Box Score MINNEOLA, Fla. – Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore Emily Komornik (Shelton) shut out 2013 NCAA Division III national champion Tufts University through five innings before the Jumbos scored all of their runs in their last two at-bats in a 7-2 victory Sunday evening at the National Training Center.
At right: Emily Komornik
In her first start of the season, Komornik (0-1) shut out No. 1 nationally-ranked Tufts (3-1) on five hits through five innings of a scoreless contest. She was lifted after allowing a bunt single and an RBI double to open the sixth. Tufts scored three times in the sixth and four times in the seventh against four Eastern pitchers.
Trailing 3-0, Eastern (1-5) broke through against All-America junior Allyson Fournier for two runs in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI double by junior Sam Rossetti (Shelton) which plated sophomore Alyssa Hancock (Waterford) – who reached on a walk -- and run-scoring single by junior Shannon Martin (Wethersfield).
Tufts was able to secure the victory when freshman Cassie Ruscz belted a grand slam with no one out in the seventh inning to provide the Jumbos with a five-run cushion.
Senior Mattie Brett (Waterford) moved within one of her 100th hit in her three-year Eastern career (she had 55 hits as a freshman in 2011 at Endicott) with a seventh-inning double.
Fournier (2-0) fanned 12 in the route-going performance to return Tufts to the win column after it was stunned earlier in the dady by Worcester State, 7-4. The Jumbos won 46 and lost three a year ago.
Eastern faces Springfield College in a 9 a.m. doubleheader Monday at Minneola.
