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Recap | Box Score
Lesley softball closes out regular season with 8-2 victory over Newbury
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Lesley University softball team
finished up their previously postponed doubleheader against Newbury
College with an 8-2 victory over the Nighthawks in the final game
of the 2010 regular season. Lesley will move on to the New
England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Championships next week as the
#1 seed with a 22-10 (15-1 NECC) record.
Newbury ends their regular season with a 12-22 (5-11 NECC) mark and
will wait until the final results of all conference contests are in
to find out if they will earn the final spot in the playoff
seeding.
Lesley’s leadoff threat Emily Mangiaratti (AMHERST,
Mass./Amherst Regional) went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI
to lead the Lynx offense. Also getting multiple hits on the
day were senior Jodi Fralick (WOBURN, Mass./Woburn) and Ashley
Cunningham (MOUNTAIN TOP, Pa./Crestwood) who each had two
hits.
Leading the Nighthawks at the plate was Brittany Stracher (DUDLEY,
Mass./Shepherd Hill Regional) who went 2-for-4 in the game.
Pitcher Katie O’Hara (ABINGDON, Md./John Carroll) and
Catherine O’Connell (QUINCY, Mass./North Quincy) each had
RBIs in the game.
The Lynx scored five runs in the first two innings to jump out to a
5-0 advantage early on. In the first inning with runners on
second and third with one out, Alyson Durben (STOW, Mass./Nashoba
Regional) dropped a single into right field to score Jessica
Guevara (NANTUCKET, Mass./Nantucket) and Fralick. Durben
later scored on a suicide squeeze bunt by Georgia Saltzman (LYNN,
Mass./Lynn English).
In the next inning, Lesley tacked on two more runs courtesy of an
RBI single by Mangiaratti and when junior Chelsea Quackenbush (EAST
HAMPTON, Conn./East Hampton) advanced home from third when
Mangiaratti stole second base.
The Nighthawks cut the Lynx lead down to three with two runs in the
top of the fourth inning. O’Hara’s single down
the leftfield line scored Ariel Ross (GALES FERRY, Conn./Ledyard)
and later an O’Connell hit to centerfield brought home Olga
Cepeda (BOSTON, Mass./Madison Park).
The score remained 5-2 until the bottom of the sixth inning when
Lesley scored three times to put the game away. In the
inning, Jenna Fralick (WOBURN, Mass./Woburn) hit an RBI single up
the middle to score Rian Powers (PORTLAND, Maine/Deering), Guevara
scored Jenna Fralick on a RBI groundout, and Jodi Fralick brought
home Mangiaratti on an RBI single up the middle.
Lesley hurler’s Cassandra Knox (SEA CLIFF, N.Y./North Shore)
and Guevara combined to give the Lynx the win. Knox went five
innings with six strikeouts, giving up two runs while Guevara came
in to earn her second save in as many days with two innings pitched
with one strikeout.
Newbury’s O’Hara went the distance giving up eight
runs, seven earned, on 10 hits while striking out three.
Lesley and Newbury will now wait to find out the playoff seedings
for the NECC Championships to be played May 4th-May 9th.
Story provided by: Lesley Sports Information
