WELLESLEY, MA – Second-seeded Mitchell College (21-14) exploded for four runs with two outs in the second inning and went on to a 9-3 win in New England Collegiate Conference Softball Tournament play.

            Junior Tiffany Person (Waterbury, CT/Crosby) went 2-for-3 with a run scored, two RBI's, a double and a triple, and winning pitcher Tricia Tomaselli (Guilford, CT/Guilford) struck out four in picking up the complete game win.

            Mitchell's Brittany Zaccaria (White Plains, NY/Maria Regina) doubled home a run and scored on a long Lindsey Romagnino (Totowa, NJ/Passaic Valley) home run to left one batter later. After a Nikki Hoxie (Winsted, CT/Gilbert) RBI double, the Mariners took a 5-0 lead after two. 

            Elms senior Jennifer Killion (Cambridge, MA/Mount St. Joseph) singled home a run in the third to get the Blazers on the board before a Leah Spring (South Hadley, MA/South Hadley) two-run triple cut the margin to 5-3 mid-fourth. Mitchell answered with an unearned run in the bottom of the inning, with Person leading off the inning by tripling to the wall in right and scoring on a Blazers error, upping the lead to 6-3.

            The Mariners junior first base player struck again with the bases loaded and one out in the fifth, doubling to center to score a pair as the Mariners increased the lead to 9-3, which would be the final.

            Romagnino homered and drove in four for the Mariners, which advance to play the loser of today's No. 1 Lesley vs. No. 3 Daniel Webster game.

            For the Blazers, Killion went 2-for-4 with an RBI, being named along with Hampton to the All-Tournament Team.