Softball
 

April 5, 2008

Trinity Softball Sweeps SCAC Doubleheader

Trinity (11-15, 6-0) survived a five-run seventh inning by Colorado College in game one, hanging on for the 6-5 win.  In game two, Trinity lost a 4-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth when Colorado College scored another five-run inning to take its first lead of the day.  Trinity responded with its own five-run inning to regain the lead for good.

Jamie Williams and Michelle Gossein both tied Trinity single game records in the second game of the doubleheader, helping lead the team to victory.

Williams hit a pair of triples in the second game, becoming just the fourth player in school history to do so.  Williams also extended her hitting streak to 25 consecutive games with hits in both games. 

She went 2-3 with three runs scored in the second game, as well as going 2-4 with two runs in the opener.  The two triples also gives Williams the school's career record.  Williams now has 11 triples in her career, passing Sheila Deane's 10 triples from 1999-2001.

Gossein tied her own record in today's second game, hitting a pair of home runs for the Tigers.  She also hit two home runs against Piedmont earlier this season.  Gossein was 2-4 with a run and two RBI in the first game, then was 4-4 with two runs and a team season-high five RBI in her record-setting game. 

The home runs also give Gossein a couple of other Trinity records as well.  Gossein breaks the school's single season home run record with her sixth of the year, and also tied the school's career home run mark with her eighth total with the Tigers.

Kate Wright improved to 6-0 with a complete-game victory in game one, also going 2-4 with a run scored at the plate.  She gave up five runs on 10 hits, though she pitched six shutout innings to start the game. 

In addition to Williams, Gossein, and Wright, Chrstina Carni and Lee Smith also had two hits each, while Karen Fisher went 1-3 with a team-best three RBI in the first game.  Fisher and Smith both went 2-4 in the second game, as did Teresa Greppi.  Greppi also had a run and one RBI for Trinity.

Trinity started the opener with three quick runs to go ahead 3-0, then added three more extremely important runs in the seventh.  Colorado College scored five times in the seventh, and had runners on first and third with two outs.  Wright pitched her way out of it, though, and Trinity escaped with the win.

In the second game, it was more of the same for Trinity, as Gossein's first of two homers highlighted a three-run first.  Colorado College then scored twice to cut it to a one-run game in the bottom of the inning.  Trinity then went up 4-2 with a run in the fifth, but Colorado College answered with its second five-run inning of the day. 

In the top of the sixth, Gossein homered again to lead a five-run Trinity comeback that sealed the win in game two.  Helen Thompson went 4.2 innings, giving up seven runs total - though only four were earned.  Karen Fisher (2-5) gave up just two hits in 2.1 shutout innings to finish the game and earn the win.

Trinity and Colorado College will finish off the SCAC weekend series with a Sunday afternoon doubleheader.  Trinity will attempt to stay unbeaten atop the SCAC West Division standings.