NEWTON, MA - St. Joe's defeated Emerson College 3-0 in a loser's bracket game in the GNAC Softball Tournament on Saturday. Starting pitcher SO Christy Wezowicz (Granville, MA) allowed just two hits in the shutdown performance to pick up her 11th win of the year and SO Liddy van der Linden (Worcester, MA) went 3-3 with an RBI double in the SJC two-run first inning. St. Joe's will play at 4:00 PM, opponent TBD, in an attempt to make a run from the loser's bracket in the double elimination tourney.

Emerson (2) and St. Joe's (4) combined for just six hits in a game that took barely 90 minutes to complete.

JR Alysn Ludwig (Waldoboro, ME) led off the game with a single and SO Anna Willis (Gorham, ME) followed with a base on balls. With one out, van der Linden sent home Ludwig with a double and Willis scored from third on a wild pitch to provide the Royal Blue with a 2-0 lead.

The pair of runs would prove to be one more than Wezowicz would need to notch the playoff win. After allowing a leadoff single in the second inning, the sophomore righthander was on cruise control and did not allow another Emerson baserunner for the remainder of the game.

St. Joe's added an insurance run in the top of the sixth after SO Jillian Kimball (Albany TWP, ME) doubled and later scored on a FY Alyssa Dunn (Standish, ME) sac bunt to give her team a three-run cushion.

With the win the Lady Monks stay alive in the GNAC Tourney and will play #2 seed Simmons this afternoon.