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Williams Softball Rallies Past Middlebury
iBerkshires.com Sports,
09:12PM / Friday, April 20, 2018
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Rebecca Duncan's two-strike, two-out bloop single to center in the bottom of the seventh inning scored pinch-runner Jennifer Hickey from second with the winning run as the Williams College softball team came from behind to edge NESCAC West Division rival Middlebury, 7-6, Friday at Cole Field. 
 
The Ephs improved to 24-6 overall, 7-3 in the NESCAC West, while the Panthers slipped to 13-8 overall, 2-4 in divisional play. The two teams are scheduled to play a doubleheader Saturday back at Cole Field beginning at noon.
 
Friday, Williams found itself down 5-0 heading into the bottom of the fourth inning, but scored four runs -- on the strength of a Casey Pelz grand slam home run - in their half and added two in the bottom of the fifth to take a 6-5 lead. Middlebury rallied for a single run in the top of the sixth when Ali Della Volpe stroked a triple to right field and scored when Emily Moore grounded a two-out, two-strike seeing-eye single to right field to tie the game at six. 
 
The Ephs winning rally in the seventh was started by senior Lexi Curt, who stroked a one-out double down the left-field line off Middlebury pitcher Emily Morris. Mackenzie Murphy's liner to right was caught for the second out, but Duncan battled Morris for seven pitches before blooping a ball into shallow center that found green grass just in front of a hard-charging Della Volple as Hickey raced home withe deciding run.
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