Softball wins nightcap in doubleheader split with Gordon

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WENHAM, Mass. — The Roger Williams University Softball team took one of two games in a doubleheader against Gordon College, falling 5-1 before a big 15-4 win.

Emily Kline (Park Ridge, N.J.) allowed only one run in seven innings and homered to help Gordon beat Roger Williams for the first time since 2010 in game one of a doubleheader split. The Fighting Scots kept Roger Williams from getting in a rhythm in a 5-1 win in the first game. The Hawks put up big hitting numbers in the second game as a part of a 15-4 victory to even the season series on Saturday at the Gordon softball field.

Gordon moves to 4-10 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference and 7-20 overall, while Roger Williams moves to 6-7 in the CCC and 10-14 on the year.

Roger Williams left a runner stranded on third in the top of the first, allowing Gordon to take the first lead of the game in the bottom of the second. Kara Pepper (Wyckoff, N.J.) tripled to the right corner before Kline knocked her in with a bloop single over the first baseman's head. Kline and Sarah Ryder (Telford, Pa.) both scored on a miscue in the Hawks' outfield to make it 3-0 Gordon after two innings.

The Hawks scored their sole run of the game when Mikaela Grosso (West Warwick, R.I.) led off the inning with a double and later scored on a passed ball-wild pitch combo on two consecutive pitches.

Gordon took the run right back in the bottom half. Emily Burkhart (Manheim, Pa.) walked to lead off the inning and eventually made it to third due to an infield error and a groundout. Burkhart was thrown out at home on a fielder's choice off the bat of Kline, but Marissa Meenan (Wayne, Pa.) scored on the next play due to a passed ball.

Kline hit a solo shot to begin the sixth and wouldn't surrender another run the rest of the way to improve to 5-6 on the year. The freshman allowed one unearned run on four hits while striking out one batter. Meghan Maliga (Suffield, Conn.) took the loss despite striking out six Gordon hitters. Only two of the five runs allowed were earned.

Game Two

The Hawks found their swing in game two, putting up 15 runs on the board in a five-inning game. Roger Williams put four on the board with only one out in the top of the first inning, tagging Abigail Knowlton (Deer Isle, Maine) for three RBI singles and forcing her out of the game. The Hawks also scored another on a fielding error. Delaney Burns (Hudson, N.H.), Chelsea Boulrisse (Bourne, Mass.) and Sigita Ivaska (Gibsonia, Pa.) came up with the three RBI hits for the Hawks in the frame.

Gordon got a run back in the bottom of the first on a RBI single by Pepper, but Roger Williams scored twice more in the second to increase their lead to five runs. The Hawks had much better success against Kline, a reliever in game two, than they did the first time around.

After Alyssa Unumb (Bedford, Mass.) drove in a run on a sacrifice fly in the second inning, Roger Williams scored five times in the next inning to break things open for good. The Scots committed two more costly errors in the inning to turn singles into multi-base at-bats. Haley Ledbetter (Westerly, R.I.) kicked off the inning with a double and it was all downhill from there for the Hawks. Taylor Messier (Cranston, R.I.), Boulrisse and Burns drove in four of the five runs in the inning to go up by nine runs.

Pepper doubled in Meenan in the third for Gordon's third run and later scored on a throwing error at first to cut the Hawks' lead to four runs. Messier's sacrifice fly in the fourth put Gordon in mercy territory and RBI knocks form Ledbetter and the aforementioned Messier finished things off for the Hawks in the fifth.

Tori Milano (Eastchester, N.Y.) earned her first win of the season in the circle while allowing only one earned run out of four scored. Knowlton took the loss for Gordon despite pitching only one-third of an inning.

Messier and Burns combined to go 5-for-5 with seven RBI in the game.

Gordon finishes out its 12-game home stand on Monday when non-conference Maine-Presque Isle comes to town for a 3 p.m. start. Roger Williams finished out its season with three consecutive home doubleheaders beginning with Nichols tomorrow at noon.

- Release courtesy of the Gordon College Sports Information Department

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Players Mentioned

#5 Chelsea Boulrisse: OF; 5' 2"; Junior; L/R

#15 Delaney Burns: INF; 5' 8"; Junior; R/R

#10 Mikaela Grosso: C; 5' 8"; Sophomore; R/R

#17 Sigita Ivaska: INF; 5' 7"; Sophomore; R/R

#11 Meghan Maliga: P; 5' 7"; Junior; R/R

#2 Taylor Messier: OF; 5' 5"; Junior; L/R

#20 Tori Milano: P; 5' 3"; Junior; R/R

#23 Haley Ledbetter: INF; 5' 7"; Freshman; L/R

Players Mentioned

#5 Chelsea Boulrisse
: 5' 2"; Junior; L/R
: OF

#15 Delaney Burns
: 5' 8"; Junior; R/R
: INF

#10 Mikaela Grosso
: 5' 8"; Sophomore; R/R
: C

#17 Sigita Ivaska
: 5' 7"; Sophomore; R/R
: INF

#11 Meghan Maliga
: 5' 7"; Junior; R/R
: P

#2 Taylor Messier
: 5' 5"; Junior; L/R
: OF

#20 Tori Milano
: 5' 3"; Junior; R/R
: P

#23 Haley Ledbetter
: 5' 7"; Freshman; L/R
: INF