Garden City, N.Y. (March 22) -- On Sunday afternoon, the Saint Anselm softball team dropped a non-conference doubleheader to Adelphi University. The Hawks fell 2-1 in eight innings in game one, followed by a 9-3 setback in the second game.

In game one, the Panthers jumped on top with an unearned run in the bottom of the second inning. Saint Anselm answered back two innings later as Morgan Murphy and Jaclyn Giannino put up back-to-back doubles to tie things at 1-1. Adelphi scored the game winner in the bottom of the eighth after the game-winning run reached on one of four Saint Anselm errors on the day.

Megan Lemire went the distance, scattering eight hits with two walks and one strikeout, along with a pair of unearned runs.

In the second game, Adelphi jumped on top 4-0 in the first inning and the scored stayed that way until the top of the fifth inning. Liz LeBrun got Saint Anselm on the board with a home run in the inning and Brittany Birch added another run later in the inning to make it a 4-2 margin. In the sixth, the Hawks inched closer as Lemire singled through the right side to score Moira McCabe to make it 4-3 heading to the bottom of the inning. The Panthers struck for five runs in the bottom of the inning though to come away with the sweep.

Britnee O'Neill took the loss for Saint Anselm, going five innings with 10 hits allowed and seven earned runs.

With the sweep, Saint Anselm falls to 8-8 on the season, while Adelphi improves to 10-4 overall.