CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—First-year Maggie Feng (Brookfield, Wis.) drove in classmate Amanda Huang (Redmond, Wash.) with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift top-seeded MIT to a 2-1 victory over second-seeded Babson College in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball tournament action on Thursday afternoon at Briggs Field. 

With its second tournament victory in as many days, MIT improves to 27-10 overall and moves on to the championship round. Babson had a four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 25-14.

Senior Sara Moore (Kennett Square, Pa.) collected two hits and scored a run to lead the Beavers, while junior Sophia Pak (New Rochelle, N.Y.) had a single and an RBI. Graduate student Cameron Whiteford (Centerville, Md.) suffered the loss in the circle despite allowing just two hits and an unearned run in 2.2 innings in relief of classmate Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio), who worked four innings and conceded just one run on one hit and three walks while striking out two.

Feng finished with two hits, an RBI and a run scored and first-year Delaney Benevides (Plainville, Mass.) went 1-for-2 with an RBI for the Engineers, who managed just three hits on the day. Junior Caroline Langmeyer (Upper Arlington, Ohio) earned the victory, allowing one run on five hits and two walks, fanning four.

The Engineers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third. Feng drew a leadoff walk, stole both second and third, and scored on Benevides' single to left. The Beavers came right back in the top of the fourth to tie it up, as Moore led off with a single to center, went to second on a sacrifice bunt by senior Athena Hadjipanayis (Rye, N.Y.), and scored on Pak's two-out single to center.

Babson threatened to take the lead in the top of the sixth when Moore reached on a lead-off bunt single. After a foul out and a fielder's choice, Pak was hit by a pitch and sophomore Charlotte Raymond (Wrentham, Mass.) reached base on an infielder grounder to load the bases, but Langmeyer got a groundout to end the inning.

Sophomore Arianna Kumar (San Diego, Calif.) started the game-winning rally in the bottom of the seventh when she reached on a Babson infield error. Kumar went to second on an infield ground out before being replaced by Huang as a pinch-runner at second base. Huang advanced to third on a Babson infield error and raced home with the game-winning run on Feng's single to center.

MIT will play in a championship game at 2 p.m. on Saturday after Babson faces fifth-seeded Wheaton in an elimination game at 12 p.m. in Cambridge.

GAME NOTES
• Babson is 2-5 against MIT in its last seven games but holds a 47-31 lead all-time against the Engineers in a series that dates back to 1988.
• The Engineers have won eight in a row versus the Beavers in the conference playoffs, which includes five victories by a single run and two in extra innings since 2018. 
• Both Beaver losses to the Engineers this season have been walk-off, one-run affairs.
• Moore extended her hitting streak to 14 games with her team-leading 20th multi-hit game of the season.