The Hamilton College softball team rallied to earn a split of Saturday's NESCAC West Division doubleheader against visiting Williams College at Ferguson Field, winning the nightcap 7-3 after dropping game one 13-6. The Continentals scored five sixth-inning runs for the come-from-behind victory in the second game.

Hamilton (10-16, 3-6 NESCAC West) snapped a six-game losing streak with the win, which came in the finale of the three-game weekend series. Williams is second among the "others receiving votes" in the latest national coaches poll.

Four Continental hits and a pair of Williams errors led to the five runs, with the game winner scoring on a suicide squeeze bunt by Liz Brautigam '19. Ursula Castiblanco '19 singled to open the inning, then beat a throw to second on an infield grounder before scoring the tying run on a Williams throwing error. Brautigam's bunt brought in Daphne Assimakopoulos '17 to give the hosts the lead and the Continentals added insurance runs on an RBI double by Becca Butler '17, another infield throwing error and a run-scoring single by Delaney Nicol '19.

The visiting Ephs (22-7, 5-1 NESCAC West) put two runners on in the seventh, but Molly Leitner '19 worked out of the jam to earn the win. She improved to 4-4 on the year, blanking Williams with two innings of hitless relief.

Assimakopoulos and Phoebe Collins '18 hit run-scoring singles to give Hamilton a 2-0 lead after the first inning.

Castiblanco scored twice and Collins had two of Hamilton's six hits. Olivia Gozdz '16 stole a pair of bases, giving her nine in as many attempts this spring.

Williams scored single runs in the second, third and fifth to take a 3-2 lead.

Taylor Donze scored the tying and go-ahead runs for the Ephs, coming in on a third-inning single by Priscilla Pino and putting Williams on top when Melissa Cendejas singled down the right-field line with two outs in the fifth. Pino and Cendejas both singled twice.

In the opener, the Ephs scored 10 times in the final three innings after Hamilton had taken leads of 5-1 and 6-3.

Cendejas started the Ephs' four-run fifth with a two-run double inside the left field line that pulled the Ephs within a run. She scored the tying run on a two-out single up the middle by Mackenzie Murphy. Murphy scored the go-ahead run on a single by Erica Li. 

Murphy hit a two-run single and Casey Pelz doubled in a pair of runs as Williams sealed the win with six runs in the seventh.

Murphy, Amanda Siedem and Li each had three of the Ephs' 17 hits. Li and Alison Michalik hit consecutive triples to open the game and Siedem tripled in a run in the second before scoring on Donze's single.

The first seven Hamilton batters reached base in the first, giving the Continentals a 5-1 lead. After Ashleah Yzaguirre '19 was hit by a pitch and Nicol dropped a single into right field, Gozdz put the hosts ahead with her sixth career home run. Castiblanco walked and scored on a double by Assimakopoulos before singles by Collins and Brautigam capped the outburst.

Castiblanco added an RBI double in the second. Brautigam and Nicol both had two hits. Nicol also scored two runs and stole a pair of bases.

Murphy earned the win in relief, shutting down Hamilton on two hits over the final four innings. She faced just one batter over the minimum and picked up the last 10 outs without allowing a runner past first.

The Continentals are scheduled to host SUNY Oswego Tuesday at 4 p.m. in a non-league doubleheader at Ferguson Field.