Box Score (Game 1) | Box Score (Game 2)

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Despite allowing just 11 hits in a pair of games against 2010 NCAA Regionals participant Susquehanna University, the Lycoming College softball team succumbed to a pair of late-innings rallies on a brisk Tuesday afternoon at the Sassafras Softball Field, falling 5-0 and 2-1 as Susquehanna retained the Breast Cancer Awareness Cup.

The Warriors (8-4 overall) gave up the winning runs twice in the bottom of the sixth inning, helping the Crusaders (14-4 overall) run their winning streak to six games and spoil solid outings from sophomores Holly Lansberry (Curwensville, Pa./Curwensville Area) and Brie Braga (New Bedford, Mass./New Bedford).

In the second game, Braga (2-3) tossed one of her best outings of the season, tossing a five-hitter and striking out four.

After allowing a second inning run, Braga got out of a second-and-third jam with no outs in the fourth inning thanks to her own leaping catch, a pop-up and a groundout. She also got out of a jam in the fifth, as a runner reached third before she struck out the batter for the third out.

Meanwhile, at the plate, Braga tied the game in the third inning by blasting a liner over the right field fence.

In the sixth inning, a one-out two-base error set up the winning run for the Crusaders, as Taylor Crawford drove in the winning run with bloop single down the right-field line.

Brooke Garlick earned the win for the Crusaders, allowing three hits in a complete game. She struck out six and walked two.

Liz Beecraft was the lone Crusader to finish with two hits and Braga had two of Lycoming’s three hits.

Lansberry locked up with Sarah Hoffman in another classic pitchers’ duel in the first game, with Hoffman retiring the first 11 batters she faced. Lansberry locked right in with Hoffman, retiring nine in a row after a pair of first-inning singles and not allowing a runner past second base until the sixth inning.

In the sixth, a walk, a single and a hit batter helped load the bases before Crawford singled to second base and Kim Rubino followed with a bases-clearing double to highlight the five-run inning.

Lansberry allowed just six hits in the complete game, walking two and striking out three. Hoffman completed the two hit shutout with one walk and just one strikeout.

Brennan Balfour led the Crusaders with two hits and sophomore Amy Cline (Mifflinburg, Pa./Mifflinburg Area) and freshman Abbi Miller (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Area) each singled for Lycoming.

The Warriors get back on the field on Thursday when they head to Elizabethtown for a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.