MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME SOFTBALL

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Rockwood Park, Worcester, Mass.

GAME #1 FINAL:                 WORCESTER STATE 13, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 0 (5 INNINGS)

GAME #2 FINAL:                 WORCESTER STATE 21, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 0 (5 INNINGS)             

WORCESTER, Mass. --  Senior Alex Kerr (Franklin, Mass.) rapped out six hits and drove in nine runs to lead Worcester State to a sweep of a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference softball doubleheader from Massachusetts Maritime Saturday afternoon by scores of 13-0 in the opener and 21-0 in the nightcap in five inning contests played at Rockwood Park.

Kerr and fellow senior Kylene Pease (Ashland, Mass.) drove in four runs each in the opening game triumph for the host Lancers (14-13, 4-4 MASCAC), who used a pair of four run rallies in the second and third inning to take control of the contest.  Pease belted a two-run homer in the win for Worcester State, which also received a pair of hits from senior Aimee Lamoureux (East Brookfield, Mass.) as a two-run single off the bat of junior Hillary Hart (Clinton, Mass.).  Senior Hannah Everson (Methuen, Mass.) scattered three hits and fanned four to pick up the victory inside the circle for the Lancers, improving to 3-5 on the spring.  Sophomore Meghan Weir (North Andover, Mass.) rapped out a double in the opening setback for the visiting Buccaneers (0-18, 0-10 MASCAC), who also received a single from freshman Marissa Boudreau (New Bedford, Mass.).  Senior Janelle Beaulieu (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) added a single in suffering the setback on the mound for Massachusetts Maritime.

Sophomore Katie Storro (Leominster, Mass.) was a perfect 5-for-5 and drove in four runs in the nightcap victory for Worcester State, which used a nine-run second inning outburst to take control.  Kerr added four more hits and drove in five runs as part of a 22-hit attack for the Lancers, who also received three hits and four RBI off the bat of freshman Hayley Terry (North Dighton, Mass.) as well as two hits each from Pease and sophomore Katie Roy (Worcester, Mass.).  Freshman Meghan Rich (Chelmsford, Mass.) notched her seventh win of the season inside the circle for the hosts in allowing three hits and striking out six, as she helped her own cause with two hits at the plate.  Weir rapped out her second double of the day in the nightcap for Massachusetts Maritime, which also received singles from senior Rachel Johnson (South Chatham, Mass.) and freshman Cassie Swanson (Quincy, Mass.), as Beaulieu fanned one on the mound for the Buccaneers over four innings.

Massachusetts Maritime hosts Bridgewater State in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon at Alison Rollins Field beginning at 3:30 p.m., while Worcester State entertains Framingham State in a MASCAC twinbill on Sunday afternoon at Rockwood Park that begins at Noon.