Women's Lacrosse & Baseball: 4-28-18
"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 April 28
Women's Lacrosse: April 28, 2018
The Wells College women's lacrosse team concluded its regular season with a 19-6 win at Hilbert College on Saturday, April 28. Wells is 6-4 overall and 5-4 in the North Eastern Athletic Conference. Hilbert is 1-14 overall and 0-9 in the NEAC.
Wells will face Bryn Athyn College in a NEAC playoff game Tuesday at Bryn Athyn.
The Express built a 10-goal advantage in the first half. A run of eight straight goals for Wells gave the Express a 9-1 lead. Wells also scored the last five goals of the first half and led 14-2 at halftime.
Savanah Connors scored a career-high seven goals for Wells. Mackenzie Maloney had seven goals and two assists. With her nine points, Maloney passed the 200-point career milestone and stands at 205 career points.
Julia Smith had two goals and five assists, and Renee Bartosz had two goals and three assists.
Wells held an 18-9 advantage in draw controls, and 11 of those were won by Maloney. Smith had four ground balls and Sam Giovannini had three caused turnovers, Anna Bozeat made five saves in net.
The victory was the sixth of the season for Wells, the most wins in a season since 2011, which was also the last time Wells qualified for the NEAC playoffs.
Baseball: April 28, 2018
The Wells College baseball team split a doubleheader against Gallaudet University on Saturday, April 28 at the Wells Turf Field. Gallaudet took the opening game 3-2, and Wells won the second game 22-11.
Gallaudet 3, Wells 2
Wells took the lead in the bottom of the fifth inning. Andrew Babcock led off the inning with a walk and later scored on a double by Justin Forster.
The Bison scored three unearned runs in the top of the sixth and held on for the win. After a two-out error put a runner on first, a double and a homer followed and brought in three.
Wells pulled a run back in the bottom of the sixth when a run scored on a wild pitch.
Mark Yorkey walked to lead off the seventh and A.J. Nesci walked later in the inning, but back-to-back fly outs ended the threat.
Zach Kemp started and pitched all seven innings none of the three runs he allowed were earned. He yielded four hits and one walk with six strikeouts.
Wells 22, Gallaudet 11
The Express scored 22 runs, matching a season-best total, on 16 hits.
Wells scored twice in the fifth inning on back-to-back RBI singles from Anthony Aumick and Tanner Dunkel to take a 3-2 lead.
The Express scored four more runs in the bottom of the sixth. Aumick had a two-run single and Mark Yorkey had an RBI hit to bring in Aumick.
Gallaudet scored four times in the top of the seventh to pull within 7-6, but the Express scored 15 runs in the bottom of the seventh.
The first five batters walked and all of them scored. Wells had eight hits in the inning including a two-run double by Aumick, a two-run double by Brandon Shirley, and a two-run single by Dunkel.
Aumick finished the game 3-for-4 with seven RBIs and three runs scored. Shirley was 3-for-4 with two doubles, two RBIs, and five runs scored. Dunkel had three hits and drove in four.
Tyler Young, Yorkey, and Andrew Babcock had two hits each.
Shirley was the starting pitcher and earned the victory. He allowed two runs on two hits with eight walks and eight strikeouts.
