CLAREMONT, Fla. – The Susquehanna softball team split a pair of games on Wednesday, defeating Saint Vincent 9-0 before falling to Emerson 13-7, marking the team's first loss of the season.

Against St. Vincent, freshman Amanda Neveroski (Toms River, N.J./Toms River North) and Anna Heggenstaller (Liverpool, Pa./Greenwood) picked up three hits apiece with Neveroski also driving in a game and career-best five runs. Neveroski would finish the two games with six hits. Classmate Ashley Cole (Carle Place, N.Y./Carle Place) pitched the full seven innings, scattering only one hit while striking out 11, just two shy of her career-best mark of 13 strikeouts.

The Crusaders got on the scoreboard with three runs in the top of the second inning thanks in part to two hits and a fielding error from St. Vincent's.

SU was able to tack on four more runs the very next inning with the help of RBI hits from Claire Hanratty (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) and Neveroski. Two insurance runs in the seventh iced the game for the Crusaders.

Runs were not hard to come by in game two vs. Emerson but unfortunately seven runs by SU were not enough as Emerson was able to plate 13 runs of its own.

SU out-hit Emerson 12-10 with Alyssa Cantalini (Kitchener, Ontario/St. David Catholic Secondary) picking up three hits and two RBI and Neveroski adding another three hits. Meanwhile, Brittany Devlin (Furlong, Pa./Central Bucks East) and Stephanie Chlebove (Northampton, Pa./Northampton Area) had two hits over the course the game.

Three extra base hits from Emerson, including a homer, helped guide the team to a win over SU. Sarah Hoffman (Laceyville, Pa./Wyalusing Valley) tossed the first two innings and gave up seven runs – none earned – before Morgan Lewis (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) tossed the final five innings and gave up six runs (four earned).

SU countered a one-run first inning from Emerson by scoring three of its own in the bottom half of that inning but Emerson broke out for six runs in the sixth inning to go up 7-3.

In the bottom half of that inning the Crusaders were able to score three runs in large part to two-run home run off the bat of Cantalini as the team then trailed by just one run, 7-6, heading into the third.

However, Susquehanna scored just one run the rest of the game while Emerson added two runs in the third, one in the fourth and three in the sixth to put the game away.

The team hits the field again on Thursday with games against Coe and Adrian.