"It feels like everything's coming together.It's taken us four years, but we're finallythere," Franzese said. "Everybody was hitting theball well. I was really happy for everybody.Everyone was making good contact. Today was agreat day."
It remained a one-run contest until Harvardblew it open in the fifth with five runs on fivehits. Amberg started the affair with a lead-offdouble into the left centerfield gasp, and LaSovagefollowed with a slap-bunt single to short.Franzese's sacrifice bunt up the first-base lineadvanced the runners and brought Abeles to theplate.
Abeles ripped the first pitch she saw up themiddle, and Amberg and LaSovage both came aroundto score. Teller followed with a seeing-eye singleinto right, and sophomore Crystal Springer came into pinch run for her. That is when Read stepped tothe plate and capped off a tremendous afternoon.
Read tagged a pitch over the left-centerfieldwall for a three-run dinger, her second of theday, that put the game out of Holy Cross's reach.
"Terri Teller had a great day; she made it easyby driving in a lot of runs before me," Read said."And [Abeles] showed that the weather wasconducive to hitting home runs--she hit a good oneherself. And [Franzese] was on base all the time.
"As a team, we really hit well. I don't thinkwe've busted out like that for a while. So it feltgood."
"Amazing, amazing, amazing," said