The Lancaster Bible College softball dropped a pair of games on Friday to St. Elizabeth as the Eagles came from behind to win game one, 7-6 and then hung on to defeat the Chargers in game two, 5-2. Lancaster Bible is now 6-18 overall and 2-6 in North Eastern Athletic Conference play, while St. Elizabeth improved to 5-19 overall and 2-8 in conference action.

St. Elizabeth 7, Lancaster Bible 6 -- Game 1
How it Happened: Lancaster Bible completely dominated the opening three innings as starting pitcher Julia D'Arrigo sat down nine straight batters and the Chargers held a 3-0 lead. The fourth inning was a different story as two errors came back to haunt the Chargers as St. Elizabeth's Liz Unger connected on a 3-0 fastball and crushed a grand slam home run over the left-field wall to give the Eagles a 4-3 lead. 

The Eagles extended the lead to 6-3 in the fifth, but sophomore Sam Denson's RBI single in the bottom half of the fifth cut the Chargers' deficit back to two at 6-4. St. Elizabeth grabbed back its three-run lead, 7-4 in the sixth, but once again Lancaster Bible answered in its half of the inning, as McKayla Smucker crushed a two-run triple to cut St. Eiizabeth's lead to 7-6. 

After holding St. Elizabeth scoreless in the seventh, Lancaster Bible could not mount a run in the bottom half of the inning and lost the game, 7-6.

Inside the Box Score: Denson finished 3-for-4 with two RBI in game one...D'Arrigo was 2-for-4 with a run scored...Caitlin March drew two walks and scored two runs...Zoie Senn drew a walk as well and scored a run...D'Arrigo pitched all seven innings, scattering eight hits and allowing four earned runs...She also struck out three batters.

St. Elizabeth 5, Lancaster Bible 2 -- Game 2
How it Happened: St. Elizabeth once again used one big inning to take down the Chargers as the Eagles scored all five runs in the fifth inning, en route to a 5-2 victory. Victoria Ciallella had a three-run triple in the third and then scored when the throw to third went out of play. 

The Chargers scored twice in the sixth inning on back-to-back RBI ground outs from Smucker and Zoie Senn, but couldn't complete the comeback in the seventh.

Inside the Box Score: Lancaster Bible had just five hits in game two, as D'Arrigo, Smucker, Denson, Kayla Thoune and March had hits...March scored a run as well, as did D'Arrigo...Freshman pitcher Martina McCauley pitched well for the Charger as she scattered 10 hits and struck out six.

Up Next: Lancaster Bible hosts Penn St. Abington on Saturday at 1 p.m.