Beverly, Mass. – The Endicott softball team improved to 11-5 overall and 5-1 in The Commonwealth Coast Conference (TCCC) play with a double-header sweep of Gordon in its home opener. The Gulls cruised past the Fighting Scots, 15-1, in five innings in game one before an 8-0 win (5 innings) in game two. With the losses, Gordon drops to 4-10 overall and 1-5 in the conference.

Game One Recap: Endicott 15, Gordon 1 (5 Innings)
Game One Boxscore

Senior pitcher Jenna Bortolotti (Milton, Mass.) won her third straight start, sophomore Krista Fales (Melrose, Mass.) was perfect at the plate, and Endicott erupted for 14 runs in the first two innings en route to the big win.

Bortolotti allowed just one run and three hits while striking out four to improve to 5-3 on the season. 

The hosts put six across in the first inning to take command of the game early. Jocelyn Russo (Middletown, Conn.) led off the inning with a single up the middle. One batter later, Jennie Lacolla (Stoneham, Mass.) doubled to deep center to score Russo from first, advanced to third on the throw home, and made a heads up play score moments later. Later in the inning, Fales drove in Nicole Devlin (Dudley, Mass.) and Ashley Wright (Merrimack, N.H.) with a single up the middle. Fales closed out the scoring with a run of her own.

Endicott capitalized on a couple of errors and pieced together a number of timely hits to tack on eight more runs in the second inning. Devlin’s two-RBI double to the center field fence scored Wright and Hayley Hovhanessian (Farmington, Conn.) from second and third, respectively. Fales stepped up to the plate and drove Devlin home with a double of her own. Two batters later, Jesse Bilafer (Concord, Mass.) drove in two with a single down the right field line before Lacolla capped the inning with an RBI single up the middle.

Gordon’s only run of the game came on an infield single by senior Kristen Terry (Chalfont, Pa.) in the top of the third. Terry drove in classmate Amber Harris (Concord, N.H.), who had walked earlier in the inning, to make it 14-1.

Russo drew a walk in the bottom half of the third with the bases loaded to get the run back and finish off game one’s scoring. Bortolotti held the Fighting Scots to just one hit over the final two innings for the win.

Fales finished 3-for-3 with a double and three RBIs while Wright scored three runs for the Gulls.

Game Two Recap: Endicott 9, Gordon 0 (5 Innings)
Game Two Boxscore

Jennie Lacolla (Stoneham, Mass.) picked up her first win as a collegiate pitcher after shutting out Gordon 8-0 in game two of Wednesday’s double-header. Lacolla went the distance, allowing four hits and fanning a pair to move to 1-1 on the season. The Gulls put runs on the board in each of the first three innings and added three in the bottom of the fifth to force the eight-run rule.

Russo led off the bottom of the first with a frozen rope down the right field line before Lacolla helped her cause with a sacrifice fly center field. One inning later, Wright led off with a double to left field and was driven in via a sacrifice fly to shallow left from Devlin.

The Gulls added three more in the bottom of the third to make it 5-0 before the visitors threatened to mount a comeback. 

Gordon loaded the bases with just one out, but Lacolla induced a 6-2-5 double play to end the inning and keep the shutout intact. 

Lacolla and Wright hit back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the fifth before Colleen Martin’s (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) RBI single gave EC a 7-0 lead. Devlin followed with an RBI double down the left field line to score Martin all the way from first and end the game.

Wright finished 3-for-3 with three doubles, two runs, and a pair of RBIs in the win. Devlin was also perfect at the plate, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs for Endicott.

Emily Borden (Vernon, N.J.) led the Fighting Scots with two hits.

Gordon returns to action on Saturday (April 2) for a conference double-header at Wentworth beginning at noon. The Gulls are also active on Saturday when they play host to UNE at noon.