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Teams: Softball: Schedule & Results
JUMBOS STAMPEDE HUSSSON 17-1 IN FIRST GAME OF NCAA TOURNAMENT
COLLEGE SOFTBALL FINAL SCORE
NCAA Tournament Regional
Tufts 17, Husson 1 (5 inn.)
Game Box Score
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Danielle Lopez was 3 for 4 with four RBI and
two runs in the NCAA opening win
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BEVERLY -- Tufts University wasted no time in their pursuit of an NCAA Division III Regional Softball Championship as the Jumbos defeated
Husson University, 17-1, in game one of the Regional Championships held
on the campus of Endicott College on Thursday morning. Tufts (39-1) used
a 10-run third inning to take down the Eagles (26-15) and move onto the
winner's portion of the bracket.
Tufts jumped out to an early lead in the second as the Jumbos plated
five runs in the frame. Tufts' Roni Herbst (Montclair, NJ),
Casey Sullivan (Berlin, CT), Samantha Kuhles (Somerville, NJ)
and Danielle Lopez (Danvers, MA) each drove in runs during the
inning.
Senior pitcher Lauren Gelmetti (Westfield, NJ) went through
the first three innings without allowing a base-runner while being
staked to a 5-0 lead. The Jumbos extended their lead in the bottom of
the inning by scoring 10 runs while the first eight batters reached base
and inflated the lead to 15-0 by the end of the third inning.
Husson finally got on the board in the top of the fourth when Megan
Bradstreet (Warren, ME) singled to right centerfield, scoring Dorothy
Cameron (South Plainfield, NJ) who had doubled to lead off the inning.
The Eagles added one more hit in the inning, but could do no more damage
as Gelmetti struck out the final two batters of the inning.
The Jumbos would add a pair in the bottom of the fourth on a
Christy Tinker (Woodbridge, CT) home run to extend their lead to
17-1 and closed out the first game of the tournament with a win.
Gelmetti improves to 18-0 this season by pitching four innings and
giving up one run, on two hits, while striking out eight. The first
three batters in the Jumbos' offense did a majority of the damage as
Laura Chapman (Seattle, WA), Kuhles, and Lopez combined to go 9 for
12 with eight RBI between them.
Nicole Sargent (Sullivan, ME) suffered the setback for the Eagles as
she went two innings and gave up seven runs, all earned, on nine hits.
Cameron, Bradstreet, and Rachel Volcechovski (Jefferson, NJ) had the
three hits for the Eagles.
No.1-seeded Tufts will move on to face Emerson College, the #6 seed
who defeated #3 Endicott 5-1 on Thursday, in the winner's bracket on Friday at 2:00 pm. Husson will
move on to face the loser of that contest on Friday at 10:00 am.
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