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March 20, 2008
Box Score (vs. Augsburg) | Box Score (vs. UW-La Crosse)
TUCSON, Ariz. - The Babson softball team split its two games in Tucson on Thursday, as the Beavers topped Augsburg, 7-2, and then fell to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 7-6, in eight innings. Babson's first contest featured a brilliant pitching performance from senior Jess Byrn, who allowed no earned runs on five hits while striking out 13 in a complete game win. She also added two hits and a run scored in two at-bats at the plate. Juniors Courtney Thurston, Kaitlyn Clark, and Kim D'Agostino each joined Byrn with two hits in game one, with Thurston scoring twice and driving in two. Trailing 5-1 after five innings against UW-La Crosse, the Beavers scored two runs in the top of the sixth as Byrn singled in a run and sophomore Michelle Bolduc later scored on a wild pitch. La Crosse then scored again to go up 6-3, but Babson rallied with three runs in the top of the seventh to tie the contest at 6-6. Senior captain Jess Cohen drove in the first run with a single to center, and the fifth and sixth Beavers runs came home on a La Crosse throwing error. After first-year pitcher Caroline Barr pitched around a pair of hits in the bottom of the seventh, Babson stranded the potential go-ahead run at third in the top of the eighth. That set up the game-winning hit by La Crosse senior Liz Bradley in the bottom of the inning, as she doubled in her third run of the game to end the contest.
Cohen went 1-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI to pace the Beavers' offense, while Barr went the distance on the mound, giving up four earned runs and striking out three in 7 1/3 innings. |
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