Blue Softball Caps Florida Trip with 5-1 Setback To Wis. –Stevens Point

CLERMONT, Fla. – First year Gen Brittingham (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) delivered an RBI single in the sixth inning but it wasn't enough to rally Wellesley College softball from an early 5-0 deficit, as the Blue fell to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, 5-1, in their final game at the PFX Athletics Spring Games at the Legends Way Ballfields.

Wellesley will return home with a 3-6 overall record following nine games in the Sunshine State. Wis. – Stevens Point (UWSP) is now 10-9 on the season.

Brittingham finished the contest 2-for-3 and now has a team-high 11 hits and five RBIs through nine games. Classmate Amanda Kim (Neshanic Station, N.J.) also added a pair of hits to raise her on base percentage to .400 on the season. Kim also scored on Brittingham's RBI single. 

In the circle, senior Julia Warner (Kenmore, Wash.) was charged with the loss after allowing all five runs on seven hits and three walks in 3.2 innings. Junior Sydney Hopper (Newcastle, Wash.) made her second straight scoreless relief appearance, surrendering just one hit over 3.1 innings. 

UWSP started the scoring in the second inning as a pair of two-out singles from first year Rachael Wakefield (River Falls, Wis.) and senior Paige Allen (South Elgin, Ill.) helped the Pointers to a 2-0 lead. Wakefield scored senior Sydeny Opdhal (Greenfield, Wis.) from third before coming around to score when Allen singled up the middle one batter later. 

The Pointers added three more runs in the fourth inning, as Warner ran into trouble early in the inning, loading the bases with a pair of walks and a single. UWSP junior Morgan Johnson (Combined Locks, Wis.) then delivered the big blast, lifting a bases-clearing RBI double to left field to make the score 5-0 and end the day for Warner.

The Blue got one back on Brittingham's RBI single in the sixth, as Kim singled to open the inning and stole second, before Brittingham drove her in. First year Julianne Griffin (Blue Bell, Pa.) then singled to give the Blue two aboard, but Wellesley was unable to add to their total.

Wellesley will now turn their focus to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season. The Blue open NEWMAC play on Friday, March 30 with a doubleheader at 1:00 PM at Emerson. UWSP will continue play in Clermont today and tomorrow morning.