CLERMONT, Fla.— Junior
Lexi Sealey (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) finished with three hits, including a double and a run scored, and sophomore
Belle DiCampello (Pottstown, Pa.) had two hits, including a triple and two RBI, but the Babson College softball team dropped a pair of games on Friday morning at The Spring Games at Hancock Park.
Babson, which lost twice on the same day for the first time since April 5, 2024, dropped the opener to Coe College (Iowa), 2-0, and fell in the second game to the 13th-ranked University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 7-2. The Beavers are now 4-6 on the season while Coe, which has won seven in a row, is 12-6 overall and UW-Oshkosh won its third straight game to improve to 9-1.
Game 1 – Coe 2, Babson 0
Sealey and junior
Emily Walsh (Flemington, N.J.) both went 2-for-3 for the Beavers and Walsh cracked a two-base hit. DiCampello and junior
Charlotte Raymond (Wrentham, Mass.) had singles, while first-year pitcher
Anna Ziccardi (Metuchen, N.J.) allowed just two runs on seven hits in the circle with three strikeouts in the loss.
Junior Natalie Hitt (Davenport, Iowa) scattered six hits and struck out six for Coe while going 2-for-3 at the plate with a double and an RBI. She improved to 7-2 with her second shutout of the season. Senior Maddie Harris (Peosta, Iowa) collected three hits with a double and a run scored and first-year Irelynd Cejka (Prairie Du Chien, Wisc.) had a hit and an RBI.
The Kohawks scored their first run in the fourth inning on Hitt's two-out RBI double to left center, and tacked on another run in the sixth when Harris led off with a double to left and scored on Cejka's single to center.
Babson stranded two runners in scoring position in the first and third innings before Hitt retired nine straight Beaver hitters. DiCampello singled with one out in the sixth inning but was thrown out stealing, and the Beavers could not capitalize on Raymond's lead-off single in the seventh.
Game 2 – No. 13 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 7, Babson 2
DiCampello belted a two-run triple, Sealey had a double, and Raymond and junior
Devin McCall (Virginia Beach, Va.) each had a single as the Green and White managed just four hits. First-year
Anna Topel (Oak Park, Ill.) suffered the loss in the circle after giving up five runs in five innings while striking out two.
Junior Amanda Martineck (Frankfort, Ill.) had two hits and three RBI to lead the Titans. Sophomore Olivia Ullman (Denmark, Wis.) and first-years Emma Bohn (Rosendale, Wis.) and Brianne Lopez (Volo, Ill.) all had two hits apiece, and Lopez, sophomore Olivia Baugnet (De Pere, Wis.) and junior Sarah Hammerton (Appleton, Wis.) each knocked in a run. First-year Kiran Sanford (Two Rivers, Wis.) went the distance in the circle, giving up two runs on four hits and fanning seven.
The teams traded two runs each in the first inning. Oshkosh struck first when Ullman and Bohn led off with singles and after a sac bunt, Martineck delivered a two-run single up the middle. The Beavers countered in the bottom half of the inning when Sealy ripped a double down the right field line, Raymond singled up the middle, and DiCampello brought them both home on a triple to right.
It stayed 2-2 until the fifth inning when the Titans scored three runs. Martineck and Lopez had RBI singles and another run scored on a fielder's choice. Oshkosh added two unearned runs in the sixth inning following a pair of Babson errors.
The Beavers stranded two runners in the second inning, and Sanford retired 12 in a row from the second to the sixth inning and then got the last five batters she faced.
Babson will wrap up its Florida trip on Saturday at Legends Way in Clermont, facing Colby at 10 a.m. and George Fix at 12:15 p.m.
GAME NOTES
• Babson's game vs. Coe was the first career meeting between the two schools, and the Beavers are now 1-1 all-time against Wisconsin-Oshkosh in a series that dates back to 2018.
• Sealey has hit safely in seven straight games and leads the team with 13 hits, four doubles and a .419 batting average.
• DiCampello has a five-game hitting streak and is batting .379 in 10 games in Florida this spring.
• The Beavers are 12-9 in Florida over the last two seasons.