Teams: Softball: Schedule & Results

TUFTS SOFTBALL TAKES TWO NESCAC EAST GAMES FROM COLBY

COLLEGE SOFTBALL FINAL SCORES
Game 1 -- Tufts 7, Colby 1
Game 2 -- Tufts 11, Colby 0

At Waterville, ME
Friday, April 11, 2008

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

Junior Lauren Gelmetti improved to 7-1 with the game-one victory

WATERVILLE, Me. -- Sophomore 1B Christy Tinker (Woodbridge, CT) had a home run in each game as the 17th-ranked Tufts University softball team took 7-1 and 11-0 victories over Colby College in New England Small College Athletic Conference East Division play Friday.

Tinker had a two-run homer in the fourth inning of the first game to help the Jumbos pull away for good. She also had a leadoff blast in the fourth inning of the nightcap. Junior 3B Samantha Kuhles (Somerville, NJ) had three hits and two runs in the first game, while senior 2B Danielle Lopez (Danvers, MA) and Tinker both had two hits, two runs, and two RBI.

Junior pitcher Lauren Gelmetti (Westfield, NJ) pitched six innings in the opener for her seventh victory of the season. Colby (6-9, 0-5 NESCAC East) stayed in the game in the first three innings of the first contest. Christine Gillespie (North Andover, MA) singled and then scored on an RBI double by Alex Essman (Littleton, MA) in the first inning. Annie Wilson (San Juan Capistrano, CA) had the other hit in the game for the Mules.

Tufts (17-5, 5-0 NESCAC East) scored 10 runs in the first three innings of the five-inning second game. Sophomore SS Casey Sullivan (Berlin, CT) homered, doubled, scored twice, and had three RBI for the winners. Tinker, junior Cara Hovhanessian (Farmington, CT), and junior Laura Chapman (Seattle, WA) all had two hits. Kuhles was on base all four at-bats and scored three runs.

Three Tufts pitchers - first-year Izzie Santone (Madison, CT), senior Heather Kleinberger (New City, NY) and sophomore Erin Gallagher (Brooklyn, NY) - combined on the shutout.

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