Box Score ANGOLA, Ind. -- DePauw broke open a 5-5 game with 14 two-out runs in the top of the seventh inning to earn a 19-7 NCAA Division III Softball Tournament victory over Washington & Jefferson Saturday at Trine University.
The loss ends the Presidents' season with a 25-12 record. W&J claimed its third Presidents' Athletic Conference championship and made its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
W&J scored the first two runs of the game in the second inning on
Courtney Roperti's two-out, two-run single. After DePauw plated a run in the third, W&J answered with a
Jen Bahm run-scoring single in the bottom of the third.
Four DePauw runs in the fourth inning put the Presidents behind 5-3, but W&J responded with a two-run double from
Abby Cunningham to tie the game.
Neither team was able to score again until the seventh. DePauw had a runner on second base with two outs and a Presidents' throwing error allowed the first of 14 runs to score. Three different W&J pitchers worked the inning and the Tigers strung together 10 hits to put the game out of reach.
W&J did not give up, scoring twice in the bottom of the seventh. Breana Gleason's RBI double scored Bahm and
Kelsey Cunningham followed with a run-scoring single. Cunningham had two hits during her final game for the Presidents. She finished her career as W&J's all-time leader in hits and runs.
Emily Watson, Bahm and Gleason all added two-hit afternoons.