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Winner Hope HOPE 7-5
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Lasell LASELL 1-5
Winner
Hope HOPE
7-5
10
Final
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Lasell LASELL
1-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Hope HOPE 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 10 12 5
Lasell LASELL 0 0 0 0 6 0 3 9 10 3

W: Adams, Alaina (2-0) L: S. Raccio (1-1)

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Springfield SPRINGFI 5-1
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Winner Hope HOPE 8-5
Springfield SPRINGFI
5-1
5
Final
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Hope HOPE
8-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Springfield SPRINGFI 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 5 13 1
Hope HOPE 1 0 1 1 3 0 X 6 7 1

W: Vermeesch, Samantha (3-1) L: A. DeRosa (2-1) S: Mellec, Hailey (1)

Game Recap: Softball | | Alan Babbitt

Softball Edges Lasell and Springfield for One-Run Victories

The Hope College softball team now owns a six-game winning streak after winning a pair of one-run games against teams from Massachusetts on Tuesday.

The Flying Dutch held on in Clermont, Florida, for a 10-9 victory against Lasell University and a 6-5 victory against Springfield College.

Hope heads into a scheduled off day of Wednesday, March 13, with an 8-5 overall record. The Flying Dutch's next scheduled games are Thursday, March 14, in Clermont at 9 a.m. against St. Norbert College (Wis.) and 1:45 p.m. against Catholic University (D.C.).

Against Lasell, the Flying Dutch scored the first 10 runs of the game but needed to strand the tying run at third base and the winning run at second base in the bottom of the seventh.

Hope committed two errors and gave up three hits during a six-run Lasell fifth that cut the Flying Dutch's lead to four runs. Lasell's Eryn Sheeley capped the rally with a grand slam.

In the seventh, three Hope errors and two Lasell hits produced three runs and brought the winning feet 180 feet from home plate with two ours. Reliever Alaina Adams (Oak Creek, Wisconsin / St. Thomas More HS) retired the final batter on a popup to second.

Adams (2-0) yielded three runs and two hits in two innings as the Flying Dutch's third pitcher of the game.

The Flying Dutch jumped to an 8-0 lead during the first inning by sending 12 batters to the plate. Eight different runners scored against Lasell (1-5).

Freshman third baseman Eliana Ruhrup (Mattawan, Michigan / Mattawan) padded Hope's lead with a second-inning RBI single that brought home sophomore designated player Kate DeMann (Byron Center, Michigan / South Christian).

In the fifth inning, freshman first baseman Maya Holser (Ada, Michigan / Forest Hills Central) scored a critical insurance run. Holser doubled to lead off the inning, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly from senior shortstop Grace Henry (Hudsonville, Michigan / Hudsonville).

Against Springfield, reliever Samantha Vermeesch (Ithaca, Michigan / Ithaca) returned to the mound in the sixth after pitching the game's first four innings and extinguished a threat.

Springfield (5-1) scored four times in the sixth to pull within a run. Vermeesch (3-1) yielded a single to the first batter she faced but recorded the final two outs on a popup and a called third streak.

Reliever Hailey Mellec (Commerce Township, Michigan / Walled Lake Northern) tossed a 1-2-3 seventh for the freshman's first collegiate save.

Offensively, Hope tied the score at 1-1 on a DeMann RBI single in the bottom of the first that knocked in senior leftfielder Sydney Zombo (Clinton Township, Michigan / Fraser).

The Flying Dutch took the lead for good on a third-inning sacrifice fly from DeMann that brought home senior centerfielder Peyton Benjamin (Eaton Rapids, Michigan / Eaton Rapids).

In the fourth, senior second baseman Kyra Acker (Eaton Rapids, Michigan / Eaton Rapids) hit a sacrifice fly that scored freshman catcher Sophie Stironek (Lake Orion, Michigan / Lake Orion).

Hope erupted for three runs in the fifth thanks to Springfield miscues.

Benjamin came home from third on a wild pitch for the rally's first run. A two-run throwing error off a ball hit by Stironek scored both DeMann and Zombo.

 
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