Softball

NESCAC Softball Weekly Release - April 28, 2025

NESCAC Player of the Week
Sydney Fleming – Williams – Sr. – C – Burlingame, Calif.
Fleming went 10-of-20 batting, with 14 RBIs, six home runs and six runs scored, during a 5-2 week for the Ephs. The senior recorded three multi-hit games and recorded at least one home run in five of the seven games. Fleming went 2-for-3, with three RBI, two home runs, and two runs scored, in a 13-4 Game 1 victory over Colby on Sunday.
 
NESCAC Pitcher of the Week
Sophia DiCocco – Tufts – Gr. – P – Bozrah, Conn.
DiCocco was outstanding in an undefeated week for the Jumbos. In three games (two starts), she was 3-0 with a 0.38 earned run average and allowed just seven hits and one walk in her 18.1 innings with 14 K's. DiCocco entered the Endicott game in relief on Wednesday and retired all 13 batters she faced (4.1 innings). In her next appearance, a start against Hamilton on Friday, she had a no-hitter through 6.2 innings. Combined between the Endicott and Hamilton games, she did not allow a hit for 11 straight innings. The graduate student finished with a one-hit shutout against Hamilton. Earlier in the week DiCocco allowed just one earned run in seven innings for a win over Babson.
  
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst –  Dani Torres Werra (Merced, Calif.) batted .412, with three of her seven hits being for extra bases, in six games last week. The senior posted an on-base percentage of .474 and slugged .647 while knocking in eight runs and scoring five. Torres Werra walked twice and stole one base. She was the lynchpin in a 10-9 win over Hamilton in which the Mammoths trailed 9-1 in the fifth inning. Torres Werra had a three-run, bases-clearing triple to make it 9-5, then singled home a run in the bottom of the seventh to make it 9-8 before scoring the tying run moments later. 
 
 Bates – Isabel Bettencourt (Peabody, Mass.) had a pair of multi-hit games last week, including a 2-for-3 performance with an RBI in a 3-2 win over Bowdoin. The sophomore leads the Bobcats with a 1.037 OPS on the season … Delaney Rankin (Harrison, Maine) pitched 22 innings last week and allowed just four runs, three earned, as she picked up two wins in the circle for the Bobcats. Her week included a nine-inning complete game in a 2-1 win over Babson, where the Beavers' lone run was unearned. The junior also beat Bowdoin for her 11th win of the season. Rankin's ERA is now 1.27 in 105 innings pitched.

Bowdoin – Junior Chloe Garcia (Bakersfield, Calif.) went 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBI in a game two win over Bates on Friday.
 
Colby – Junior Victoria Ramirez (Ontario, Calif.) recorded two three-hit games last weekend.  The junior went 3-for-5 in Saturday's come-from-behind win over Middlebury, with RBI singles in both the sixth and seventh innings.  In Sunday's opener at Williams, Ramirez's 3-for-3 effort was her third three-hit conference game of the season … Ashley Correll (Marlborough, Mass.) earned her fifth win of the season in a 6-4 victory over Middlebury Saturday.  The sophomore hurled a complete game, scattering seven hits and striking out three.  
 
Hamilton – Alexis Mayer (Woodcliff Lake, NJ.) hit .353 with seven RBI and four runs scored in six games. Mayer went 2-for-3 with three RBI in an 8-0 win in Game 2 at Amherst. The junior hit a two-run homer and finished with three RBI again in a 10-9 setback in the opener at Amherst. Mayer's triple with two out in the top of the seventh inning broke up a no-hitter in a 4-0 setback at Tufts … Yael Everett (Ridgefield, Conn.) posted a 3.18 ERA in five appearances covering 11 innings. Everett picked up the decision in both wins for the Continentals. The first-year pitched a complete game and allowed two hits in Hamilton's 8-0 victory in five innings at Amherst. The shutout was Everett's first. Everett allowed one run over the final three innings as the Continentals edged SUNY Oneonta 6-5. Everett also tossed two shutout innings of relief in a 2-1 setback at Tufts.
 
Middlebury – Junior Kristyn Carroll (Kinnelon, N.J.) led the offensive charge in a 1-1 weekend for the Panthers, pacing the team in batting average (.667), hits (4), and on-base percentage (.750). During the doubleheader against Colby, Carroll surpassed Kimber Sable ‘14 in career walks (61) and Middlebury Hall of Famer Jessa Hoffman ‘13 for single-season hits with 59 … McKenna Lont (Wyckoff, N.J.) was solid in the circle in her lone appearance for Middlebury. The junior tallied her team-leading fifth complete game, giving up six hits and striking out four over seven innings of work in a 4-2 victory over Colby. The triumph was also the 25th in her career. Lont helped her cause at the plate, tallying two hits alongside an RBI and a run scored.

Tufts – Keriann Slayton (Mechanicsville, Va.) hit .412 with four RBI and two runs scored in a 4-0 week for the Jumbos. Her two-run single in the third inning of Game 1 against Hamilton on Friday opened up a 3-0 Jumbo lead. The senior also had RBIs in non-conference wins over Babson College and Endicott College earlier in the week. Slayton finished the Endicott game on Wednesday 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI.

Wesleyan – Jacelyn Lees (Watauga, Texas) continues to shine this season, tossing back-to-back complete game shutouts last week to extend her streak of consecutive innings without allowing an earned run to 29.1 innings. She opened with a complete-game five-hitter, allowing no walks and striking out five in a 6-0 win over Western Connecticut. Lees then held Trinity scoreless in a complete game effort, striking out three as Wesleyan improved to 10-6 in NESCAC play. Lees has six shutouts on the season, including three in her past four starts. 
 
Williams – Sadie Leonard (Tiburon, Calif.) went 3-0 this past week for the Ephs. The junior earned the complete-game, seven-inning win with 12 strikeouts in a 9-2 victory in Game 1 against Amherst on Friday. Leonard also earned the complete-game, five-inning victory with 11 strikeouts during a 9-1 Game 2 triumph over visiting Colby on Sunday.