Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - The Smith College softball team fought to the end but was unable to prevail in extra innings of game one as Amherst College picked up two wins Wednesday afternoon. The Purple and White escaped with a 3-2 nine inning win in game one, and took the nightcap, 5-3, as the game ended in the sixth inning.

Smith drops to 8-14 overall while Amherst improves to 15-5.

Game 1: Amherst 3 Smith 2 (9 Innings)

The game began as a pitchers duel as the game remained scoreless until the fifth inning when Allison Snyder (Succasunna, N.J./Roxbury)'s single to left scored Kristina Gaffny (Reading, Mass./Austin Prep). 

Amherst answered in the sixth as Sammy Salustri's single up the middle allowed Julia Turner to cross home plate.

In extras, Turner scored her second run of the game on a single to left by Alena Marovits to give the visitors a 2-1 lead, but Smith would not go down without a fight as Kushner's single scored Snyder. 

An Amherst run in the top of the ninth proved to be the game-winner as the Pioneers were unable to bat Caroline Eyman (Bethlehem, N.H./Profile) in from third base.

Natalie Burchat (Shrewsbury, Mass./Shrewsbury) took the loss as the junior pitched a complete game, allowing three runs (one earned) on 10 hits with two strikeouts and one walk. Caroline Kushner (Cheshire, Conn./Cheshire) and Alyssa Pioggia (East Longmeadow, Mass./East Longmeadow) each went 2-for-4. 

Game 2: Amherst 5 Smith 3 (6 Innings)

Amherst jumped out to a 3-0 lead in their half of the third inning when Marovitz's two run double to center field scored Brianna Cook and Salustri. The Purple and White added on one more in the third when Marovitz scored on Lauren Tuiskula's single. 

With Lydia DeAngelo (Portsmouth, R.I./Moses Brown School) on first base for the Pioneers, Snyder blasted a bomb to deep center to cut the deficit to 3-2. 

Amherst grabbed two more runs in the fourth as Turner's triple brought in two of her teammates for a 5-2 advantage. 

An error by the Amherst catcher allowed Rowan Turner (Prairie Village, Kan./Shawnee Mission East) to score but the Pioneers' chances for a comeback fell short as the game ended in six innings. 

Turner struck out seven for Smith with no walks in six innings of work and also helped her cause at the plate, going 2-for-3. Snyder led the Pioneers with two RBI in the loss. 

The Pioneers return to NEWMAC play on Friday when they travel to WPI for a 3:00 p.m. start.