Teams: Softball: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE SOFTBALL FINAL SCORES
Tufts 8, Colby 0  (5 inn.)
Tufts 8, Colby 0  (5 inn.)

At Medford, MA
Friday, April 10, 2009

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

First-year Mira Lieman-Sifry knocked in five runs in the second game

MEDFORD -- The 10th ranked Tufts University softball team scored a pair of 8-0 victories in five innings against NESCAC East Division opponent Colby College on Friday afternoon at Spicer Field. Tufts is now 23-0 overall and 8-0 in divisional play. Colby drops to 11-6 and 0-5.

Sophomore pitcher Izzie Santone (Madison, CT) fired a five-inning one-hitter in the first game. She was perfect for three innings before Colby junior SS Christine Gillespie (North Andover, MA) singled to lead off the fourth. Gillespie was sacrificed to second, but she was hit by a batted ball on the next play for the second out. Santone retired the next four Mules batters for her 11th win of the season against no losses. She struck out two and did not walk a batter.

Tufts had scored three times with the help of two Colby errors in the first inning. Junior SS Casey Sullivan (Berlin, CT) also had an RBI single. A solo home run by senior 3B Sam Kuhles (Somerville, NJ) made the Tufts lead 4-0 in the second inning. Sullivan hit her second RBI single of the game in the third and it was 5-0. The Jumbos finished it in the fifth with three unearned runs. The game-ending eighth run came in on a line single to left by first-year 1B Lena Cantone (Southington, CT).

Sullivan and Cantone both finished 2 for 3 in the game for Tufts, who had seven hits. Senior RF Maya Ripecky (Chicago, IL) scored three runs for the Jumbos. Of the eight runs allowed by Colby senior pitcher Randi Arsenault (South Paris, ME), only two were earned as the Mules made four errors.

In game two, Tufts first-year 3B Mira Lieman-Sifry (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) had five RBI with a three-run home run in the fourth inning and a game-ending two-run double in the fifth. She finished 2 for 3 and also scored a run. Her home run was the key to a five-run third inning that gave Tufts a 6-0 lead. They had scored an unearned run in the first on an RBI single by Ripecky.

Colby left seven runners on base against Tufts senior starter Lauren Gelmetti (Westfield, NJ), including three who reached third. Gillespie was on base three times for the Mules, reaching on an error, walking and hitting a single. Mules starter Alyssa Crowell (Gilford, NH) allowed seven hits and six earned runs in 4-1 innings.

In improving to 10-0, Gelmetti allowed four hits and walked three while striking out five in five innings. Sullivan finished 2 for 3 with two runs scored in game two for the Jumbos. Ripecky was 2 for 2 with a run and an RBI.

Due to rain in the Medford area on Saturday, the teams will play a single game at Colby College on Saturday at 2:00 pm to complete their NESCAC East Division series.

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