Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. - The softball team dropped both games of a doubleheader at Mercy College this afternoon. The Lions fell to 15-24 on the season and 5-9 in East Coast Conference play with the losses.


Game 1: Molloy 5, Mercy 6

• Molloy took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on three straight hits. A double from sophomore Courtney Greene set up singles from freshman Amanda King and senior Tara Byrnes, who drove in the first run of the game. 
• The Mavericks evened the score with back-to-back doubles in the home half of the inning.
• The Lions plated two runs in the second inning on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Tonianne Larson and an ground out from senior Kaitlyn Snyder.
• The maroon and white led until the bottom of the fourth inning, where Mercy scored five runs on five hits to take a 6-3 lead.
• The bases were loaded for the Lions in the top of the seventh with no outs for Byrnes, who walked to bring Molloy within two, 6-4. The visitors came within one on a sacrifice fly by freshman Marissa Nicoletti, but were unable to overcome the deficit.
• King went 3-for-4 while Greene and sophomore Sarah Glaser each recorded two hits. Byrnes led with two RBI.
• Greene tossed 3.2 innings in the loss, striking out two. Senior Jenna Turato added two strikeouts in two innings of relief. 

Game 2: Molloy 3, Mercy 4

• The maroon and white once again took a lead in the first inning, with King driving in Snyder on a double. 
• The Mavericks, however, knotted the score with an RBI single in the bottom half of the inning.
• A triple to Glaser scored freshman Adriana Saab to put the Lions in front, 2-1.
• In her next at bat, Glaser gave Molloy a two-run advantage with an inside the park home run, the first homer of her career.
• Mercy knotted the score in the fifth inning, taking advantage of an error by the Molloy defense and a wild pitch.
• The game's deciding run came in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI single up the middle. 
• Turato fanned three batters in five innings in the loss.
• Glaser went 2-for-3 with the two RBI on the afternoon. King, Snyder, and freshman Alex Burns accounted for the other three hits for the Lions. 

Looking Ahead
Molloy remains on the road as they face New York Institute of Technology on Tuesday (Apr. 16) at 2:00 p.m.