GAME RESULT
Massachusetts 4, Saint Louis 3 (8 innings)
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Amherst, Mass. (Sortino Field)
 
THE BASICS
Abby Mallo and Chloe Rhine homered, but Massachusetts scored three late runs to claim a 4-3 Atlantic 10 Conference win over Saint Louis Saturday afternoon.
 
SLU concluded its regular season 30-21 overall and 18-7 in the A-10. The Billikens are in second place, with the final standings to be determined following Sunday's games. The six-team, double-elimination A-10 Championship begins Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
 
Mallo's home run was her 18th of the year, adding to her Saint Louis single-season record. Rhine went deep for a third time this season.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
•Saint Louis took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Natalie Sullivan's two-out double was followed by Mallo's home run.
•Rhine's blast in the second made it 3-0.
•UMass tallied its first run in the third.
•In the sixth, the Minutewomen had runners at second and third with nobody out when Anna Christ relieved starter Taylor Hochman. Christ induced a ground ball that second baseman Abby Ulsas threw to the plate to cut down the runner, and a second grounder produced a 5-4-3 double play.
•UMass scored twice in the seventh to send the game to extra innings and plated the game-winning marker in the eighth.
 
BILLIKEN NOTABLES
•Hochman allowed no earned runs and just five hits in her five innings.
•Ulsas, Karsen Jany and Kendall Johnson each singled.
•The Billikens turned two double plays, giving them 24 this season – just one off the school record of 25 set by the 2023 team.