CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Graduate Student Cassidy Musco (Walpole, Mass.) and first-year Jackie Paglieri (Upper Saddle River, N.J.) had RBI singles in a four-run sixth inning as fourth-seeded Babson College rallied to defeat fifth-seeded WPI, 6-2, in Game 10 of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Softball Tournament, but the Beavers' run in the tournament came to an end with a 4-0 loss to third-seeded MIT in the championship game on Saturday afternoon at Briggs Field.

With the win, MIT captured its second straight NEWMAC Tournament title and improves to 28-12 overall while the Beavers wind up their season with a 27-18 record.

Game 10: Babson 6, WPI 2

Musco had two hits and an RBI, junior Athena Hadjipanayis (Rye, N.Y.) had a pair of knocks and scored twice, and graduate student Michaela Russell (Boston, Mass.), sophomore Sophia Pak (New Rochelle, N.Y.) and Paglieri each drove in a run in the victory. Senior Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) went the distance to record her 17th victory of the season (17-8), allowing two runs on seven hits in seven innings, striking out two.

First-year Virgina McKinney (Larchmont, N.Y.) had a single and drove in two runs to lead WPI, which had seven hits from seven different hitters. Sophomore Destiny Lum (Kahalu'u, Hawaii) scored once after reaching base three times with a single and two walks, and first-year Riley O'Brien (Wynantskill, N.Y.) had the only extra-base hit in the game with a double. Junior Shaina Lazarus (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) started in the circle and worked into the sixth inning, striking out two, but took the loss (9-5).

The Engineers took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when sophomore Emma Nagy (Monroe, Wash.) and Lum reached on base hits, and after a sacrifice bunt moved them up a base, they both raced home on McKinney's infield single. Babson got one run back in the bottom of the second when Pak drew a no-out, bases-loaded walk, but the Beavers couldn't push any more runs across the plate after two runners were thrown out at home plate on a fielder's choice and a fly ball.

The Green and White tied the score in the fifth inning when Russell reached on a fielder's choice, advanced a base on an infield out and raced all the way home from second on a wild pitch. Hadjipanayis led off the sixth inning rally with a single, and after a WPI error, Musco drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single. A second Engineer error scored another run, Paglieri followed with an RBI single to right, and the final run of the inning came home on an infield ground out.

Game 11: MIT 4, Babson 0

MIT sophomore Caroline Langmeyer (Upper Arlington, Ohio), the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, allowed just four Babson hits and a walk while striking out six to improve to 19-4. O'Reilly worked five-plus innings for the Beavers, giving up four runs on seven hits, fanning six, but suffered her second loss in the tournament to fall to 17-9.

Russell had a double for the Beavers and Musco and first-years Emily Walsh (Flemington, N.J.) and Charlotte Raymond (Wrentham, Mass.) had singles.

Junior Mackenzie Bivin (San Diego, Calif.) produced a double, a triple, two runs scored and two RBI for the Engineers, while junior Michaela Cable (Valrico, Fla.) had a single, a double and a run scored. First-year Arianna Kumar (San Diego, Calif.) and junior Kennedy Adkison (San Jose, Calif.) both contributed RBI singles in the win.

MIT struck for two runs in the bottom of the first inning. Bivin delivered an RBI double to left center and Adkison scored Bivin with a two-out single to right. The Engineers added insurance runs in the sixth when Bivin legged out an RBI triple to right and then scored on Kumar's single to right.

The Beavers put two runners on base in the fourth inning on one-out singles by Walsh and Raymond but Langmeyer snuffed out the rally with a strikeout and a fly out. The Green and White managed just one hit and a walk the rest of the way.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is now 42-38 all-time against WPI in a series that dates back to 1989, and 46-29 all-time against MIT in a series that dates back to 1988.
• The Beavers are 7-8 all-time versus WPI in the postseason and 3-8 all-time against MIT in the conference playoffs.
• Graduate student Kate Karamouzis (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) drew a walk in each game to set the program's all-time record with 83 free passes, surpassing the mark of 82 set by Jack Enos '13 from 2010-13.