Dartmouth College
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Dartmouth Softball Drops Midweek Game to Connecticut
4/14/2010 5:00:00 PM | Softball, Athletics
STORRS, Conn. - The University of Connecticut scored in every inning but one as the Dartmouth softball team dropped a midweek game, 12-4 to the Huskies at the UConn Softball Complex on Wednesday.
The home team exploded for 12 runs on 14 hits throughout the six innings. The Big Green scattered six hits by six different batters while notching runs in the fourth and fifth innings.
Connecticut got on the board quickly with two runs in both the first and second innings to take a quick, 4-0 lead. Neither team was able to put any across in the third.
Dartmouth came through in the top of the fourth with a single run by Noelle Ramirez (Pompton Plains, N.J.). The Huskies however added three more to their total in the bottom half of the frame.
In the fifth, the Big Green had its biggest inning of the contest, scoring three runs on three hits. A two-out single by Hillary Hubert (Grant Park, Ill.) got things going as the rookie moved to second and on to third on a wild pitch. Hubert came home on a single up the middle by Leigha Clarkson (Perris, Calif.). Ramirez knocked two in with a long ball blast to left center, cutting into UConn's 7-4 lead.
The home team responded however, with two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth for the final 12-run tally.
Besides Hubert, Clarkson and Ramirez, Kirsten Costello (Windsor, N.Y.), Molly Khalil (Seal Beach, Calif.) and Hillary Barker (Duvall, Wash.) each had hits for the Big Green. Kat Hicks (Templeton, Calif.) began the game in the circle for Dartmouth. The sophomore went 2.0 innings before being replaced by Barker who completed the game. They combined for five strikeouts and eight earned runs.
UConn was led by Brittany Duclos who had five RBIs and three runs scored while Julianne Towers was 4-for-5. Duclos was 3-for-5 on the day with two of her hits leaving the park. Tricia Sullivan pitched a six full innings allowing four runs on six hits while striking out seven.
The loss drops the Big Green to 7-19 while UConn improves to 18-19.
Dartmouth is back in action this weekend with two straight days of doubleheaders against Ivy League foe Yale. Game time for Saturday and Sunday at Sachem Field is 12:30 p.m.
