YSCC Playoffs Loom on Horizon

By The Beacon Staff

Since the last Beacon, the SMCC Seawolves softball team has been scorching the base paths up on the softball diamond, compiling a nine-and-two record while outscoring their opponents 106–47. Seven times the Lady Wolves have scored in the double figures, as the highest run total of the spring season topped out at 21 runs against Massasoit Community College on April 17.

As a team, the Lady Wolves have sustained a .384 batting average, a .443 on base percentage and a .527 slugging percentage, and have gone yard six times over the course of the 15 games they have played in the spring season. Amazingly, the Wolves have only hit into one double play, while stealing 38 bases and being caught only four times over the course of all the games they have played.

In this past Sunday’s home action, the Wolves split a double-header against Dean College, winning the first game 10 to 6 and dropping the second game 6 to 3. Sarah Guimond took to the mound for the Lady Wolves in the first game, facing 33 batters. Guimond would pitch the game in its entirety, allowing eight hits, while fanning 10.

The game opened with Dean College getting on the big board first and the Wolves answering in the bottom of the first inning, knotting the score at 1 apiece. The second and third innings would see the Lady Wolves plate four runs in each inning, building a lead that Dean College would never threaten.

The Lady Wolves would get to the plate 35 times, with Kristen Mackenzie stepping into the batter’s box five times and collecting four hits, while circling the bases three times and collecting four runs batted in. Kahli Philibote and Samantha Rioux would have four plate appearances, score twice each and collect one hit each. Lady Seawolf Emma Burns would swipe two bases; Samantha Rioux stole one.

The second game saw a different scenario pan out: SMCC would get on the big board first in the second inning scoring once. Dean would answer, plating two runs in the third inning; the Lady Wolves would respond in the bottom of the third and plate one more run in the forth inning to take a one-run lead, 3 to 2. The scoring for the game would be finalized in the top of the fifth inning, as Dean would score four times, securing the away win.