WORCESTER, Mass. – Simmons softball (12-18) dropped a mid-week non-conference single game to WPI (13-10) on Wednesday afternoon.
The Engineers offense jumped on the scoreboard first, putting up a crooked number three in the home half of the first. They extended their lead to seven with another four runs in the second and they did not let up.
In the top of the third, junior right-hander
Piper Kinney helped her own cause starting things off with a double to center, and coming home on an
Emily Deleault double to right to put the Sharks on the board.
But WPI responded in the bottom of the third, pushing across another four runs to take an 11-1 lead.
Kinney 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 picked up a pair of strikeouts in relief, her 99
th and 100
th at Simmons.
SIMMONS HIGHLIGHTS
- Junior right-hander Ally Hyde struck out two batters in 2.2 innings of relief giving her 100 strikeouts in her two-year career at Simmons.
- Fellow junior right-hander Piper Kinney registered two strikeouts as she is two strikeouts shy of 400 in her career.
- Junior Emily Deleault went one-for-two with an RBI double from the top of the line-up.
- Junior Emery Kreidel-Reimer went two-for-two at the plate with a double.
UP NEXT
Simmons returns to the diamond on Saturday, April 19 when they travel north to Henniker, New Hampshire to face New England College. First pitch at noon.
