UMass down early

Softball
Joe Meloni

With two outs in the bottom of the second inning, Balschmiter drew a ground out from LIU nine hitter Renae Beauchman. But the shaky UMass defense let its ace down. Freshman shortstop Whitney Williams collected the ball easily, but threw low to first baseman Amanda Morin. Morin dropped the ball and it skipped by her allowing two score.

Balschmiter struck out lead-off hitter Randi Gillespie to end the inning, but LIU leads 2-0 going into the UMass half of the inning.