Springfield, Mass. – May 8, 2026 – The Springfield College softball team saw its 2026 season come to a close after falling 2-1 to seventh-seeded Coast Guard in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament elimination game on Friday afternoon.
Earlier in the day Springfield staved off elimination by defeating fifth-seeded Wellesley College, 6-0, before the Pride fell to seventh-seeded Coast Guard, 2-1, in the final game of the afternoon. Springfield sees its season end at 27-14, while the Bears advance to tomorrow's game against top-seeded WPI, which lost to MIT in the winner's bracket this afternoon in Worcester,
Kate Katsetos (Brewster, N.Y.),
Reilly Hunter (Wallingford, Conn.) and
Carissa Pecchia (Mamaroneck, N.Y.) combined for ten of Springfield's 18 hits and four of Springfield's five RBI between the two games. Meanwhile the pitching duo of
Amelia DeRosa (Miller Place, N.Y.) and
Julia Rimshnick (Staten Island, N.Y.) combined to throw 14 innings, eight strikeouts and allowed just two total runs.
Springfield 6, Wellesley 0
Katsetos put Springfield ahead 2-0 in the bottom of the first inning as she drove in both Pecchia and DeRosa. An RBI single to left in the fourth by Pecchia extended Springfield's lead to three before a sacrifice fly by
Haley Ball (Westbrook, Maine) in the fifth made it 4-0.
The Pride put the game out of reach with a pair of insurance runs in the sixth as Hunter drove in
Taylor Falotico (Windsor, Conn.) on a double to the gap before Pecchia capped the scored with a single to left.
DeRosa was stellar in the circle going the distance only allowing three hits to Wellesley. The senior only struck out three and allowed just one walk to the 25 batters she faced and picked up her 17th win of the spring.
Coast Guard 2, Springfield 1
Springfield scored its lone run of the game in the bottom of the second on a pair of wild pitches as Katsetos came across to score for the Pride.
It was a pitchers dual the whole way as Dana Walker and Rimshnick held the game to a 1-0 differential. There were only five combined hits through five innings before Coast Guard scored its runs in the top of the sixth. Springfield nearly had its second run of the game in the bottom of the fifth, but a diving catch at the warning track by Abrianna Schmutz kept the game at 1-0.
Rimshnick walked the lead off batter before Walker drilled a single up the middle and Maura Murphy moved both runners into scoring position on a sac bunt. Zoey Lynn then belted the first pitch she saw up the middle scoring both Hayden Reilly and Walker for the 2-1 lead.
DeRosa came in to pitch and got the Pride out of the jam and held Coast Guard scoreless in the seventh, but Walker was just as impressive allowing just single hits in the sixth and the seventh in addition to a pair of strikeouts in the seventh to punch the Bears ticket to Saturday's elimination game against WPI.
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