Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

Emmitsburg, MD – In their final weekend of Northeast Conference regular season action, the Seahawks softball team earned a hard-fought two-game split against Mount St. Mary's, dropping the first game 4-3 in nine innings, before coming back to hold off the Mountaineers, 4-3, in the matinee game. Wagner ends its NEC play with a 5-15 mark in the league and 16-34 overall. The Mount jumps to 7-11 in the conference with one more NEC doubleheader against LIU Brooklyn still to play.

The pitchers dominated game one of the day as Wagner's Judy Betz (Ashburn, VA / Broad Run) and Mount St. Mary's Amanda Sadowl combined for just one hit against in the first two innings. The Seahawks opened the scoring in the top of the third inning on a two-run homerun by sophomore Kristen Matteoni (Reno, NV / Galena), who belted her team-high seventh of the season, putting the Green & White up 2-0.

Betz kept the Mountaineers of the scoreboard until the bottom of the sixth inning when Liz Christiansen tied the game with a two-run bomb of her own, evening the game at two apiece.

Senior Ashley Olsen (Staten Island, NY / Notre Dame Academy) gave the Seahawks the lead in the top of the seventh frame on a two-out double to right field, scoring pinch runner Taylor Rauscher (Peoria, AZ / Sunrise Mountain) with her 17^th run scored of the season.

The Mount tied the game in their half of the seventh inning after three walks loaded the bases for Christiansen, who hit a deep two-out sacrifice fly to centerfield, knotting the game up at three. Freshman pitcher Samantha Bedker (Phoenix, AZ / Sandra Day O'Connor) got her team out of the three-base jam after allowing the tying run, sending the Seahawks into the seventh extra-inning affair of the year.

Each team went scoreless in the eighth inning before the home Mountainners' Erin Leddy blasted a walk-off solo homerun to record her fifth homer of the year and seal the game one, 4-3, victory.

Bedker was credited with the loss, throwing 2.1 innings, allowing one run on two hits while striking out a game-high three batters.

Looking to end on a high note, the Seahawks came out firing to start the second game, as Matteoni led off the top of the first inning with her 10^th double of the year, paving the way for back-to-back RBI hits by freshman Kelsey Parker (Lynnwood, WA / Lynnwood) and junior Brittany Huss (Anthem, AZ / Boulder Creek), giving Wagner the early 2-0 advantage.

The Mountaineers cut their deficit in half with their first plate appearances, scoring one run on two hits off sophomore starter Ashley Rollins (Fairfax, VA / Fairfax), making it a 2-1 game after one.

Wagner picked up its third run of the game in the top of the fourth inning after Olsen led off with rope double to centerfield, scoring two batters later on a sacrifice fly by freshman Cara Donovan (Centreville, VA / Centreville).

Making it interesting, the Mountaineers fought back to tie the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, picking up two runs on three hits off Rollins to even the score at three apiece heading into the seventh.

The Seahawks took advantage of their last-inning at-bats, as Huss put the Green & White up by one on a RBI single to right field, scoring Matteoni, who led off the inning with a single of her own. The two combined for a 5-for-7 day at the plate in game two, with Huss picking up two RBI.

Bedker, who again came in for relief of Rollins late in the game, wrapped up the Mountaineers in the bottom half of the inning, allowing no hits en route to picking up her seventh win of the year in the 4-3 Wagner victory.

Wagner, who will miss out on the NEC tournament for the fourth consecutive season, concludes its 2012 campaign on Wednesday, May 2^nd, when the Seahawks travel to Manhattan for a two-game set with the Jaspers beginning at 2:30 p.m.