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Records, milestones as softball finishes Florida trip with two wins

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The Hamilton College softball team wrapped up its spring trip by sweeping a pair of games in Clermont, Fla., Tuesday, beating Oberlin College 12-10 and topping College of St. Benedict 6-4. The Continentals, who've won six of seven to improve to 7-8 on the season, hit a school-record four home runs against Oberlin and saw Olivia Gozdz '16 become the program's career hit leader in the win over the Blazers.

Gozdz collected five hits in the two games, raising her career total to 139 and passing Amber O'Connor '09 (138 hits from 2006 to 2009) for the program's all-time record. The milestone hit came on a run-scoring double that capped a three-run rally in the sixth inning that put the Continentals ahead to stay in the second game.

After the Blazers (7-3 overall) came all the way back from a 3-0 deficit to take a 4-3 lead into the sixth inning, the Continentals rallied for three two-out runs to go ahead for good.

Delaney Nicol '19 singled to lead off the sixth and Phoebe Collins '18 reached on an infield error. St. Benedict struck out the next two Hamilton hitters but Ashleah Yzaguirre '19 doubled in the tying and go-ahead runs. She scored the game's final run on Gozdz record-breaking hit.

Zoe Singer '18 earned the win in relief, setting down the Blazers in the final two innings. She worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the sixth, fielding a comebacker and starting a 1-2-3 double play.

The Continentals took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first on a pair of two-out run-scoring hits. Daphne Assimakopoulos '17 singled home Yzaguirre and Nicol followed with a double to bring in Assimakopoulos and Gozdz.

Gozdz had three of Hamilton's 10 hits, finishing with a single, double and triple.

Singer (4-3) and starter Molly Leitner '19 held the Blazers to seven hits. Emilie Antony had two.

Hamilton's record-setting home run barrage in the day's first game helped the Continentals erase a 9-3 deficit against Oberlin. The Yeowomen scored three times in the third, fourth and fifth innings before the Continentals exploded for nine runs over their final two at bats.

Assimakopoulos hit a two-run home run in Hamilton's four-run fifth and Nicol provided the big blow an inning later, capping a five-run outburst with a two-out grand slam that put Hamilton on top.

A one-out single by Liz Brautigam '19 started the fifth for Hamilton and two batters later a misplayed single to right off the bat of Ursula Castiblanco '19 pulled Hamilton to 9-4. She scored on Nicol's single up the middle and Assimakopoulos followed with her fourth career home run to cut Oberlin's lead to 9-7.

Yzaguirre singled home Jodi Weiss '19 in the sixth and Brautigam and Castiblanco followed with singles to load the bases. Nicol followed with the first home run of her collegiate career, a shot to left field.

The Continentals used a pair of home runs to take a 3-0 first-inning lead. Yzaguirre, who had three hits on the day, led off by blasting her first career home run down the left field line and Castiblanco followed Gozdz' one-out triple with her second homer of the season. She leads the team with 15 runs batted in.

The Yeowomen scored nine runs over the middle innings, with Grace Evans collecting RBI hits to plate the first and last runs of that stretch. Tori Popalski doubled in a pair of runs.

Evans and Arianna Enzerink both had two of Oberlin's nine hits. Emma Downing scored two runs and drove in two others for the Yeowomen (0-11).

Brautigam and Castiblanco had three hits apiece.

Singer was the winner out of the bullpen in Tuesday's first game as well. She allowed two hits and an unearned run in picking up the last seven outs.

The Continentals are idle until Friday, April 1 when they open a three-game NESCAC West Division series at Wesleyan University.  

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