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4
Trinity (Conn.) TRIN 5-3
5
Winner Grinnell College GCSB 4-8
Trinity (Conn.) TRIN
5-3
4
Final
5
Grinnell College GCSB
4-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Trinity (Conn.) TRIN 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4 8 3
Grinnell College GCSB 0 0 0 2 3 0 X 5 7 1

W: Vermeulen, Kathryn (3-3) L: T. Stowers (2-2) S: Kohler, Lane (2)

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Winner Grinnell College GCSB 5-8
8
St. Olaf College STO 3-7
Winner
Grinnell College GCSB
5-8
9
Final
8
St. Olaf College STO
3-7
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Grinnell College GCSB 1 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 9 10 4
St. Olaf College STO 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 0 8 11 3

W: Vermeulen, Kathryn (4-3) L: A. Grismer (0-2)

Taylor Durak

Game Recap: Softball | | Ted Schultz

GC softball team wraps up Florida trip on pair of winning notes

CLERMONT, Fla. - Grinnell College's softball team finished its spring break in style, claiming a pair of wins Friday at Legends Way.
 
Grinnell rallied to defeat Trinity College of Connecticut 5-4 to open the day, and then outlasted St. Olaf College 9-8 in eight innings.
 
With three wins in a row, Grinnell ended the trip to Florida with a 4-5 mark to improve to 5-8 overall.
 
Taylor Durak '24 belted Grinnell's first homer of the season against Trinity while compiling two hits. Kambria Anson '24, who also had two hits, tripled.
 
Grinnell's pitching combo of Kathryn Vermeulen '24 and Lane Kohler '25 kept Trinity off balance by combining for an eight-hitter. Vermeulen, who struck out four batters in 6-1/3 innings, earned the win and Kohler came in for the save.
 
After falling behind 2-0, Grinnell tied it in the fourth with Vermeulen's two-run single. Durak gave the Pioneers a lead they would never relinquish with her solo homer in the fifth, and Anson added a two-run triple.
 
Trinity scored twice in the seventh before Grinnell slammed the door.
 
Grinnell pounded out 10 hits against St. Olaf, including three by Jasmine Oda '25.
 
Durak's RBI double in the first inning put the Pioneers ahead, but St. Olaf went up with two runs in the third. 
 
The Pioneers exploded for seven runs in the fifth. Bases-loaded walks by Emma Nelson '23, Anson and Hannah Dykstra '25 forced across three runs and Alexa Okada '24 reached base on an error to push another run across. Samantha Chu '24 belted a two-run double and Oda added an RBI single to make it an 8-2 lead.
 
St. Olaf crept back, though, scoring a run in the fifth and sixth and four in the seventh to tie things at 8-all.
 
Dykstra had an RBI single in the eighth to score Anson, putting the Pioneers up by a run. The Pioneers shut down the Oles in the bottom of the frame to secure the win.
 
Vermeulen was again the winning pitcher, working the last 1-1/3 innings while striking out one.
 
The Pioneers are back in action Wednesday against Coe College in Cedar Rapids. The first of two games begins at 2 p.m.
 
 
 
 
 
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