Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

Easton, PA – The Wagner College softball team picked up its fourth two-game split today, posting nine runs in their game one victory over Lafayette, 9-7, before dropping the matinee game, 4-1. With the non-conference split, the Seahawks move to 10-22 on the year, while Lafayette's win gives the Leopards its five victory of the year, moving to 5-17.

After the Leopards jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, the Green & White came right back in a big way, putting up four runs in the top of the third inning, and another four in the top of the fourth. During that span, freshman Kelsey Parker (Lynnwood, WA / Lynnwood) extended her hit streak to 17 games, roping a two-run single, giving Wagner the initial lead.
Fellow first-year Jessica Albarran (Corona, CA / Eleanor Roosevelt), sophomore MacKenzie Alfaro (Riverside, CA / Riverside) and junior Brittany Huss (Anthem, AZ / Boulder Creek) also recorded RBI, giving Wagner an 8-3 lead.

Lafayette kept the game interesting down the stretch, scoring two runs in the bottom of the fourth and two more in the bottom of the sixth to crawl back into the game, but freshman pitcher Samantha Bedker (Phoenix, AZ / Sandra Day O'Connor) kept her squad in control.

The Seahawks added one more insurance run in the top of the sixth, when Albarran laced a double to right centerfield, scoring Parker, and capping off Wagner's 9-7 game one win.

Bedker threw a complete game victory, allowing 12 hits, and striking out one, moving to 4-9 on the year.

Bedker's classmate Olivia Zwick (Surrey, Canada / Earl Marriot) got the nod in game two against the Leopards, coming off a complete-game victory against Sacred Heart last weekend. The hard-throwing righty allowed just seven hits on the day, but all of them came in the second and third innings, as Lafayette put up two runs in each frame to account of its four runs.

Offensively, the Seahawks bats cooled down from the game before, accumulating just one hit in the first six innings. Huss led off the top of the second with her 28^th hit of the year, but Leopards pitcher Melissa Robinson wouldn't let up another until the last inning.

Wagner tried to get something going in the top of the seventh inning, as Albarran belted her team-high eighth double of the year, and her pinch runner, Carley Nicoletti (Plainville, NY / C.W. Baker) would score one batter later on an Alfaro single. Alfaro's 21^st hit of the season was the last of the day for the Seahawks, as Robinson sealed the three-run win, retiring the last two Wagner batters.

Zwick was credited with her seventh loss of the year, throwing 4.1 innings and allowing four runs on seven hits. Sophomore Ashley Rollins (Fairfax, VA / Fairfax) came in for relief of Zwick to pitch 1.2 innings, giving up no hits and one walk.

Wagner will be back in action on Friday, April 6^th, when the team heads down to Monmouth for a Northeast Conference doubleheader with the Hawks.

NOTE: Parker, who was without a hit in the second game of the two-game series, had her 17-game hit streak broken ... Wagner also saw the Leopards in two games at the 2012 Rebel Games, where again, the two team's split the series.