ITHACA, NY – The RIT softball team (7-21, 3-11 Liberty League) dropped its final two Liberty League regular season games of the 2018 at Ithaca College (25-9, 11-3 Liberty League) through the raindrops on Saturday. Ithaca won game one, 8-4 and took game two, 6-2.
 
RIT is officially eliminated from Liberty League postseason play.
 
In game one, Ithaca jumped to a 7-0 lead after two innings before RIT mounted a rally. In the top of the third inning, Samm Carroll (Woodbridge, NJ/Woodbridge) walked and Danielle Hotz (Drexel Hill, PA/Upper Darby) singled to lead off the inning. After a pair of groundouts, Alexandria Lunderman (Manlius, NY/Fayetteville-Manlius) singled up the middle to drive in both runners to make it 7-2. After Ithaca scored in the bottom of the third, RIT answered with two more runs in the fifth. Olivia Doret (Fairfax, VA/Chantilly) lined a single to centerfield, scoring Lunderman and Madisen Baldwin (Washougal, WA/Washougal).
 
Ithaca slammed 14 hits in the game one win. The Bombers top three hitters, Allie Colleran, Gabby Laccona and Vanessa Brown combined to go 8-for-12 with six runs scored and three runs batted in.
 
In game two, the Bombers scored three times in the bottom of the first inning and extended its lead to 6-0 after four innings. RIT would get on the board in the sixth inning, as Erin Guinan (Geneva, NY/Geneva) doubled and scored on a bases loaded single by Doret. In the seventh, Tia Aunkst (Waterloo, NY/Waterloo) hit a pinch-hit double and came around to score on a double by Lunderman.
 
Lunderman had two hits in game two. Fellow senior Lauren Mahar (Rotterdam, NY/Schalmont) came on in relief of starter Melissa Gould (Harleysville, PA/Souderton Area) and threw 2 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit, while striking out three batters.
 
Laccona, Brown and Alex Wright had two hits apiece for Ithaca. Beth Fleming scattered eight hits, while striking out 10 batters in the complete-game win.
 
Today marked the final collegiate games for Aunkst, Lunderman and Mahar.