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Softball Drops a Pair to Southern Connecticut State

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New Haven, Conn. - Following a home sweep of Dowling on Thursday, the Knights softball team went on the road on Good Friday and dropped a pair to Southern Connecticut State, 5-4 and 8-0.  The 5-4 game was decided in 10 innings.Game One:THe Knights fell behind 3-0 as Central Connecticut scored an unearned run in the second and two more earned runs in the fifth.  However, Queens rallied late to force extra innings.Melissa Natale (Yaphank, N.Y./Longwood) led off the sixth with a bunt single and she came around when Kaitlyn Crowley (Patchogue, N.Y./St. John the Baptist) blasted a two-run homer over the wall.  The Knights grabbed a 4-3 lead later in the inning when Sara Schendel (Seattle, Wash./Cheif Stealth International) and Caroline Carbone (East Williston, N.Y/Wheatley School) scored a pair of unearned runs.The lead didn't last long, howver as Southern evened the score in the bottom of the sixth.  The game remained tied until the bottom of the tenth, when they score the game-winning run on a groundout and a single.Natale and Schendel led the Knights with two hits a piece.  Crowley drove in both earned runs and Isabelle Yaroch (Annadale, Va./Annandale) was tagged with the loss.Game Two:The Knights lost game two, 8-0, in five innings.Queens College had three hits in the game, one each from Natale, Monique Roberge (New Hyde Park, N.Y./Sewanhaka) and Athena Soregaroli (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Mercy College).  Yaroch took the loss in game two as well.The Knights return to East Coast Conference action on Saturday, March 30, when they face St. Thomas Aquinas in Sparkill, New York.

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