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Softball Dani Pluchinsky '21

Ithaca vs Wheaton, May 11, 1997

The Ithaca College softball team lost to Wheaton College in the championship game of the NCAA Northeast Regional, losing the contest by a score of 5-3. 
 
Wheaton scored one run in each of the second and third innings to take a 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Bombers took a 3-2 lead as seniors Mary Ellen Hoffman and Nicki Swan recorded RBIs. Wheaton scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning to take the 5-3 lead. 
 
Hoffman went 2-for-3 on the day and Swan went 2-for-3 as well. Freshman Vanessa Montorsi went 1-for-4 with one run scored. 
 
Swan pitched the full game, giving up 10 hits and striking out three batters. The Bombers finish the season with a 30-16 record, the most wins the program has ever had in a season.