![Nuns from Jangchub Choeling Nunnery in Mundgod, South India, begin the creation of the Medicine Buddha Sand Mandala at the Peter J. Gomes Chapel in Lewiston, Maine, as part of the Jangchub Jamtse Tour, on June 24, 2024. The mandala is part of the Jangchub Jamtse Tour and aims to generate positive energy and mend physical, emotional, spiritual, and environmental ailments.The event is open to the public until June 28, 2024. (Theophil Syslo | Bates College)](https://www.bates.edu/news/files/2024/06/4x6_-200x133.webp)
In softball, the art of slap hitting involves getting a running start and, in the words of 19th-century baseball star “Wee Willie” Keeler, “hitting ’em where they ain’t.”
Very few do it better than Caroline Bass ’21 of Newton, Mass., and Andrea Russo ’19 of Cheshire, Conn.
Russo has 120 career hits entering Friday afternoon’s NESCAC tournament game against Amherst — just seven shy of the Bates career hits record.
Meanwhile, this year Bass broke the program records for hits and runs scored in a single season.
Their prowess at the top of the order has propelled Bates to a program-record 20 wins this season.