NEW LONDON, Conn.—Visiting Babson College and the Coast Guard Academy played a pair of one-run games and split Saturday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWAMC) softball doubleheader at Nitchman Field. 

The Beavers held on a for a 5-4 victory in the opener and saw its late comeback fall short in game two as it suffered a 7-6 loss to the Bears. Babson has won four of its last five games and is now 9-4 overall, while Coast Guard snapped a three-game skid in the nightcap to improve to 5-5. Both teams are 1-1 in the NEWMAC. 

Babson 5, Coast Guard 4
Senior Sara Moore (Kennett Square, Pa.) and junior Sophia Pak (New Rochelle, N.Y.) both singled three times, drove in a run and scored, while sophomore Charlotte Raymond (Wrentham, Mass.) singled twice for the Beavers. Graduate student Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) struck out six and allowed just one run over 5.0 innings to improve to 2-2 with the win. 

The Green and White stranded six runners over the first three innings before tying the game on Pak's two-out RBI single in the top of the fifth. Moore made it 2-0 with a two-out RBI knock to center in the sixth and came around to score all the way from first on an error following senior Athena Hadjipanayis' (Rye, N.Y.) single to right. 

The Bears took advantage of a two-out error to get a run back in the bottom of the frame, but Pak singled and scored on an error with one out and graduate Cameron Whiteford (Centerville, Md.) came home on another miscue with two outs to make it 5-2. Sophomore Katie Vlacich (Concord, N.H.) gave up a one-out RBI single to senior Vernoica Krystofik (Colchester, Conn.), who later scored on a two-out base hit by classmate Natalie Beck (Billings, Mont.) to make it 5-4, but got a ground out with runners on first and second for the final out to pick up her first save. 

Junior Dana Walker (Macon, Ga.) went the distance in the circle for Coast Guard allowing just one earned run while striking out 10 and scattering nine hits. 

Coast Guard 7, Babson 6
First-year Belle DiCampello (Pottstown, Pa.) was 3-for-4 with a homer and two runs scored, while Raymond was 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Whiteford finished 2-for-3 with two RBI at the plate but fell to 4-2 on the year in the circle after giving up four earned runs while striking out six and walking four in a complete-game effort. 

The Bears jumped on top in the bottom of the first as Beck and first-year Hayden Reilly (Prosper, Texas) scored on junior Maura Murphy's (Bristow, Va.) one-out triple and classmate Bridget Bartz (Arlington, Va.) followed with a two-out RBI single that plated Murphy to make it 3-0. Murphy came through with another two-out knock that brought home Reilly in the second, but Babson responded by taking advantage of three errors and getting RBI singles from Raymond and Whiteford to tie the game in the top of the third. 

Coast Guard regained the lead in the bottom of the frame though as it loaded the bases and pushed across a pair of runs on a two-out error for a 6-4 edge. DiCampello's first career homer in the top of the fourth made it a one-run game, but the hosts added an insurance run in the sixth when sophomore Abriana Schmutz (Marysville, Ohio) led off with a single and later scored on Beck's double to the gap in left center. 

Pak led off the top of the seventh with a single and Raymond followed with a double to put runners on second and third. Following a ground out, Whiteford cut the Beavers' deficit to one with a sacrifice fly before Reilly got a line out to second to end the game. 

Reilly, who pitched the first two frames before returning to the circle in the fourth, improved to 1-1 with the win after giving up two runs on seven hits over 6.0 innings. 

Both teams return to action next Friday at 3 p.m. as Babson hosts Springfield, while Coast Guard travels to Clark. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 34-39 all-time against Coast Guard and the teams have split their doubleheaders in back-to-back seasons.
•    DiCampello has reached base safely in each of Babson's 13 games this spring, while Pak extended her hitting streak to six games and has an RBI in three straight outings. 
•    The Beavers have recorded at least nine hits in each of their last five games. 
•    Babson is now 3-1 on the year in one-run games.