Box Score WORCESTER -- A 3-for-4 effort from
Destiny Lum (Kahalu'u, HI) that resulted in three runs scored and a career-high tying five RBI effort, helped the WPI Softball team to a 12-1 rout of Simmons College on Wednesday afternoon.
Lum and the Engineers (13-10) amassed a season high 17 hits. WPI has now put together a 17-hit outing in the last four seasons. Simmons (12-18) fell victim to the Engineers fourth run-rule victory of the season.
Sofia Knopf (Plymouth, MA) picked up her second victory of the season, throwing 4.1 innings of action, allowing just five hits and the one earned run while striking out a handful of Sharks in the outing.
In addition to Lum's offensive effort,
Sandy Fairbairn (Norton, MA) also added a 3-for-4 outing at the plate, scoring three runs of her own while
Virginia McKinney (Larchmont, NY) was a perfect 4-for-4 from the plate, scoring a run and driving in a pair.
The Engineers started off with a bang as
Lucy Latour (North Dighton, MA) started things off with a triple to left center, coming home the next batter later behind a Lum single. Fairbairn singled up the middle followed by a McKinney single to load the bases for
Emma Nagy (Monroe, WA). Nagy reached on a fielding error, keeping the bases loaded as
Mia Francisco (Hudson, NH) drew a bases loaded walk to make it a 3-0 game.
Simmons starting pitcher,
Piper Kinney (Marlborough, MA) closed out the first inning with a pair of strikeouts. Kinney entered the game just four shy of 400 for her career, but the first inning strikeouts would be her lone of the game.
Ally Hyde (Portland, OR) picked up a pair of strikeouts in relief, her 99th and 100th of the season.
In the second inning, Latour once again started things off with a triple, and once again came home on a Lum single. A Fairbairn single to right field brought Lum all the way over to third and Fairbairn took second to set up McKinney for a bases clearing triple down the rightfield line to make it a 6-0 game and force the pitching change. A Francisco single to center brought home McKinney and gave WPI a 7-0 lead heading into the third inning of action.
In the top of the third, Kinney helped her own cause starting things off with a double to center, and coming home on an
Emily Deleault (Manchester, NH) double to right to put the Sharks on the board.
But WPI responded with a four-run bottom of the third, highlighted by a Lum three-run blast to left and capped off by a sac fly from Francisco to build the WPI lead to double-digits. Francisco finished the outing with three RBIs of her own.
In the fourth, WPI added an insurance run thanks to a
Colleen Mayer (Hillsborough, NJ) single to left to drive in
Suzannah Figler (Baltimore, MD).
Simmons tried to put something together in the fifth, with a pair of runners on but
Kaitlyn Barr (Grosse Pointe Woods, MI) settled things down and ended the game with a strikeout for the 12-1 win.
UP NEXT
WPI wraps up its homestand on Friday afternoon with a pair of games against NEWMAC foe Smith beginning at 3:30 pm while Simmons returns to the diamond with a doubleheader at New England College on Saturday, April 19 at noon.
