The Lancaster Bible softball team's push for a spot in the North Eastern Athletic Conference playoffs hit a bump in the road on Monday as the Chargers were swept by St. Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J. The doubleheader loss drops the Chargers to 13-16 overall this season and 4-8 in conference play. 

Game 1
St. Elizabeth 7, Lancaster Bible 4
How it Happened: Lancaster Bible got on the board first as Zoie Senn hit a sacrifice fly that scored Julia D'Arrigo. The Chargers held that lead until the third inning when St. Elizabeth scored three times to take a 3-1 lead. The Chargers got a run back in the top half of the fifth inning when Samantha Denson singled home Ashli Schmidt to make it 3-2, but the Eagles scored three more times in the bottom half of the inning to take a 6-2 lead.

Senn doubled home D'Arrigo in the sixth inning and Morgan Burkholder singled later in the inning to plate Senn to cut the Eagles' lead to 6-4, but once again St. Elizabeth answered in its half of the inning and got one run back to make it 7-4 and held on to win by the same margin.

Inside the Box Score: D'Arrigo was 3-for-3 with two runs scored in game one, while Courtney Koser was 2-for-4...Burkholder and Denson also finished 2-for-4 and each added an RBI as well...Senn finished 1-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI.

Game 2
St. Elizabeth 9, Lancaster Bible 6
How it Happened: St. Elizabeth got on the board first in game two as the Eagles scored twice in the bottom of the second inning to take an early 2-0 lead. The Chargers responded quickly as the visitors scored six times in the top half of the third. D'Arrigo hit a two-run triple that scored Richelle Kane and Alicia Ort to tie the game at 2-2 and Senn followed that with a single of her own that brought home D'Arrigo.

Kelsey Collins reached on an error that brought Senn in to score and Burkholder followed with a two-run double that plated Koser and Collins to make it 6-2. St. Elizabeth, as they did all day, responded quickly and scored three runs in its half of the third inning to cut the Chargers' lead to 6-5. 

Back-to-back doubles in the fourth inning gave St. Elizabeth the lead for good as they took a 7-6 lead. The home team would tack on a run in the fifth and sixth innings as well and won by three runs for the second straight game.

Inside the Box Score: D'Arrigo finished 1-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored...Collins and Koser were each 1-for-3 with a run scored...Burkholder finished 1-for-4 with two RBI...Ort and Kane were also 1-for-3 with a run scored.

Extra Bases: Lancaster Bible is now 4-5 all-time against St. Elizabeth.

Up Next: These two teams are right back at it on Wednesday as the Chargers host the Eagles for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.