Saturday, April 25 - Sunday, April 26, 1998 in Medford, Massachusetts
Schedule of Games
Time Game Field Home Team Visiting Team Result
9:30 1 1 Tufts Curry Tufts 10-1
12:00 2 1 Tufts Amherst Amherst 10-1
12:00 3 2 Curry Colby Colby 7-3
2:00 4 1 Tufts Colby Tufts 13-0
2:00 5 2 Amherst Curry Amherst 5-1
4:00 6 1 Colby Amherst Amherst 9-1
Day Two Seeds
1. Amherst (3-0)
2. Tufts (2-1)
3. Colby (1-2)
4. Curry (0-3)
9:30 7 1 Tufts Colby Tufts 8-7
11:30 8 1 Amherst Curry Amherst 4-3
3:00 9 2 Colby Curry Curry 8-3, THIRD PLACE GAME
3:00 10 1 Tufts Amherst Tufts 6-4, CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Saturday, April 25, 1998: Game 2
1 2 3 4 5 -- R H E
AMHERST (21-4) 2 0 2 6 0 -- 10 7 0
Tufts (21-10) 1 0 0 0 0 -- 1 4 2
Allison Schwarting and Meghan Nelson. Jill McCoy, Stephanie Gale (4) and Randee McArdle.
WP - Schwarting (13-3). LP - McCoy (8-5).
Highlights: Amherst sophomore P Allison Schwarting (Los Angeles, CA) 2-for-4, 1 run; Amherst freshman C Meghan Nelson (Middletown, CT) 2-for-3, 4 RBI, 1 run.
Saturday, April 25, 1998: Game 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -- R H E
Curry (15-18) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 -- 1 1 3
AMHERST (22-4) 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 -- 5 10 2
Leanne Tarkanian and Tricia Larivee. Jen Shea and Meghan Nelson.
WP - Shea (9-1). LP - Tarkanian (6-7).
Highlights: Amherst junior OF Vicki Gonzalez (Miami, FL) 3-for-3, 2 runs.
Saturday, April 25, 1998: Game 6
1 2 3 4 5 -- R H E
Colby (12-18) 0 0 1 0 0 -- 1 3 2
AMHERST (23-4) 4 0 0 3 2 -- 9 9 1
Brooke Fitzsimmons and Katie Mangan. Jen Shea, Allison Schwarting (5) and Meghan Nelson.
WP - Shea (10-1). LP - Fitzsimmons.
Sunday, April 26, 1998: Game 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -- R H E
Curry (15-19) 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 -- 3 4 5
Amherst (24-4) 1 1 0 0 0 2 x -- 4 7 3
Michelle Maiocca and Tricia Larivee. Jen Shea, Allison Schwarting (6) and Meghan Nelson.
WP - Schwarting (14-3). LP - Maiocca (8-9).
Highlights: Amherst's Allison Schwarting (Los Angeles, CA) line drive to centerfield in the bottom of the sixth was misplayed into a four-base error that brought home two runs to give the Lord Jeffs a come-from-behind win.
Sunday, April 26, 1998: Game 10, Championship
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -- R H E
Tufts (24-10) 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 -- 6 9 3
Amherst (24-5) 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 -- 4 6 2
Stephanie Gale and Randee McArdle. Allison Schwarting and Meghan Nelson.
WP - Gale (9-4). LP - Schwarting (14-4).
Highlights: Tufts senior co-captain and 1B Jen O'Malley (Franklin, MA) went 3-for-4 with two RBI to lead the Jumbos to the Championship in their own invitational. Amherst threatened with four runs in the bottom of the fifth, three unearned. Amherst sophomore SS Liza Feldman (Sudbury, MA) and sophomore 1B Darcy Sweeney (Keene, NH) each had two hits.
