Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 VESTAL, N.Y. – In America East action on Saturday, the University of Hartford softball team dropped a pair of contests at Binghamton. The Hawks suffered an 8-0 loss in the opening game before falling on the losing end of a back-and-forth, 9-8 decision in the nightcap. The two teams will complete the series on Sunday with a single game at 12 noon.

Hartford drops to 7-24 overall and 1-9 in league games while Binghamton improves to 17-18, 7-3 in the America East. Demi Laney won both games for the Bearcats, striking out eight batters and issuing just one walk.

Receiving a three-RBI outing from sophomore Sawyer Fried on a 2-for-3 effort at the plate in game two, Hartford rallied for six runs in the top of the second, erasing what was an early three-run deficit to go ahead, 6-3. Through the next two innings, the Hawks played with that lead until the Bearcats strung together a rally of their own to take the lead for good.

Homering for the second time of the afternoon, Jessica Bump started things off by blasting a three-run shot in the second game. Batting through the line-up in the top of the second, the Hawks' six-run surge was produced off of six hits, including three-straight to start the frame, and one free pass. Genevieve Morneau-Vaillancourt brought in Hartford's first run of the game, getting hit by a pitch with the bases juiced to score Chelsey Mooney.

Three more consecutive hits by Meghan Wynn, Amber Andrews and Marisa Ferguson gave the Hawks their first advantage of the afternoon at 4-3 and forced a pitching change for the Bearcats in the process. Despite the new hurler, Hartford added two more runs to its count, driving in runs on a single by Fried and a ground out by Jackie Kelly.

Binghamton pulled within two at 6-4 by the end of the inning before tying up the contest at six-all with two more runs in the bottom of the third. Wynn put Hartford back ahead, 7-6, after scoring on a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth inning, but in the bottom of the frame, the Bearcats singled in two runs to regain the advantage at 8-7. One more score in the fifth pushed the home team's advantage to 9-7.

In the top of the sixth, the Hawks grabbed one of those runs back, with senior Amber Andrews closing the gap to one after singling and touching home on a two-out double by Fried. Hartford was unable to keep its rally going in its final at-bats, though, as Binghamton hurler Laney and the defense put down the final three Hawks in order to end the game.

Bump got the Bearcats going with a bang in the opening game as well, putting her team ahead, 2-0, with a long ball. One inning later, Binghamton broke the game opening, scoring five runs with Lisa Cadogan's grand slam capping the scoring. A solo shot from Sydney Harbaugh made it an 8-0 game. Senior Zuzana Kudernatschova fell to 2-9 with the loss while Laney allowed just three hits for the Bearcats.