The Hamilton College softball team opened a three-game NESCAC West Division series at Williams Saturday. The host Ephs rallied twice to post an 11-10 extra-inning win.

The Continentals (7-14 overall, 0-4 NESCAC West) led 9-2 in the fifth before Williams came back to force extra innings, tying the score with a home run in the bottom of the seventh. Hamilton took a one-run lead in the eighth but the Ephs (12-9 overall, 9-3 NESCAC West) hit a pair of solo home runs in the bottom of the inning for the walk-off victory.

The game featured seven home runs, including a pair by the Continentals. Kendall Searcy '20 capped Hamilton's five-run third with her first career home run and two innings later Caitlin Berreitter '20 hit her second homer of the season to put the visitors up 9-2.

After Williams drew even with five runs in the sixth and a leadoff home run by Rebecca Duncan in the bottom of the seventh, the Continentals took their final lead in the top of the eighth. Berreitter hit a one-out single and scored on a double by Becca Butler '17. In the Ephs' half of the eighth, Jessica Kim tied the score with a one-out home run and two batters later Mackenzie Murphy hit her second home run of the game to give Williams the win.

Berreitter and Ashleah Yzaguirre '19 both finished with three of Hamilton's 11 hits and scored two runs apiece.

Yzaguirre gave the Continentals their first lead, singling in a third-inning run after two Hamilton runners scored on an infield error. Searcy followed Yzaguirre's RBI hit with a two-run home run to left center.

In the fifth, Yzaguirre's lead-off double kick-started a four-run inning. She scored on a two-out single by Ursula Castiblanco '19 and Hamilton pushed its lead to 9-2 on a run-scoring double off the bat of Emily Fraser '20 and Berreitter's two-run homer.

Williams started its rally in the fifth on Kim's run-scoring grounder and the Ephs added five more runs an inning later. Murphy started the inning with the first of her two solo home runs. Kim singled home a run and Lexi Curt – who hit a two-run home run in the first – drove in a run to close the gap to a run.

The teams conclude their series Sunday with a noon doubleheader.