Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--Junior McKenzie Pezze hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift Western New England to a 6-5 victory over Salve Regina in the second game of a Commonwealth Coast Conference doubleheader at Golden Bear Softball Park on Saturday. The visiting Seahawks, however, took the first game 12-4 in six innings to spoil Senior Day for WNE.

Junior Alexis Bukowski went 2-for-4 with two runs batted in and senior Lauren Zambrano pitched a complete game, striking out six batters in the second contest for CCC-leading 11th win against just one loss. She also widens her conference lead to 123 strikeouts in just 88-2/3 innings.

With one out, junior Heather Fecteau singled through the left side to get the WNE seventh going. Freshman Lindsay Williams took Fecteau's place as a pinch-runner and she advanced to third base after Bukowski doubled to left field. Pezze then sent a towering flyball that was caught in foul territory by the left fielder, who threw home to try to get Williams at home but she scored for the walk-off win.
 
In the third inning, the Golden Bears picked up two quick outs, but the inning was kept alive when sophomore Corianna DeLisi walked and stole second. Senior Samantha Mulhern then singled to right field scoring DeLisi, giving the Golden Bears their first run. After Fecteau reached on a throwing error, Bukowski doubled to center fieldâ€"scoring both runners. It didn't end there for WNE's offensive attack. Pezze singled and sophomore Gabby Lavinio scored Bukowski on a base hit up the middleâ€"extending the lead to 4-0.
 
The Golden Bears picked up another run in the fourth when Mulhern drove in Zambranoâ€"who helped her own cause with a hitâ€"on a sacrifice fly. The score was 5-1.
 
After three runs on three hits, including a home run by Genevieve Benoit, in the top of the sixth, Salve tied the game 5-all in the seventh on an infield single.
 
In the first contest, the Golden Bears put an early run on the board when Bukowski singled to right, scoring Fecteau, but Salve put together a seven-run third inning and beat the Golden Bears by eight runs.
 
Bukowski and Pezze paced the Golden Bears with two hits apiece.
 
The Golden Bears offense came alive in the fifth inning when Bukowski, Pezze, and Lavinio all picked up RBI singles, cutting the deficit to 7-4. Salve scored four times in the sixth inning, putting the game away and taking the first game of the doubleheader.

Western New England returns to the diamond on Sunday (1 p.m.) for a conference doubleheader at Wentworth.

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