Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – The Susquehanna softball team dropped a pair of games by a combined three runs to visiting Muhlenberg on Saturday afternoon in a non-conference doubleheader. SU fell 3-1 in the opener before falling 3-2 in the second game of the afternoon.

Game one starter Morgan Lewis (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) limited the Mules to just three runs (two earned) on seven hits but the Crusaders managed just six hits and one run of their own. Lewis had seven strikeouts to just two walks in the loss.

Six different players accounted for SU's six hits with Amanda Neveroski (Toms River, N.J./Toms River North) going 1-for-3 with one RBI and Lauren Creamer (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) adding one hit and scoring her team's lone run of the game.

Muhlenberg scored two of its three runs in the second inning with both runs scoring on an Alexis Giovinazzo two-RBI single to right field.

The Crusaders got back one of those runs on Neveroski's RBI single to right field but in the top of the seventh, the Mules tacked on an insurance run, thanks in part to a Susquehanna error, to take a 3-1 lead. SU was retired in order in the seventh to end the game.

In game two, Susquehanna out-hit Muhlenberg by an 8-6 margin but still came up short. Bridget Rafter (Highlands, N.J./Henry Hudson Regional) and Claire Hanratty (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) each had two hits and Anna Heggenstaller (Liverpool, Pa./Greenwood) accounted for SU's lone RBI in the game.

Pitcher Jamie Fesinstine (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) tossed all seven innings, scattering six hits while striking out nine and did not allow a walk.

The Mules scored all three of their runs in the top of the fourth with Taylor Trifiolis driving in two of the three runs.

In the bottom of the sixth, a Muhlenberg throwing error allowed Sam LaCoe (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) to score after she had reached base on a fielding error by the Mules' first baseman. Another error by the third baseman on a ball hit by Heggenstaller allowed the inning's second run to score and Muhlenberg suddenly led by just one run (3-2).

Unfortunately, the Crusaders went down in order in the seventh.

SU remains at home to host Scranton on Sunday, April1 3 in a Landmark Conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.