WELLESLEY, Mass. - The Wheaton College (Mass.) softball team was walked-off for the second time on the day as they fell 2-1 to Wellesley College in game two of Saturday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference doubleheader in Wellesley.

Wheaton fell to 14-13 overall and 4-8 in the NEWMAC after the loss. Wellesley improved to 15-8 overall and 8-4 in the NEWMAC after their second walk-off win on Saturday. The two walk-off wins marked the first time a conference doubleheader has ended with a pair of walk-offs since 2016. 

Wheaton had only four hits in game two, but Wellesley was held to only five. Junior Taylor Barry (Hadley, Mass.) had the only RBI for Wheaton as she finished 1-4. Junior Ella Molinari (Grafton, Mass.) had a hit and came around to score while fellow junior Peyton Blankenheim-Brown (Rio Linda, Calif.) had a hit amidst another complete-game pitching performance. She let up one earned run and struck out a pair in the circle.

Junior Giana Jones (Fairfield, Calif.) had two hits to lead the Blue in quantity, but junior Chiara Lundin (Piedmont, Calif.) had the highest quality hit with a pinch-hit RBI single that tied the game in the bottom of the seventh. First year starting pitcher Lauren Seyller (South Elgin, Ill.) was chased from the game after three complete innings of one-run ball, but junior Sarah Wicker (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) slammed the door shut with five relief innings with only one hit allowed. 

Molinari led off the game with a single, but neither team would earn another hit during the first two innings. Wheaton picked up the next hit of the game in the top of the third inning. Molinari reached base after a walk, setting Barry up in the next at-bat. Barry came out of the gates swinging as she took the first pitch she saw to the wall in left-center field to drive in Molinari for a 1-0 lead. 

Blankenheim-Brown was stunning for the first five innings. She allowed zero hits in the first five frames to preserve the Wheaton lead. A lead-off double for Jones in the bottom of the sixth ended the no-hit hopes, but the Blue failed to produce a run from the hit. Lundin came into the game as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the seventh. With two outs behind her, the Blue needed a hit to score their base runner, and Lundin delivered in her only at-bat of the game. A double to center field tied the game and forced extra-innings for the second time on Saturday.

Molinari walked in the top of the eighth to put two runners on the paths, but Barry was held up at the plate by Wicker as she struck out. Wellesley advanced the runner in the bottom of the eighth with a bunt, putting the winning run 60 feet from home plate. A single to center field ended the game to hand Blankenheim-Brown a heartbreaking losing decision. Wheaton fell to the Blue for the second time in extra innings, 2-1. 

Wheaton comes back to Norton for its next game, a Friday doubleheader versus MIT beginning at 3:00 p.m. Wellesley heads to Milton, Mass. for a pair of non-conference games at Curry College on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.