HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Bates softball team couldn't get the bats going Saturday in a doubleheader at Trinity, falling 8-1 in game one and 7-1 in game two.
The Bobcats (3-7, 0-2 NESCAC) take on the Bantams (7-6, 2-0 NESCAC) again Sunday in a single game at 10am.Â
Game One: Trinity 8, Bates 1
Trinity took a 3-0 lead after one inning of the first game on two walks, an error and an RBI single by Alex Chambers.Â
Bates scored an unearned run in the third frame, cutting the deficit to two. With one out, senior
Kennedy Ishii (Honolulu, Hawaii) reached on an error and advanced to second on a ground out. Then junior
Lindsey Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.) singled home Ishii, continuing her hot start to the season.
But Trinity tacked on four more runs in the fourth inning two on a double by Gianna Tito and another on a double by Alyssa Gazivoda. Taylor Mikolajczak added an RBI single in the fifth inning. Chambers finished 2-3 with a double and a walk and Maura Keary was 2-4 with two runs.
Ishii went 3-4 with a stolen base for Bates. In the circle, Trinity's Jordan Stephan went the distance and allowed eight hits and one walk with three strikeouts.
Game Two: Trinity 7, Bates 1
In game two, Trinity's Tiffany Stowers tossed a three-hitter with one walk and three K's, yielding just a single run. Gazivoda scored the game's first run on a double steal and the Bantams broke it open with four more in the fifth frame. Keary tripled in a run and scored on a wild pitch, while Gazivoda added a two-out, two-run single in the inning. Trinity scored twice more in the sixth with Russell driving Keary home on a two-out hit for the second run of the inning.
The Bobcats got their lone run in the seventh inning. Sophomore
Rachel Liazos (Westborough, Mass.) walked to start the frame. Kim followed with a single but a fielder's choice retired the runner at third. A wild pitch moved runners to second and third and first-year
Sarah Cooke (Wenham, Mass.) drove in Kim with a sacrifice fly.
Kim has now hit safely in all eight games she's played in this season for the Bobcats.