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Box Score 2 Worcester, Mass. –Babson College got a pair of dazzling pitching performances from Kathleen Conway and the visiting Beavers shutout Clark University in a New England Women's And Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) softball twinbill on Wednesday afternoon on O'Brien Field.
Babson took the opener 11-0, then completed the season sweep with an 8-0 decision in the nightcap to improve to 17-8 overall.
Clark, meanwhile, has dropped three of its last four games and now sits at 12-9, including a 4-6 ledger in conference games.
Conway was dominant from the start of game one, fanning the side in the first and getting her first six outs via the strikeout. In fact, of the nine outs she recorded, eight were punchouts.
Babson pushed three runs across in the third, highlighted by a Maya Lacy two-run single.
The Cougars loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the second but Conway was able to record her sixth strikeout to get out of trouble.
The Beavers broke the game open in the fourth when they scored five runs with the big blow coming off of the bat of Ashleigh Phelps who smacked a two-run double to left center.
Babson banged out 16 hits in the opener led by three hits apiece by Lacy, Catie Funk and Lindsey Schmid.
The second game saw Conway continue her dominance to improve to 9-4 in the circle with three more shutout innings in which she struck out five and allowed no hits.
Phelps kickstarted the Beaver offense with a two-run single to left in the first off of Cougar starter Hayley Buckheit (Camden, Maine).
Two more came across the dish in the second when Catie Benoit delivered a two-run single through the right side in the second.
The biggest blow, however, came in the fourth when Emily Morris connected for a three-run homerun to make the score 8-0.
The only Clark player to record a hit in each game was Tatiana Chunis (Sutton, Mass.), while Alyssa Wright (Manchester, N.H.) had the other Cougar hit in game two.
Clark will look to return to the win column on Friday when they play host to Wheaton. First pitch is slated for 3:00 p.m.