South Portland – In the first game of today's double header softball action the Lady Seawolves found themselves down 3-0 in the third inning to the Golden Eagles of EMCC, then Roberta Trafton (Corinth, ME) crushed a triple driving in shortstop Shannon Blanchard (Windsor, ME) and jumpstarting the SMCC offense. At the bottom of the fourth inning the score was deadlocked at 3-3 but the Lady Seawolves came out firing, rattling off six hits including doubles by catcher Amber Jones (Deer Isle, ME) and third baseman Charlotte Lewis (Chatham, NH) and bringing in eight runs, pulling ahead 11-3.
The Golden Eagles rallied in the sixth inning to pull the game to within one run, 10-11, but Lady Seawolf first baseman Kathryn Gilio (Hampden, ME) drilled a one run homer in the bottom of the sixth to widen the margin back to two runs. The SMCC defense buckled down and held the Golden Eagles scoreless in the seventh to come away with the 12-10 win.
In game two SMCC pitcher Charlotte Lewis (Chatham, NH) paced the game racking up five strikeouts and only giving up two runs. The Lady Seawolf offense showed no signs of slowing down in game two as they accumulated 17 hits, 10 RBIs, and 11 runs. The offense was led by leftfielder Danielle Mobbs (Richmond, VT) who singled three times, drove in three RBIs and scored two runs. The game was called after five innings with a score of 11-2 in favor of the Lady Seawolves.
With these two victories the Lady Seawolves improve to 3-1 overall and 3-1 in conference action. The Lady Seawolves will be returning to action Sunday September 22nd at home against Fisher College at 11am and University of Maine – Presque Isle at 3pm.
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