The Hamilton College Continentals split a doubleheader against the Trinity College Bantams in Hartford, Conn., on Saturday afternoon. Hamilton won the first game 9-7 before the Bantams tied the second game in the bottom of the seventh inning and took the 5-4 win in extra innings.

The Continentals (8-12 overall) racked up 24 hits with 10 of those hits going for extra bases. Trinity (12-6) had won four straight games before the Continentals arrived in Hartford. Hamilton has a 1-2 record in the NESCAC West Division while the Bantams have a 3-0 record in the NESCAC East Division.

The Continentals return home on Tuesday, April 10 for a non-conference doubleheader against local rival Utica College at 3:30 p.m.

Game One: Hamilton 9, Trinity 7

Caitlin Berreitter '20 was unstoppable in the first game, going 4-for-4 with four doubles, one run batted in, one walk, one stolen base and three runs scored. Kendall Searcy '20 went 3-for-5 with two runs batted in, and Zoe Singer '18 had two hits with a double and an RBI.

Claire O'Brien '21 started in the pitching circle for the Continentals and issued two strikeouts. O'Brien allowed four hits, four runs and four walks through 3.2 innings of work. Singer allowed six hits and three runs through three innings and improved her record to 2-3. Dez DePaulis '19 entered the game in the bottom of the seventh with two runners on base and retired the only batter she faced for her second career save.

Erica Merullo totaled four hits with a double and three RBIs for Trinity. Two hits apiece came from Katie Haghdan and Samantha Witmer, and Witmer scored three runs. Rachael Smith pitched five innings and gave up four earned runs on nine hits and two walks.

Berreitter led off with a double in the top of the first inning and gave Hamilton a 1-0 lead after stealing third base and a run-scoring single by Searcy. Trinity's Merullo responded with her own leadoff hit and stole two bases before Haghdan hit a one-out single for her first RBI of the day. The Bantams left runners stranded on second and third base when Emily Fraser '20 grabbed a fly ball in center field and Helen Lin '19 threw out the runner at first base.

Trinity scored one run in the second inning and held a 2-1 lead after three innings before Hamilton scored three runs in the fourth, one in the fifth, two in the sixth and two in the seventh.

The Continentals had four hits in the top of the fourth inning to take a 4-2 lead. Lin led off with a single and Jodi Weiss '19 earned a one-out walk to put two runners on for Singer who hit a run-scoring double. Ashleah Yzaguirre '19 followed with a sacrifice fly to center field to score Weiss, and Singer scored on a single by Phoebe Collins '18.

The Bantams scored two runs in the bottom half of the fourth to tie the score at 4-4, but Hamilton took the lead for good in the fifth inning, scoring one run off two Trinity errors.

Hamilton tacked on two insurance runs in the seventh when Collins walked, Berreitter hit her fourth double and Searcy singled. Trinity had a chance at a comeback in the home half of the inning. Following a leadoff double by Haghdan and two groundouts, the Bantams compiled four hits and three runs before Hamilton's DePaulis forced a flyout to center field to end the game.

Game Two: Trinity 5, Hamilton 4 (8 innings)

Trinity scored one run in the bottom half of the seventh inning to tie the score at 3-3 and force extra innings. Nikki Anderson hit a one-out double to get things started for the Bantams and Merullo drove in Anderson after she was given a triple when Hamilton's Weiss narrowly missed the ball as she attempted a diving catch in right field. The Bantams had a chance to end the game in seventh when Michelle Treglia hit a grounder to Collins at second base, but Hamilton's senior captain rocketed a throw to home and Yzaguirre applied the swipe tag on Merullo at the plate.

The Bantams completed the comeback victory in extra innings when they outscored Hamilton 2-1 in the eighth. Weiss did her job in Hamilton's half of the eighth inning when she smashed a leadoff triple and then scored when Caroline Chivily '19 reached first base on an error. Hamilton had the 4-3 edge going into the bottom of the eighth, but the Bantams scored two runs off three hits, one walk and one error to win the game.

Weiss scored two runs for Hamilton as she finished 2-for-4 with a double and a triple. Collins went 2-for-3 with one walk and a stolen base, Lin smashed a double, and Liz Brautigam '19, Berreitter and Fraser all added two hits.

Collins and Weiss not only produced at the plate for the Continentals, but they both pulled off inning-ending double plays in the field. In the bottom of the third the Bantams had scored one run and were threatening again with the bases loaded and one out as Collins fielded a grounder, tagged out the runner heading to second and then threw to first for the third out to maintain Hamilton's 2-1 lead. With the score tied 2-2 in the fifth inning, it was Weiss's turn when she made a catch in right field for out number two and then threw a dart to Berreitter at third base to tag out the runner trying to advance from second.

Berreitter's five doubles and six hits on the day increases her season totals to 10 and 29, respectively, skyrocketing her to the top of the NESCAC leaderboard in both categories. As a unit, Hamilton is third in the conference with 38 doubles this season.