EAST BOSTON – All the scoring game in the first three innings and Suffolk softball never found its way out of a 6-2 hole to fall to Wentworth by a four-run margin in the nightcap of a Commonwealth Coast Conference double feature Sunday afternoon.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 2 | Wentworth 6
RECORDS: Suffolk (17-21, 7-9 CCC) | Wentworth (20-16, 8-6 CCC)  

HOW IT HAPPENED
Errors cost Suffolk three runs as the Leopards leapt out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the second.  

The Rams trimmed the deficit down to one in the home half of the inning. Becky Zellin led off with a single down the right field line and one out later Julia Mills hit a near identical base hit in the same spot to put Rams on the corners. Mills swiped second and a WIT error when Bella Rocha-Medeiros put the ball in play allowed Zellin to score. Small ball by Diana Rucinski allowed Mills come in, which pulled the host within one, 3-2. 

Another three-run inning by the Leopards in the top of the third extend the margin to four. Once again blue-and-gold fielding mishaps paid off for the visitors as they used two hits and three Rams errors to put Suffolk in a 6-2 hole.  

The score hit a standstill from there as neither team took advantage of their base runs.  

Down four in the bottom of the seventh, Jolie Quintana mustered a two-out double in the hopes of sparking a Rams rally. Wentworth had other things in mind though as the Leopards center fielder gloved the ball when Catherine Carignan put it into play to seal Suffolk's setback. 

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Lily Newhall took the loss. She gave up six runs, just one earned, on five hits and one walk. She sat down one batter in 3.0 innings. 
• Ashlyn Conley shoved 4.0 innings of scoreless relief. She let up four hits and fanned two hitters. 
• Jess Rowe logged the win for the Leopards with a two-run (one-earned), seven-hit, three-strikeout, complete-game.  

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Zellin went 3-for-3 with one double and one run scored. 
• Mills, Lily Gustafson, Quintana and Carignan all had one hit. 
• Quintana's hit was a double. 
• Mills scored one run. 
• Diana Rucinski recorded Suffolk's lone RBI.  

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk wraps up the regular-season next Saturday, May 7 in a twinbill against Hartford in Eastie.