Softball Closes Regular Season With Big Win Against UMass

Amherst, MA- The Merrimack Women's Softball team won their last regular season game as they rolled over the UMass Minutewomen by a score of 6-1 on Wednesday afternoon.

The Warriors jumped out to a lead they did not relinquish in the third inning as Courtney Lanpher doubled home Ellen Hubbard for the games first run. Sydney Samuel made the lead two as she scored Lanpher on a single two batters later.
 
UMass scored their first run of the game in the bottom half of the third but the Warriors scored two more runs in the fifth as Lanpher scored Hubbard again, and Lanpher scored on a Madison Cerpa single as the next hitter. The Warriors put the cap on the win with their third two run inning, this time in the seventh as Cerpa doubled scoring Lanpher again and she herself scored on a wild pitch.
 
 
Notes and Numbers

• Courtney Lanpher went 3-4 with two RBI.
• Madison Cerpa went 2-4 with two RBI
• Sydney Samuel, Hannah Scarano, and Sam Russalesi all had a hit each.
• Ellen Hubbard walked twice and scored twice.
• Bry Michitson had a hit, pitched three innings, allowing three hits and a run as she won her 12^th game of the season.
• Madie Fornwalt pitched three innings of scoreless relief and Katelyn Thompson also had one inning scoreless.

UP NEXT:
The Warriors will get set to play in the NEC Playoff Tournament with Game 1 on Thursday May 11^th.
 
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