an RBI single to right and Kayla Schinik brought home Brooke Stock on an single up the middle. Nicole Civello, who pinch ran for Corrigan, attempted to score on a fly ball to right field, but Katherine Shade (Glencoe, Ill.) threw a strike to Michelle Wist (Cypress, Texas) in the air and Wist applied the tag to hold the Beavers to two runs.
- MIT was able to get runners on base in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, but could not capitalize on its chances as Stock got out of every jam she was in.
- The Beavers added an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth as Josephine Mares tripled home Corrigan, but Mares herself was thrown out at the plate as she tried to round the bases for an inside the park home run. Stock got three straight outs in the top of the seventh to preserve the split for Babson.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
- Stock picked up the win (4-3) as she allowed just one earned run, five hits and struck out four for the Beavers, while MIT freshman Colleen Campbell (Snoqualmie, Wash.) shouldered the loss (3-1) by giving up two earned runs, two hits and two walks over two innings of work. Junior Amber VanHemel (Coconut Creek, Fla.) pitched the final four innings for MIT and was strong in relief as she kept the Engineers in the game by allowing one earned run, five hits and two walks to go along with two strikeouts.
- The five MIT hits came from five different student-athletes including Goetz, Lee, Von Ahn, Wist and Shade.
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