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Staten Island, NY - After storming back from four runs down to tie the game in the fifth, the Wagner College softball team walked off with a win in the seventh to earn a split of a doubleheader with Yale on Wednesday afternoon. The Seahawks captured the second game, 5-4, following a 5-3 defeat in the first game. Wagner is now 9-26 on the season, while Yale is 8-22.

Junior Hayley Sullivan (Bakersfield, CA/ North) drove in the winning run in the bottom of the seventh, a single through the drawn-in infield to score freshman Abigail Beasley (Peoria, AZ/ Centennial). A single and a pair of errors put Beasley in position to score the winning run.

The game was tied heading into the seventh after Wagner rallied for four two-out runs in the fifth. A double by freshman Brenda Bott (Fountain Valley, CA/ Fountain Valley) put the Seahawks on the board, as she then came around to score and make it 4-2 Yale on a Beasley single.

Sophomore Kelsey Parker knotted the game at 4-4 with an opposite-field home run on an 0-1 pitch, bringing Wagner back from down 4-0. Yale had jumped ahead early with three runs in the first and one in the second.

In the first game, Yale grabbed an early 3-0 lead, scoring two in the first and one in the second for an advantage that would prove insurmountable. The Seahawks would chip into the lead with a run in the bottom of the second, but Yale would grab two more in the top of the fifth.

In the bottom of the sixth, Parker and senior Brittany Huss (Anthem, AZ/ Boulder Creek) each drove in a run on a single, cutting the deficit to 5-3, but it would be the closest the Seahawks would come in the first game.

Sophomore pitchers Olivia Zwick (Surrey, British Columbia/ Earl Marriott) and Samantha Bedker (Phoenix, AZ/ Sandra Day O'Connor) each recorded their first collegiate plate appearances in the doubleheader. Zwick walked as a pinch-hitter in the first game, before grounding out twice in the second game. Bedker batted in the second game, flying out on a hard-hit ball to center field.

The Seahawks return to action on Saturday, Apr. 13, when they host Quinnipiac for the final time as an NEC opponent in a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 pm.