WESTFIELD, Mass. –
Isabella Secaira-Cotto '25 produced at the plate and on the circle for the Wesleyan softball team, leading the Cardinals to a 5-3 game one victory in a Tuesday afternoon doubleheader split at Westfield State. Wesleyan (16-18) dropped game two 4-1 to the Owls (24-11-1).
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Secaira-Cotto's monster game one saw the junior go 3-for-3 at the plate with one home run, one double, 4 RBI, one run scored, and one hit by pitch. Her three-run home run in the 3
rd gave Wesleyan a 5-1 lead and her pitching did the rest. Throwing all seven innings in the circle, Secaira-Cotto allowed just three runs (two earned) with three strikeouts to pick up her ninth win of the season.
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The Cardinals jumped out to an early lead with two runs in the 1
st inning. With runners on second and third,
Molly Lennon '26 came through with an RBI fielder's choice and with two outs, Secaira-Cotto slapped an RBI double through the left side to make it 2-0 Wesleyan.
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The Owls got one run back in the 2
nd inning but Secaira-Cotto helped her own cause with a towering three-run home run that fly about five feet inside the left field foul pole. That bomb represented her second homer of the season.
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Secaira-Cotto continued to battle, holding Westfield without a run and leaving two runners on for the third straight inning. After leaving another two runners on in the 5
th inning, Secaira-Cotto ran into some trouble in the 7
th as Westfield's Alyssa Clark singled to left that scored one on a throwing error. On the next at-bat, Abby Clark knocked an RBI double to left to make it 5-3 Cardinals. With the game-tying run at the plate, Secaira-Cotto finished the job, inducing a ground out to third to seal the Wesleyan victory.
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Wesleyan's bats fell victim to a tremendous pitching display in game two, as Katherine Canty and Stephanie Scoville combined to allow just five hits with one unearned run in the 5-1 win.
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The Cardinals again plated the first run of the game, as
Rebecca Cassel-Siskind '26 ripped an RBI triple to left center, which scored
Waverly Smart '27 all the way from first.
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Ella DeCrescenzo '27 worked a perfect 1
st inning in the circle for Wesleyan and left two runners on in the 2
nd, but the 3
rd inning saw Westfield's Hannah Wodecki hit a two-run shot over the left field fence and Abby Clark came through with an RBI triple to right center that made it 4-1 Owls.
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Kelly Baker '26 came on for DeCrescenzo to finish off the 3
rd inning and went on to throw three more scoreless frames in relief, keeping the Cardinals alive. However, with hits at a premium, the Cardinals managed just one runner in scoring position over the final four innings in the 4-1 defeat.
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Cassel-Siskind went 2-for-4 with 1 RBI in game two, combined with a 2-for-3 outing in game one gave her four hits on the day. Secaira-Cotto singled in game two to give her four hits in a 4-for-6 combined effort in the doubleheader.
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Wesleyan is back on the road on Saturday for the regular season finale in a doubleheader at Williams. One win over the Ephs would guarantee the Cardinals a spot in the 2024 NESCAC Tournament. Â