No. 23 Softball Downs Mount St. Joseph in Title Round but Falls to Lions in NCAA Regional Final

Beavers’ Productive Season Ends with 38-10 Document

GENESEO, N.Y.—No. 23 Babson College or university staved off elimination with a 4-2 victory in excess of Mount St. Joseph University in the first title video game of the working day at the NCAA Geneseo Regional but the Lions captured the regional crown with a 5-3 triumph about the Beavers in the championship game Sunday afternoon at Raschi Subject.

With the result, the Beavers wind up their year with a sparkling 38-10 general document. Mount St. Joseph enhances to 34-10 in general and advancements to an NCAA Tremendous Regional Very best-of-Three sequence following weekend from No. 4 Salisbury.

Junior Kate Karamouzis (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) and sophomores Moira O’Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) and Chloe Joslin (Wyoming, R.I.) represented Babson on the Geneseo Regional All-Match Crew.

Babson 4, Mount St. Joseph 2

Karamouzis singled and tripled and drove in two runs for the Beavers and senior Audrey Labouliere (Pipersville, Pa.) doubled and walked and scored two times in the win. Junior Lexi Morris (Lexington, Mass.) went 1-for-2 with a stroll, an RBI and a operate scored, and to start with-year Sara Moore (Kennett Sq., Pa.) also knocked in a operate.

O’Reilly went the distance for the Beavers, allowing just two operates although scattering nine hits and a walk and fanning seven. She enhanced her record to 22-5 on the yr, matching Kathleen Conway ’14 for the program’s one-year record for wins, set in 2013.

To start with-yrs Kelsi Stevenson (Mooresville, Ind.) and Macy Cornelius (Whiteland, Ind.) each individual had two hits and drove in a operate for Mount St. Joseph. Senior Kamryn McCool (Brookville, Ind.) was tagged for 4 operates on 6 hits and three walks in five innings, suffering just her fifth reduction of the year (20-5). Sophomore Hailey Johnson (Lebanon, Ore.) came on in the sixth inning and held the Beavers at bay the last two innings, retiring all 6 batters she confronted.

Babson jumped on top ideal absent with two runs in the to start with inning. Labouliere drew a one-out wander and senior Isabel Aguilar (Avon, Conn.) singled to remaining to established the table, and Karamouzis introduced household Labouliere with the initial operate with a single up the center. Just after Joslin walked to load the bases, Morris adopted with a walk of her individual to plate Aguilar.

The Beavers added substantially-desired insurance policies operates in the fifth and sixth innings. Labouliere smashed a double to remaining in the fifth and came all over to score on Karamouzis’ triple down the proper field line, and the Green and White loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth on singles by Morris and senior Cara Harnick (Sammamish, Wash.) and a strike-by-pitch by senior Abrianna Natoli (Fairfield, Conn.) ahead of Moore’s fielder’s choice scored Morris.

The Lions staged a two-out comeback try in the bottom of the seventh. To start with-yr Maddie Kennedy (Erlanger, Ky.) led off with a solitary and classmate Emily McDonald (Indianapolis, Ind.) and junior Ali Lang (Eminence, Ind.) hit two out singles to load the bases. Stevenson and initially-year Macy Cornelius (Whiteland, Ind.) followed with RBI singles to slice the deficit in 50 %, but the game ended when Lang was thrown out making an attempt to progress a foundation.

Mount St. Joseph 5, Babson 3

Moore and Labouliere each experienced three hits for the Beavers, with Moore scoring 2 times and Labouliere hitting a double and scoring the moment. Aguilar had two hits and drove in a run, and Karamouzis legged out an RBI triple.

Senior Logan MacDonald (Wilmington, Mass.) went the length in the circle for Babson, letting 3 acquired operates on six hits and three walks. She took the loss and winds up the year with a 13-3 document.

The Lions scored their 5 operates on just six hits, like two by initial-year Macy Cornelius (Whiteland, Ind.), who drove in a operate. Junior Elizabeth Ivers (Shelbyville, Ky.) experienced a double and two RBI, McDonald knocked in a operate, and sophomore Casey Kemp (Blanchester, Ohio) experienced a double and a wander and scored two times. Kemp also earned the comprehensive-recreation victory for the Lions, allowing 12 hits but just two earned operates whilst striking out seven.

Babson took a 1- guide in the to start with inning when Moore led off with a solitary and later on scored on a Karamouzis triple to appropriate-center discipline. Mount St. Joseph tied it with an unearned run in the next inning and pulled in advance in the 3rd on an RBI single by Cornelius.

Following the Beavers tied the rating at 2-2 with an unearned run in the bottom of the third, the Lions took the lead for superior with two operates in the top of the fourth. Ivers doubled home a operate and McDonald hit a sacrifice fly to left to score sophomore Kaci Finchum (Mooresville, Ind.) in a close participate in at the plate.

The Green and White obtained just one back again in the bottom of the fifth when Karamouzis hammered an RBI triple to suitable, but the likely tying run was cut down attempting to rating on a wild pitch on one more close play at the plate. The Lions tacked on an additional unearned run in the sixth inning to provide insurance plan. Babson place the potential tying runs on foundation in the seventh inning but Kemp retired the final two batters to shut out the activity.

Sport NOTES
• The Beavers’ 38 wins equals the one-time system record achieved again in 2005.
• Moore wrapped up the year with 53 hits, tied for ninth-most in a year in plan heritage and the most due to the fact Annie Quine ’19 experienced 55 hits in 2016.
• Karamouzis completed the spring with an eight-recreation article-period hitting streak, which includes a 7-for-14 general performance in the Regionals with two triples and five RBI.
• Babson lost for just the third time in 36 video games this period when scoring at least a few operates and for just the sixth time in 38 video games when scoring the initially run of the recreation.