CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—First-year Belle DiCampello (Pottstown, Pa.) drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh inning to help visiting Babson College earn a split of Wednesday afternoon's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader at MIT. 

The Beavers defeated the Engineers 6-2 in the nightcap after suffering a 3-2 eight-inning loss in game one. 

Babson is now 11-6 overall and 3-3 in conference play, while MIT is 11-5 overall and 2-2 in the NEWMAC. 

Game 1: MIT 3, Babson 2 (8 innings)
Junior Allie Cubberly (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), sophomore Charlotte Raymond (Wrentham, Mass.) and first-year Maddy DeLong (Cranford, N.J.) all doubled to lead the Beavers, who finished with just five hits. Graduate student Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) went the distance in the circle allowing two earned runs and striking out three while falling to 3-3 on the year. 

First-year Delaney Benevides (Plainville, Mass.) and senior Mackenzie Bivin (San Diego, Calif.) each had two hits, while classmate Mikayla Cable (Valrico, Fla.), fellow senior Kennedy Adkinson (San Jose, Calif.) and junior Ashley Ladd (Austin, Texas) all drove in a run to lead the Engineers. Junior Caroline Langmeyer (Upper Arlington, Ohio) struck out three and gave up just one earned run in a complete-game effort in the circle to improve to 5-1. 

Ladd put the hosts in front with an RBI double in the bottom of the second but the Green and White answered right back as DeLong led off the top of the third with a double, moved to third on a ground out and scored on a sacrifice fly by senior Athena Hadjipanayis (Rye, N.Y.). O'Reilly retired 11 consecutive hitters before giving up a one-out single to Bivin in the bottom of the seventh and Langmeyer retired eight straight after allowing a lead-off double by Cubberly to start the fifth, sending the game to extra innings. 

DeLong brought home sophomore Emily Walsh (Flemington, N.J.) with a sacrifice fly to center to put Babson in front 2-1 in the top of the eighth before MIT rallied for a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning. Sophomore Nicole Johnston (St. Charles, Ill.) scored on an RBI ground out by Cable and Adkinson followed with two-out, bases-loaded single to drive in Benevides with the game-winning run. 

Game 2: Babson 6, MIT 2
Junior Sophia Pak (New Rochelle, N.Y.) went 2-for-4 with a run scored, Walsh doubled and drove in a pair of runs, and Raymond doubled, walked twice and scored a pair of runs for Babson, which got a hit from nine different players. Graduate student Cameron Whiteford (Centerville, Md.) struck out five while giving up just two runs on three hits to improve to 5-3 with win in the circle. 

Whiteford, who retired the first eight batters she faced, got a comebacker to work out a second-and-third, two-out jam in the fourth and recorded a pair of strikeouts around a pop-up with runners on second and third and no outs in the fifth to keep the Green and White in front 1-0. The visitors doubled the lead in the sixth as Raymond walked to start the frame and later scored on DeLong's two-out single to center. 

MIT got runners to second and third again with one out in the sixth and tied the game thanks to a sacrifice fly by Bivin and an infield single by Ladd. The Beavers responded with a four-run seventh-inning rally to go back in front for good. 

Hadjipanayis worked a lead-off walk and scored on DiCampello's double to the gap in left center one batter later to make it 3-2. DiCampello scored on an error following Pak's single and Walsh came through with a two-run double to left extending the margin to 6-2. 

Senior Katie Katsuyama (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) gave up three earned runs on seven hits while striking out three and walking five over 6.0 innings to drop to 2-2 with the loss for the Engineers. 

Both teams resume conference play with doubleheaders on Friday starting at 3 p.m. as Babson hosts Smith, while MIT takes on Wheaton. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 47-30 all-time against MIT and the teams have split their last three regular season doubleheaders. 
•    Hadjipanayis extended her hitting streak to 10 games with a knock in both games versus the Engineers. 
•    Babson is now 3-2 in one-run games and 2-1 in extra innings this season.
•    The Green and White is now 11-1 this season when scoring at least three runs.