The Husson Eagles softball team had to wait a couple of days, but would finish off a four game North Atlantic Conference sweep on Tuesday afternoon by winning both ends of a doubleheader by scores of 9-1 and 4-2 over the Terriers of Thomas College in Waterville. With the win in the first game the Eagles set a softball program record with their 15th straight win.
In game one, Husson got a Jen Jones three-run homer in the third inning and never looked back in breaking the school record. Kenzie Dore would add two hits and two RBI, while Jones, Whitney Bess, and Katie Windsor all had two hits a piece. Jones (10-0) was dominant once again in the circle allowing one run on five hits with no walks and nine strikeouts in the complete game 7.0 inning effort. Bailey Dunphy knocked in the Thomas run with an RBI double.
In game two, the Eagles needed a late game rally to make it 16 straight victories. Thomas (7-6, 7-4 North Atlantic Conference), took a 2-0 lead on an RBI single by MacKenzie Oberholze in the first inning and an RBI groundout by Kelsey Currier in the third. Husson got a run back in the top of the fifth when Katie Raymond hit an RBI double, and then took the lead for good an inning later on a RBI double by Dore and a run scoring single from Morgan Coleman to make it 3-2. The visitors added insurance with another RBI double from Dore in the seventh. Dore and Jones both had two hits. Sydney Ames (11-1) got the pitching win after going 5.0 solid innings allowing two runs on five hits, before Jones picked up her second save of the season going the final 2.0 innings.
Husson is now 23-1, 16-0 in NAC play and will try to finish off an unblemished conference mark when they visit Northern Vermont-Johnson on Saturday afternoon for a doubleheader and the last two games of the regular season.
