Cambridge, MA --- Another matchup against Wheaton, the fourth in less than a week, resulted in a 5-2 loss for the WPI softball team on Thursday afternoon in the NEWMAC Championships on the campus of MIT. 
 
With the loss, the Engineers (25-16) finish out their 2025 season. WPI recorded a 25-win season for the first time since 2022 and the sixth time in the last 10 seasons. 
 
Naomi Boldebuck (Billerica, MA) went the distance one last time in 2025 pitching all seven innings while allowing six hits, just one earned run and struck out a pair. On the offensive front, Lucy Latour (North Dighton, MA) and Virginia McKinney (Larchmont, NY) finished with a pair of hits from the 1-2 spot in the lineup. Latour scored both of the Engineers' runs on the day while McKinney drove in both.  Ariana Kreuzer (Walpole, MA) and Sandy Fairbairn (Norton, MA) also notched hits for the Crimson and Gray with Fairbairn joining Latour and McKinney with a double.
 
Wheaton put a pair of runs on the board in the first inning, taking advantage of a pair of Engineer miscues to gain a 2-0 lead. In the bottom half of the frame, the Engineers cut that lead in half when Latour kicked things off with a double to center and followed that up by stealing third. McKinney picked up her first RBI on the day with a single to right to bring home Latour. 
 
In the second, Wheaton added another pair of runs, once again behind an Engineer miscue and put the team's fifth and final run of the day on the board in the fourth inning. 
 
As always WPI would not go down without a fight clamoring for a second run in the sixth inning of action. Once again Latour started things off off, this time with a single to centerfield and came around to score all the way from first base on a double down the leftfield line from McKinney. 
 
But that was as close as the Engineers would get as Wheaton hung on for the win as they advance to game 10 of the NEWMAC Championship on Saturday afternoon at Noon as they take on No. 2 Babson.