REDLANDS, Calif. - Hannah Adams threw a five-hit shutout and Madison Gonzalez was 3-for-4 with three RBI as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps softball team advanced through to Sunday's SCIAC Championship round with a 7-0 win over Chapman on Saturday. 

With the win, CMS now stands at 22-14 overall and 2-0 in the SCIAC Tournament, and will need to win one game tomorrow to earn the SCIAC's bid to the NCAA Championships. Redlands or Chapman will play an elimination game later today, with the winner needing to beat CMS twice tomorrow. 

Kaili Aqui continued her hot hitting by going 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI, one day after a 3-for-4 performance in a 7-6 comeback win over Redlands. Aqui got the Athenas on the board with an RBI single in the third to score the game's first run, scoring Brooke Goodman, who led off with a triple. Aqui stole second and moved to third on a groundout, and then came home on a Gonzalez RBI single to make it 2-0. 

CMS then scored five runs in the fifth to pull away, its second five-run inning of the tournament, after coming back with five in the seventh in the 7-6 Redlands win yesterday. Stevens and Aqui walked to start the inning, and Stevens came home on an error, before Gonzalez stretched the lead to 5-0 with a two-run double. Rachel Sapirstein singled in pinch-runner Sophia Nguyen, and after pinch-runner Ana Federico stole second, Giselle Lai capped off the inning with an RBI single.

Adams then finished off her shutout, allowing just a two-out single in the sixth over the last two innings, which was followed by a strikeout, and then working a 1-2-3 seventh. She allowed just five hits, never more than one in an inning, and struck out four to improve to 10-6 on the year. 

CMS will need to win once tomorrow to win its first SCIAC Tournament title since 2018. The Athenas also made the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team in 2019.