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Box Score 2 FARMVILLE, Va. – The Lafayette softball team finished off the final day of the Longwood Spring Break Invitational with a pair of setbacks, losing 6-2 to Le Moyne and 8-4 to Longwood.
Seniors
Kylee Sweet and
Dani Rosner each drove in two runs in the Sunday doubleheader.
In game one, Le Moyne got onto the scoreboard first, plating a pair of runs in the top of the second inning. Kayla Dunkerly (double) and Maddie Martin (single) were responsible for the tallies.
The Leopards answered with a run in the bottom of the second.
Ava Butler's lead-off walk was followed by singles from
Jordan Goedel and
Sabina Lehnert to score Butler to and make it 2-1. Lafayette then tied the game in the fourth.
Olivia Catalina singled, stole second and scored on Rosner's single.
Le Moyne retook the momentum in the top of the fifth, scoring three runs on three hits and a pair of Lafayette errors before stretching the margin to 6-2 in the sixth.
In game two, Longwood pounded out 13 hits to win its 11
th game of the season. The Lancers pushed across a run in the first, two more in the second and one in the fourth to lead 4-1.
In the sixth, the Leopards pulled within 6-2 as
Maggie Klug singled home Butler who had reached on a lead-off double. As the game moved to the bottom half, Longwood added two more runs on Sophia Knock's single for the 8-2 advantage.
Lafayette put together a mini rally in the top of the seventh fueled by a Sweet two-run homer, her first of the season.
Marisa Powell was handed the loss after giving up six runs on nine hits over 4.1 innings with four walks and four strikeouts.
Jordan Goedel tossed the final 1.2 innings, allowing two runs on four hits. Maggie Chapin walked seven but struck out 12 to garner the circle victory. She scattered four runs on seven hits for her sixth win of the season.
Next up, Lafayette will return to Virginia for the second-straight weekend, closing out spring break at the Radford Invitational on March 13-14. Lafayette will play four games, two each against Radford and East Tennessee State.
