NORTON, Mass.—Junior Lexi Sealey (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) drove in a run in each game and classmate Katie Vlacich (Concord, N.H..) tossed a complete-game five hitter in the nightcap to help visiting Babson College split Friday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball doubleheader against Wheaton College at the Clark Softball Field. 

With the split, Babson is now 13-16 overall and 5-5 in conference play, while Wheaton is 14-11 overall and 4-6 in the NEWMAC. 

Game 1: Wheaton 6, Babson 5
Sealey went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI, junior Belle DiCampello (Pottstown, Pa.) and first-year Charly Landow (Wayne, Pa.) each had two hits, and junior Emily Walsh (Flemington, N.J.) tripled, drove in a run and scored twice for the Beavers. Sealey shouldered the loss after allowing two runs, both of them unearned, on two hits over 3.1 innings in the circle. 

Senior Amber Arcand (Milville, Mass.) went 2-for-3 with two RBI, junior Ella Molinari (Grafton, Mass.) doubled twice and classmate Gabby Reinbold (Sharon, Mass.) singled, walked twice and knocked in a pair of runs for the Lyons, who took advantage of eight walks in the victory. Junior Sofia De La Rosa (Middle Village, N.Y.) went the distance in the circle, striking out seven while allowing four earned runs on eight hits to slip to 6-6 on the season. 

DiCampello staked the Green and White to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first but Wheaton answered with a two-out, two-run single by Reinbold and an RBI base hit to right center by Arcand to take a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the inning. Sealey doubled and scored to make it a one-run game in the third, came through with an RBI single in the fourth and then followed an RBI triple by Walsh with a sacrifice fly to bring her home giving the Beavers a 5-4 advantage in the top of the sixth. 

Sealey erased Molinari's leadoff double in the last of the sixth with a line drive double play before running into trouble in the bottom of the seventh as junior Emma Boucher (Derry, N.H.) started the frame with a single before Wheaton drew back-to-back five-pitch walks to load the bases. She fanned first-year Julia Miller (Cheshire, Conn.) for the second out of the inning, but senior Riley Dolan (Coram, N.Y.) reached on a throwing error that allowed both Boucher and Reinbold to score giving the hosts a walk-off win. 

Game 2: Babson 2, Wheaton 1
Walsh and DiCampello both doubled, Landow singled and scored, and Sealey added an RBI in game two for the Beavers, who won despite finishing with just four hits. Vlacich was terrific in the circle, striking out four and allowing just one run on five hits over 7.0 innings to earn her third win of the year.

Arcand was 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Lyons, who wasted a complete-game four-hit effort from senior Peyton Blankenheim-Brown (Rio Linda, Calif.). She struck out one and walked one while allowing a pair of unearned runs to drop to 8-5 on the season. 

Wheaton took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second as Boucher led off with a single and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt before scoring on Arcand's one-out knock to center. Babson responded in the top of the third though, as Landow singled back up the middle and then came all the way around to score on a throwing error that allowed Walsh to get to second. Sophomore Maddy DeLong (Cranford, N.J.) moved her to second with a sacrifice bunt and Sealey brought her home with a sacrifice fly to left for a 2-1 advantage. 

Vlacich was in control throughout her outing as the Lyons had more than one baserunner just once over the final five frames and were unable to advance a runner past second. Blankenheim-Brown retired 12 consecutive batters after the Beavers took the lead in the third before giving up a two-out single to sophomore Samantha Skivo (Conshohocken, Pa.) with two outs in the seventh. 

Both teams are back in action on Saturday beginning at 12 p.m. as Babson hosts Coast Guard, while Wheaton travels to Wellesley. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 30-51 all-time against Wheaton and the teams have split their last five regular season doubleheader going back to 2022.
•    Seven consecutive games and eight of the last nine contests between Babson and the Lyons have been decided by a single run. 
•    The Green and White is 6-7 this spring in games decided by either one or two runs. 
•    Babson is now 7-2 this season when allowing two runs or fewer.