Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Lowell, MA - The Adelphi University softball team traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts to close out their two day trip to New England, picking up a split with UMass-Lowell. The Panthers picked up a 3-1, 10 inning win in game one, on the back of Laurin Watts, and followed that up with a tough, 7-5 loss. With the split Adelphi is now 21-12-1 overall and 12-6 in conference, while the Riverhawks sit at 26-9 and 14-5 in the NE-10.

Game One

Game one was a pitchers dual, with UML getting on the board first, courtesy of a home run over the left field wall in the fifth. The Panthers would eventually tie the game in the top of the seventh on a Meghan Heiser solo shot to left, forcing extra innings.

Kayla Rieger would drive home, what would be the winning runs in the top of the 10th inning on a double to left field, scoring Emily Dorko and Jeanine Leo, giving Adelphi a 3-1 lead. That was more then enough of a cushion for Watts, who ended the game with a strike out.

Watts collected her sixth win of the season, throwing all 10 innings, scattering seven hits and striking out six in the dominant victory.

Heiser saw the ball well all game, going 2-4 with one run scored and one RBI, while Dorko, Rieger, Amanda Krier, Jaclyn Binstock and Katie Andrews picke up one hit each.

Game Two

Both offenses came alive in the second game, with the Riverhawks waking up early, scoring seven runs in the first three innings of play. UML would score a run in the bottom of the first on a double and a second run in the second inning on a bunt, 2-0. The third inning was when the Riverhawks really got going, scoring five runs on two doubles and a well placed ground out, putting the Panthers in a 7-0 hole.

Adelphi started to dig out in the top of the fourth, scoring one run on an Andrews single to center that plated Amy Ogden and a second run on a Heiser hard hit ball that brought around Binstock, 7-2. In the fifth a Krier ground out, scored Leo to pull Adelphi within four, at 7-3, while a Courtney Sullivan single in the sixth scored Victoria Wink and cut the margin down to three, 7-4.

The Panthers rallied again in the seventh, but could plate just one more run, scoring Dorko on a Krier sacrifice, dropping the game 7-5.

Katie Andrews was credited with the loss, after throwing 2.1 innings of three hit, six run softball, striking out two. Devon Kelly came on in relief and tossed 3.2 innings, giving up five hits and just one run, while striking out six.

Dorko got hot in game two, going 3-4 with one scored, while Rieger, Binstock, Wink, Andrews, Sullivan and Leo stroked one hit each.

Adelphi returns to action on Monday, April 9 when they play host to Dowling College at 3:00 pm on Janet L. Ficke Field.