Teams: Softball: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE SOFTBALL FINAL SCORE
Tufts 7, Trinity (CT) 4

At Hartford, CT
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Game Box Score

First-year Lena Cantone hit a two-run double to spark the offense

HARTFORD -- The Tufts University softball team set a new program winning streak record with its 21st consecutive victory on Sunday in a 7-4 win at Trinity College in NESCAC East Division play. The 21 in a row breaks the previous team mark of 20 straight wins during the 1995 (17) and 1996 (3) seasons.

Sophomore pitcher Izzie Santone (Madison, CT) improved to 10-0 in the circle with her second win of the weekend, though she allowed 10 hits, five walks and four runs in her roughest outing of the season. First-year 1B Lena Cantone (Southington, CT) contributed a critical two-RBI double to help the undefeated and eighth-ranked Jumbos to the record-setting victory. Tufts improves to a perfect 21-0 on the season and 6-0 in the league. Trinity falls to 9-10 overall and 2-4 in the NESCAC East. The Jumbos swept the weekend series from the Bantams, including 8-0 and 8-4 wins on Saturday.

Tufts scored three times in the first inning after a leadoff single and stolen base from recently-crowned career hits leader Sam Kuhles (Somerville, NJ). Senior CF Laura Chapman (Seattle, WA) did the same in the third and scored to give Tufts a 4-1 lead. The Jumbos increased their advantage to 7-2 after a three-run fifth, highlighted by Cantone's double.

The Bantams rallied in the sixth with two runs, loading the bases on three straight singles before a two-RBI single by sophomore Nicole Nardella (Beverly, MA) to put the Bantams within three (7-4). After a walk loaded the bases again, Santone was able to get out the jam, and then she closed it out in the seventh.

Cantone finished 2 for 4 with three RBI and a run to lead Tufts. Junior SS Casey Sullivan (Berlin, CT) had two doubles and senior CF Laura Chapman (Seattle, WA) scored two runs and stole two bases to lead the Jumbos offense. Sophomore Katie Stoltenberg (Montgomery, NJ) had three hits and scored two runs in the game for Trinity, which out-hit Tufts 10-7. Nardella added two hits to the Bantam offense.

Tufts is off all week until hosting Colby College in a three-game NESCAC East weekend series that begins on Frdiay (Apr. 10). Trinity hosts in-state rival Coast Guard on Wednesday.

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