THE BASICS 

Game One Score: WPI 4, Emerson 1

Game Two Score: WPI 14, Emerson 4 (6 innings)

Game One Pitching Record: WP - Sophia Togneri (6-9) ; LP - Jessica Gomez (8-8)

Game Two Pitching Record: WP - Kelly Pritchard (2-0) ; LP - Grace Beaulieu (1-2)

Records: Emerson Lions (13-14, 1-8 NEWMAC) ; WPI Engineers (11-14, 5-4 NEWMAC)

Location: Boston, Mass. (Rotch Field)

Date: April 15, 2023

The Lead: The Emerson softball team were upended by WPI in a doubleheader sweep to the Engineers on Saturday afternoon. In game one, Emerson were topped, 4-1. Then to close the day, the Lions were upended by the Engineers, 14-4. 

GAME ONE: WPI 4, Emerson 1

INSIDE THE NUMBERS 

EMERSON 

Kit Zenga: 1-3, double, RBI

Grace Bealieu: 1-3

Claire Overton: 1-3

Carly Rosenberger: 1-2, one run scored

PITCHING

Jessica Gomez (L, 8-7): 7.0 IP, eight hits, four runs (three earned), three walks, six strikeouts

WPI

Sydney Russell: 2-3, two runs scored, three stolen bases

Lindsay Ambrosino: 2-3, double, one run scored, RBI

PITCHING

Sophia Togneri (W, 6-9): 7.0 IP, four hits, one run, six strikeouts

HOW IT HAPPENED 

• Three innings were in the books before the scoreless tie was broken by WPI in their half of the fourth. After Diaz got herself on second with a double, she came around for the Engineers' first run on Nagy's single to left. 
• Within the fifth and sixth frames, Emerson saw their deficit grow to 4-0 behind a sacrifice fly followed by an RBI single from Alicia Salvalzo and Ambrosino's RBI two-bagger. 
• Emerson made their way onto the board thanks to Zenga's double to the left field fence that drove in Rosenberger and moved the score to 4-1. 
• In the bottom of the seventh, Emerson tried to get a comeback going, but Togneri retired the Lions in order on strikes as the Purple & White fell to the Engineers, 4-1. 

GAME TWO: WPI 14, Emerson 4 (6 innings)

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

EMERSON

Overton: 1-2, one run scored, home run, two RBIs

Beaulieu: 1-3, one run scored

Makenzie Killough: 1-3, double, two RBIs

PITCHING 

Kit Zenga: 5.0 IP, 12 hits, eight runs, three walks, three strikeouts

Grace Beaulieu (L, 1-2): 1.0 IP, five hits, six runs, two walks, one strikeout

WPI

Sydney Russell: 3-4, three runs scored, stolen base, RBI

Destiny Lum: 2-4, double, four runs scored, three RBIs

Alicia Salvalzo: 3-4, two doubles, two runs scored, RBI

Jocelyn Diax: 1-3, two RBIs

Liz Jordan: 1-4, one run scored, two RBIs

PITCHING

Emma Nagy:  3.0 IP, three hits, four runs, two walks, two strikeouts

Kelly Pritchard (W, 2-0): 3.0 IP, two hits, three strikeouts

HOW IT HAPPENED 

• WPI struck in the top of the first when Ambrosino drove a sacrifice fly into right to plate Russell for the 1-0 lead. Emerson answered in the bottom half of the first when Overton went yard to lock the game at 1-all. 
• The Engineers broke the game open in the second inning when they pushed across seven runs with the help of three singles and a solo home run from Ambrosino to move the score to 8-1. 
• Emerson used the home half of the third to chip away at WPI's lead and brought home three runs to move the score to 9-4 after Killough's double drove in both Beaulieu and sophomore Mackenzie Rice.
• WPI's fourth through six frames saw them tack on six more runs to take their lead into double-figures at 14-4. 
• Zannotti reached on a fielder's choice to put a runner on for Emerson in the bottom of the sixth with two outs and later advanced to second on a wild pitch. Pritchard kept the runner at second as she fanned the final Lions' batter of the inning as the hosts fell to WPI in game two, 14-4. 

UP NEXT 

• Emerson return to the field on Friday, April 21st and play host to Clark for a twin bill at 3 & 5 p.m.