WESTFIELD, Mass. – Westfield State softball dropped a pair of extra inning games on Tuesday, March 8 in The Spring Games in Clermont, Fla.
The Owls lost the opener to Dominican (Ill.) College by an 8-7 final in 8 innings, while Emerson defeated the Owls, 4-2 in eight innings, in the nightcap.
Against Dominican, the Owls led 2-0 after two, and rallied for three runs in the sixth to grab a 5-3 lead.
After going to extra innings tied at 5-5, Westfield pushed across two runs in the top of the eighth. Christina Ciampa stole third base and scored on an error to put Westfield ahead 6-5, then later in the inning Colleen Hughes delivered an RBI single to put the Owls ahead 7-5.
Dominican strung together four base hits in the bottom half of the frame to push across three runs for the win.
Jordyn Lummus had a pair of hits for the Owls.
Against Emerson, Westfield tied the game at 1-1 in the 3rd inning when Lummus' sac fly scored Alex Czarkosky from third.
The game went to extra innings tied at 1-1. Owls' starting pitcher Brenna Welch tossed five strong innings, allowing just one run on four hits.
In the eighth, the Owls retired the tiebreaker runner on a fielders choice, and drew a pop up to open the inning with two outs, but the Lions rallied with three hits and two walks to push three runs across.
Westfield got one run back when Hughes doubled to left field to score Lummus to lead off the inning, to trim the final score to 4-2, but the Owls couldn't muster the tying runs.
Hughes and Victoria Quill each finshed with two hits for Westfield.