United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics - Softball

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(3/29/08)--Colleen Denny’s RBI single capped a two-out seventh inning rally as Coast Guard scored five runs in the final two innings to turn a 4-0 deficit into a 5-4 win in the opener while in game two, Courtney Wolf’s RBI single in the top of the seventh inning snapped a 5-5 tie as the Bears swept WPI 5-4 and 6-5 in a New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) doubleheader in which Coast Guard played at home, but was the visiting team because WPI’s field was unplayable.

In the opener, Coast Guard trailed 4-0 in the sixth before an RBI single by Denny and an RBI ground out by Emily Paxson, cut the deficit in half.

In the seventh inning the first two batters made outs and Coast Guard was down to its final out. Amanda Frederick singled, Carin Sweeney followed with an RBI double, Wolf tied the game on an RBI single before Denny gave the Bears the lead with an RBI single.

Wolf was 4 for 4 in game one while Denny had two hits and two RBI’s.

Crystal Lee Coonan went the distance allowing eight hits, four runs, two earned while walking seven and striking out three to get the win.

In game two, WPI led 3-1 before Coast Guard (7-11, 2-2) scored four times in the fourth with the big hit being a two-run single by Paxson which gave the Bears a 4-3 lead before Laura Hutchinson’s RBI single pushed the lead to 5-3.

WPI (7-6, 0-2) scored single runs in the fourth and fifth to tie the game before Wolf’s RBI single scored Annette Boston, who reached on an error to begin the seventh.

Coonan (7-6) also picked up the win in game two as she went the distance and allowed 10 hits and four earned runs while walking three and striking out five.