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Kris Dufour
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Clarkson CLARKSON 2-9
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Winner Amherst AMHERST 2-3
Clarkson CLARKSON
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Final
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Amherst AMHERST
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Clarkson CLARKSON 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 3
Amherst AMHERST 4 0 0 1 4 0 X 9 12 2

W: Religa, Gwen (1-2) L: Amanda Corrice (0-5)

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Winner Amherst College Amherst College 0
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Westminster College Softball Westminster College Softball 0
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Amherst College Amherst College
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Final
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Westminster College Softball Westminster College Softball
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Amherst College Amherst College 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 7 2
Westminster College Softball Westminster College Softball 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 4 3

Game Recap: Softball |

Youngsters Power Mammoths to Thursday Sweep of Clarkson, Westminster

CLERMONT, Fla. -- First-year Jayla Adkins went 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs in a Thursday-opening 9-4 win over Clarkson and sophomore Laura Daniels crushed a decisive 3-run home run in the nightcap, a 6-3 win over Westminster, as the Amherst College softball team pulled off a Thursday sweep to reach the .500 level (3-3) on te spring trip and season. 

The Mammoths are back at it Friday with a doubleheader. It begins at 9 a.m. with a game against Wisconsin-Oshkosh. It continues at 11:15 with a battle against Franklin & Marshall. Both games are at the Hancock Sports Complex. 

Game 1: Amherst 9, Clarkson 4

* Amherst jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first. With two outs and nobody on, Brooke Wild walked and Adkins singled. Abby Moravek then clubbed a double center field that scored both runners for a 2-0 lead. Laura Ro singled Moravek to third and then stole second. An error on the throw allowed Moravek to score. Heidi Li  then reached on an error that Ro scored on. 

* Clarkson tied the game with a four-run second. But the Mammoths rallied for a single run in the fourth and four more in the fifth to take a 9-4 lead. In the fourth, tree straight two-out singles by May Mishima, Wild and Adkins scored Samantha Portz, wo ad walked with two outs and nobody on. 

* In the fifth, Abby Kong had a clutch RBI-single and Adkins capped the uprising with a two-run double. 

* Gwen Religa earned the win from the circle, coming on in relief and tossing 5 innings of 1-hit, 0-run relief. She walked two and fanned eight to earn her first collegiate victory. 

Game 2: Amherst 6, Westminster 3

* Amherst took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first when Moravek lined a two-run double to right. 

* In the Amherst third, Jenna Holmes walked, Portz singled and Daniels came up and crushed a ball to staightaway center field that cleared the wall for a three-run home run and 5-1 lead. In the Amherst fourth, Abby Reban doubled and scored on an error. 

* Moravek earned the complete-game win, going seven innings and giving up three runs, two earned, on four hits. She walked three and struck out tree and is now 2-0 on the season. 

* Amherst had 7 hits. Moravek was 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs.

 
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