Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LEWISTON, Maine -- The 2024 softball season came to a close as Bates College suffered a Saturday sweep vs. Trinity College on Lafayette Street Field.

Needing to win both games vs. the Bantams (combined with Williams College's two-game sweep of Wesleyan) to make the NESCAC playoffs, the Bobcats would come up short in its postseason bid.

GAME ONE

Trailing 3-1 heading into the top of the seventh, Trinity (22-14, 10-7 NESCAC) rallied for three runs on four hits in the frame to steal a 5-4, game one victory over Bates.

With the Bantams owning a 1-0 lead after a first-inning sacrifice fly off the bat of CF Abigail Alper, the Bobcats recorded a three-spot of its own in the home half of the third to go up by a pair (3-1). A bases-loaded walk from LF Sarah Cooke, along with ribbie singles by 3B Emma Yen and 2B Elizabeth Pellini, accounted for the home team tallies.

Trinity 1B Kennedy Rogers (3-for-3, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI) crunched a solo shot to center in the fourth to inch the Bantams to within one. The moment would be a sneak peek of what was to come in the seventh at which point the senior scorched her second long ball of the game, a lead-off liner over the left-field wall, to tie the contest at 3-all.

3B Emily Goddard followed with an RBI single later in the frame, followed by another sac fly by the Trinity offense, to stun the Bobcats and go up by two (5-3).  

Looking to salvage their season, Yen and CF Zariya Anderson opened the home half of the seventh with back-to-back singles. After a Bobcat foul-out, Bates' top hitter, Kennedy Jones, stepped up and brought around Yen from second with a single to deep center.

Down by one, RF Sienna Pietrasiewicz hit a smash to SS in what turned into a game-ending 6-3-2 double play as Anderson was pegged at the plate trying to score on the play.

Tiffany Stowers (13-2) earned the complete-game win for the Bantams, despite yielding 10 hits, three walks, and striking out none. Delaney Rankin (6-10) suffered the loss in her final start of the season for the Bobcats.

Yen (3-for-3, 2B) recorded her third three-hit performance over the last seven games for the garnet and white. The sophomore finishes the year with a.386 batting average.

GAME TWO

Two runs in the fourth, followed by a five-spot in the seventh, would provide Trinity plenty of cushion as the road team cruised to the 7-0 shutout of the Bobcats (8-23, 5-13 NESCAC) in the nightcap. 

Kaysen Shikar (6-4) scattered four hits and a pair of walks, while striking out seven, en route to the complete-game blanking of Bates. Isabella Albro (2-11) took the defeat as the first-year hurler closes out her maiden collegiate campaign.