MCLA's Adams, Quinones lead Softball past Lyndon State in Game One

Recap, photo courtesy of MCLA

North Adams, MA- Kara Adams tossed a complete game one hitter and Alanza Quinones drove in four runs to lead the MCLA Softball to a 14-0 five inning win in game one of a twinbill with Lyndon State at the Zavattaro Athletics Complex.  MCLA is now 3-12 on the season while the Hornets drop to 0-5.

Adams was efficient in the circle for MCLA as she allowed a hit in the first inning, but shut down the Hornets the rest of the way as she improved to 1-2 on the season.  She struck out a pair of Lyndon State batters on the afternoon.

The MCLA offense wasted little time in taking control as they scored five runs in each of the first two innings.  Senior Kaitlyn Berghela started things off with a triple and then scored on an overthrow for an early 1-0 lead.  Quinones then singled to left field scoring Adams and Kayla Baker for an early 3-0 lead.  Fran Belli would add her own two run single to give the Trailblazers a 5-0 lead after an inning of play.

In the second inning, Kaylyn Holliday ripped an RBI double to left field and Quinones followed with her own double making it 7-0.  A sacrifice fly from Ashley Wilson brought home another run and when Julia Parker singled home Wilson, it was 10-0 in favor of MCLA.

The Trailblazers would add a run in the third on Nevada Nelsen's RBI hit and then rounded out the scoring with three runs in the fourth highlighted by Adams' double and Quinones fourth RBI of the day.

Quinones went 2-4 with four RBI's to lead the offense.  Berghela and Baker had two hits.  Adams scored three runs for the Trailblazers as well.

Offense struggles after long layoff as Baseball falls 7-0 at Springfield College

Springfield, MA- Three Springfield College hurlers combined on a one hitter to lead the Pride past the visiting MCLA Trailblazers 7-0 this afternoon at Barry Allen Field.  With the win, the Pride improve to 11-3-2 overall while MCLA comes off an eleven day layoff as they fall to 6-4.

Springfield starter Nick Naples earned the win tossing six no hit innings improving to 2-0 on the season.  He worked around a pair of walks and a hit batter but kept the MCLA offense at bay.  Fletcher Comment worked the next two frames surrendering one hit and working around three hit batters.  Ken Manero worked a perfect ninth to close things out.

The Pride had trouble scoring early as MCLA rotated pitchers in every inning.  Springfield finally got on the board with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings.  A Cam Rivest RBI single off Trailblazer hurler Schuyler Robinson gave the hosts a 1-0 edge in the fourth inning.  A Trailblazer wild pitch in the fifth inning brough home another run to increase the margin to 2-0.

While MCLA couldn't muster any offense, the Pride broke the game open with two runs in the sixth and three more in the seventh.  The key hit in the sixth inning was a Rivest two run single.  In the seventh inning, Mark Joao and Jake Gleason had back to back RBI hits while another came home on a bases loaded walk for the final margin.

MCLA was without a hit until the eighth inning when Logan Rumbolt finally broke up the no hitter with a single to left field.  He was erased trying to stretch it into a double.

Robinson was tagged with the loss for the Trailblazers.  MCLA was outhit 9-1 in the contest.

The Trailblazers are scheduled to open up MASCAC play this weekend when they take on Framingham State University.

MCLA Baseball nipped 1-0 in opener, drops nightcap to Bears 6-2 in MASCAC play

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North Adams, MA - Visiting Bridgewater State received a pair of complete efforts from David Holmes and Sean Surrette as they swept the MCLA Trailblazers by scores of 1-0 and 6-2 this afternoon at Zavattaro athletics complex.  With the wins, the Bears are now 12-15 overall and sit at 4-6 in league play.  MCLA drops to 4-20 on the season and is still in search of a league win at 0-10.

Game One-
Through three innings, Holmes and MCLA starter Liam Nolan were keeping the bats silent as each allowed just one hit through the early going.  Bridgewater would ultimately score the game winner in the fourth inning.  After Nolan got a pop up to begin the inning, BSU's Ryan Feeney would single up the middle.  After another out, Feeney would steal second base to get into scoring position.  Bears DH Keaghan Austin would bloop a ball over the third baseman's head easily allowing Feeney to score making it 1-0 in favor of Bridgewater.

From there, it was all Holmes.  MCLA had a golden chance to tie it in the fifth, but the Bears flashed