Softball: "On This Day" 3-29-17
"On This Day" is a Wells College Athletics feature designed to look back over the past three seasons when most of our 2020 seniors began play for the Express and what highlights happened to Wells' spring teams on this day on March 29
Softball: March 29, 2017
The Wells College softball team opened its 2017 North Eastern Athletic Conference season with two home games Wednesday, March 29 against Keuka College. The Express pushed the defending NEAC champs into extra innings in the second game while also playing the Wolves even more than halfway through the opening game.
Keuka – the winner of seven of the last 10 conference titles – took the second game in the eighth inning by a 9-3 final after also taking the first contest 6-1.
In the second game, Wells rallied from two deficits to force extra innings against the defending conference champions. The Express fell behind 1-0 in the top of the third, but in the bottom of the third Wells answered on an RBI single from Naomi Kubo to bring home Jessica Conover.
Keuka went back in front with two runs in the top of the sixth, but with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and Shelby Medovich on second, Kubo blasted a double to left field to bring home Medovich. Kubo advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on an infield error to tie the score 3-3.
The eighth inning was played under international tie break rules. Keuka scored six runs in the top of the eighth and went on to the win. Baylee Pearce pitched eight strong innings for Wells. She allowed just two earned runs and two walks, with seven strikeouts. Kubo and DiMino had two hits each for the Express, and Sydney Cullen had a double.
In the first game, the Wolves took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Wells came back to tie the score in the bottom of the fourth inning on a solo home run by Kubo to left field. It was the first home run of the season for Wells, and the first home run hit at the new home field of the Express at the Wells Turf Field complex. The Wolves added runs in the fifth and sixth to thwart the Wells rally.
Kubo took the loss in the circle for Wells in four and a third innings of work. Conover pitched the last two and two-thirds innings and recorded three strikeouts.
