Softball | 4/25/2013 7:00:00 PM

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ROCHESTER, NY - The RIT softball team (10-20) split a doubleheader against SUNY Geneseo (18-14) at Tiger Stadium on Thursday afternoon. RIT used a six-run sixth inning to secure a 9-5 win in game one, but was held to just two hits in a 11-0 loss in the second contest.

Alissa Dixon (Rochester, NY/Webster Schroeder) continued her hot pitching, improving to 4-1 in her last five starts in game one. The freshman hurled a complete game and allowed only four earned runs while striking out nine batters in the opener. The strikeout total is her highest since the first start of her RIT career on Feb. 25 when she struck out 11 against SUNY Canton in Clermont, Fla. Going into the seventh inning, Dixon had allowed just three hits and two runs, but the Knights scored three times on three hits in their final at bat.

The Tigers opened the scoring in the bottom of the second as Kelsey McManus (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Mendon ) scored on a wild pitch. RIT would add another tally in the next inning when Amanda Cook (Royal Palm Beach, FL/Suncoast) crushed her first career home run to right field.

Dixon kept the Knights off the scoreboard until the top of the fifth when Samantha Brown knocked in two runs with an RBI single up the middle to tie the game at two.

RIT responded in its next at bat on a Sarah Wolcott (Cohocton, NY/Wayland-Cohocton) double to center that scored Cook.

The Tigers would bat around in the six-run sixth, scoring six runs on five hits. Brittany Griffin (Sterling, VA/Park View ) and LaVoie each had singles that drove in two runners and Cook added her second RBI for the game on a base hit. Griffin would come around to score on a wild pitch later in the inning.

Dixon improved to 6-8 on the season and won her second straight start. RIT had 13 hits for the game as seven different batters found their name in the hit column. Cook, fresh off being named the Liberty League Rookie of the Week on Monday, finished the game 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI while McManus, Griffin and LaVoie each finished with two hits.

Brown drove in four runs for the Knights and had two of the team's six hits.

Geneseo dominated the second game, scoring four times in the fifth and sixth innings to run away with an 11-0 victory. Griffin and McManus accounted for the only two hits for RIT who was shut out for the third time this season.

Five different Knights had a multi-hit game as they pounded out 15 hits, led by Katie Brennan who went 3-for-4 with two runs and a home run. Brennan also dominated on the mound, throwing six shut out innings and allowing only seven base runners.

Sarah Collmus (Falmouth, ME/Falmouth) took the loss for the Tigers.

RIT returns to action on Saturday as they host Nazareth for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.