DARTMOUTH, Mass. – The UMass Dartmouth softball team took down Keene State College on Tuesday evening in the final home Little East Conference (LEC) series of the regular season. Junior
RaeLynn Perregaux walked it off for the Corsairs in game one, 3-2, with an RBI double followed by a three-run blast from sophomore
Lily Routhier to kickstart game two and secure the conference sweep by a final score of 7-1. UMass Dartmouth move to 6-8 in Little East action, and are now 18-14 overall, while the Owls dropped to a 16-17 record on the season.
Keene State grabbed an early 2-0 lead in the opening game of the day after scoring two runs in the top of the third inning. Perregaux cut the visitors lead in half in the bottom of the inning with a single to right field that tagged senior outfielder
Kinu Takasugi home. The junior third baseman drilled the ball to left center field for an RBI double to knot the game up at 2-apeice heading into the last two innings.
First year pitcher
Edy Crawford registered her third strikeout of the contest to retire the side from the top of the sixth. The Corsairs defense held the Owls bats in the top of the seventh to keep the game tied at 2-2. In the bottom of the seventh, Takasugi advanced into scoring position thanks to a sacrifice bunt by senior
Jillian Walsh. Perregaux then doubled to center field for the walk off to defeat the Owls 3-2 in game one.
Perregaux went 3-for-4 at the plate with all three runs batted in for the Corsairs along with a pair of doubles. Takasugi had a 2-for-3 performance scoring all three runs while Walsh, junior
Olivia Silva, and junior
Sydney Menz each recorded one hit apiece in the victory.
Crawford picked up her ninth win in the circle after throwing a complete game allowing one earned run and three hits. She struck out three batters and surrendered one walk on 97 total pitches.
In game two, Routhier got the bats going in the first inning with a three-run blast to left field to give UMass Dartmouth the quick 3-0 edge. Takasugi posted an RBI single in the bottom of the second inning to bring senior shortstop
Larissa Piessens home and extend the Corsairs advantage to 4-0. Keene State got on the scoreboard in the fifth inning to make it a 4-1 game, but sophomore
Liv Matos responded by lacing the ball to deep right field for a two-RBI triple. Perregaux added a late run in the bottom of the sixth after notching her third double of the series to score sophomore
Chaylin Cruz Salgado and cement the game two win by a final score of 7-1.
Routhier recorded her first collegiate home run as a Corsair with her three-run blast to go along with one run in the game. Matos produced her first career triple with two runs batted in while Perregaux and Takasugi each posted one RBI apiece. Piessens went 2-for-3 at the plate with a run and a double. Cruz Salgado recorded her first double of the season to go along with her 12
th run scored on the year.
Crawford finished the series to earn her 10
th victory of the season and 13
th complete game on the mound. She allowed zero earned runs and one hit on 23 batters faced while posting a pair of punchouts on 66 total pitches.
UMass Dartmouth travels to the University of Southern Maine for their final conference series of the 2025 campaign. The first pitch of the day is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. from Gorham, Maine.
