SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (May 7, 2016) - The top-seeded Western New England University softball team saw its run in the 2016 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament come to a close with a 2-0 loss to Roger Williams University this morning at Golden Bear Softball Park.
 
Western New England wraps up its season at 23-18, while Roger Williams (24-19) fell to eventual CCC champion Salve Regina, 2-0, in the second game of the day.
 
Today's early contest featured a pitcher's duel between Western New England senior Heidi Grieger (Hyde Park, N.Y.), and Roger Williams senior Meghan Maliga (Suffield, Conn.). Both Grieger and Maliga went the distance, surrendering five hits and no earned runs, but the Hawks capitalized on a Western New England error in the fourth inning to push across the only two runs of the game.
 
Maliga also got the job done at the plate, recording a two-out RBI single in the top of the fourth, while junior Julianne Vesce (Mahwah, N.J.) followed with another run-scoring single. That would be all the offense Roger Williams needed, as Western New England's bats were held in check by Maliga.
 
Junior catcher Corianna DeLisi (Tuxedo, N.Y.) accounted for two of the Golden Bears' five hits with a 2-for-4 effort out of the leadoff spot, while Grieger and classmates Heather Fecteau (Biddeford, Maine) and Alexis Bukowski (Wallingford, Conn.) recorded one single each.