The Lancaster Bible softball team earned one win on Thursday and their North Eastern Athletic Conference playoff hopes are still alive, but the Chargers' game two loss may be one they want back should they not make the playoffs as they missed an opportunity to pull within a game of third-place Penn St. Abington in the win column. Lancaster Bible won game one on Thursday, 6-3, but committed three errors in game two and lost, 9-5 in Morristown, N.J. 

The doubleheader split leaves the Chargers with a 10-16 overall record and an 8-8 mark in NEAC play with four conference games remaining. Penn St. Abington, who is in the third an final playoff position currently is 10-4 in conference play with six games remaining. The Nittany Lions play Wilson in four of their final six games and the Chargers and Nittany Lions are scheduled to play on Tuesday, April 28 in what could be a doubleheader that decides the final NEAC South Division playoff berth.

Junior Ali Morton powered the Chargers to a game one victory on Thursday as her three-run home run in the thrid inning proved to be the difference. Each team scored a run in the first and the score remained that way until the third when with two outs, Courtney Koser and Kelsey Collins each drew walks. Morton was up next and cleared the bases with her first home run of the season. 

St. Elizabeth answered back in the fourth inning with two runs to cut the deficit to 4-3, but the Chargers tacked on two more runs in the seventh inning to retake a three-run lead. Collins earned her seventh win of the season as she scattered four hits over seven innings and allowed just one earned run. She also struck out a season-high 13 batters and walked just two.

Freshman Julia D'Arrigo finished game one 2-for-4 with a run scored, while fellow freshman Alicia Ort was also 2-for-4 and added an RBI. Collins helped her own cause as she went 1-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. 

The Eagles took an early 1-0 lead in game two and then extended the lead to 5-1 in the third inning on a three-run home run by Alyssabel Garcia. Ort, who had the best two games of her young collegiate career on Thursday, drove in two more runs in the fourth to cut the deficit to 5-3. Another single by Richelle Kane scored Ort and the Chargers trailed 5-4 after 3 1/2 innings. 

St. Elizabeth got a run back in the bottom half of the fourth to extend its lead back to 6-4 and then scored three more times in the fifth inning to take a 9-4 lead. Kane doubled home Kristen Hartline in the seventh to produce the final score of 9-5. 

Kane finished 3-for-3 in game two with a run scored and two RBI, while Hartline was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Ort was 1-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI and Emily Coffman was 2-for-3 with a run scored.

Lancaster Bible returns to action on Friday when the Chargers host Trinity (D.C.) at 3 p.m.