EASTON, Pa. – A seventh-inning home run by the Lehigh's Jaelynn Chesson gave the visitors a 4-3 victory over Lafayette softball on Sunday in the series finale.

The Leopards led throughout. They loaded the bases with no outs in the second inning. Natasha Miner came through with two-run single to left and another run came plateward when the leftfielder let the ball get by her and it rolled to the warning track. Lafayette led 3-0.
 
The Mountain Hawks responded with one run on three hits in the third. Jen Stoll ripped a ball back through the box to get Lehigh on the scoreboard. Brooke Wensel made the last two outs of the inning on a sinking liner up the middle and a ground ball in the hole.
 
Wensel led off bottom half, going the other way for a double which prompted a Lehigh pitching change in favor of game-two winner Gabriella Nori. Erin Scott bunted Wensel to third before Nori struck out Maddie Wensel and Malori Pojar to end the threat.
 
Lehigh added another run with two outs in the fourth inning. Payton Alsobrooks (4-for-4) hit a ball to right field and Erin Scott ran into the wall trying to make the catch. The stand-up triple scored Alexis Van Oyen and brought Lehigh within a run, 3-2.   
 
The visitors tied the game in the top of the fifth. Chesson doubled and her pinch runner eventually scored on 1-4-3 groundout. In the seventh, Chesson gave Lehigh its first lead of the game, 4-3, connecting for a deep home run to left center.
 
The Leopards went down in order in the bottom of the seventh and Maddie Wensel's one-out single in the sixth was the only hit Nori allowed. Nori pitched five innings, striking out seven of the 16 batters she faced. Stacy Gordon took the loss, surrendering four runs on 10 hits with a pair of walks and strikeouts.
 
Lafayette returns to action on Tuesday in a doubleheader at Drexel at 2 p.m.