Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College softball team (10-26, 3-9 NEC) competed against Colgate (17-24, 5-7 NEC) for a home non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon. Colgate took both games over the Dolphins, 11-0 and 13-5.

"I'm proud of the way our team continues to compete despite whatever the circumstances might be" said head coach Tracey Roman. "There is a difference between losing and quitting and we refuse to quit.  You have to have tremendous fire in your belly to continue to fight when you're flat out getting beat and we do not stop fighting…no matter how much the deck is stacked against us. That takes courage and speaks to the character of our team.  Grit is a choice. Doesn't always get you the result you want in the win column but what we're working on is bigger than wins and losses. Learning to fight for yourself is a lesson for life, and I believe we are succeeding in that part of our journey together."
 
First Game:
For the first game of the day, no runs or hits were made until the top of the second. In the second inning Kara Fusco scored off Nora Megenity reaching on an error and Quinn Livesay stole home off a wild pitch (2-0).
 
The Dolphins added two hits in the third inning. Graduate student catcher Brandi Feeney (Cicero, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse/Saint Peter's) singled to left field to start off the inning and freshman outfielder Kara Bacon (Warrensburg, N.Y. / Warrensburg) singled off a bunt. Both Feeney and Bacon went 1-1 for the first game.
 
Two more hits were added in the bottom of the fourth for the Dolphins. Redshirt junior Frankie Larobardiere (North Syracuse, N.Y. / Cicero-North Syracuse/ Onondaga C.C.) singled to shortstop and graduate first baseman Mckenzie Bergdoll (Attleboro, Mass./Attleboro) singled down the right field line. Larobardiere went 1-2 and Bergdoll went 2-1 for this game.
 
In the top of the fifth, Megenity hit a double, Rachel Carney then singled off a bunt and Jillian Herbst hit a single to shortstop. Kiley Shelton then singled to left advancing to second off an error by the left fielder, as she brought home Carney and Megenity (4-0).
 
The Raiders would add another seven runs in the top of the sixth. Amanda DeSantis reached on a fielder's choice which Livesay scored off of (5-0). Carney drew a walk bringing home Niamh Doughtery (6-0). Herbst hit a single to center bringing home Megenity (7-0). Shelton tripled to right center as Herbst, Carney and DeSantis would all score (10-0). Fusco would then single to shortstop and Shelton would score giving the Raider's their 11^th and final run taking the win 11-0.
 
Second Game:
The Dolphins were first to add a run in the second game during the first inning as junior right fielder Alyssa Dybacz (Baldwinsville, N.Y. / Charles W. Baker) doubled to right center. Dybacz then stole third during the at-bat of junior second baseman Dominique Rinaldi (Sayville, NY/Sayville) which Rinaldi would then single to right field and Dybacz would score (1-0). Dybacz and Rinaldi both went 1-2 this game.
 
Colgate responded in the second, Megenity singled to right bringing home Adrienne Nardone (1-1). Livesay scored off a wild pitch (2-0).

In the top of third, Herbst and Carney both scored off a double from Adrienne Nardone (4-1). Dougherty then homered which Rowan Mulhollan and Nardone scored off of (7-1).
 
In the bottom of third, Larobardiere scored of a single from Bergdoll to left field (2-7). Both Larobardiere and Bergdoll went 2-1 in the second game.
 
The Raider's Shelton homered bringing Herbst, Carney and Dani Rosner across the plate as well (11-2).
 
In the bottom of the fifth, redshirt junior second baseman Brooke Nicolaos (Liverpool, N.Y. / Cicero-North Syracuse) singled down the right field line. Larobardiere singled to right field and Nicolaos scored (3-11). Sophomore shortstop Avery Linn (Bethpage, N.Y. / Plainedge) entered the game to pinch run for Larobardiere at first. Bergdoll hit a homerun bringing in two more runs (5-11). Nicolaos would go 1-2 this game.
 
The Raider's added two more runs in the top of the sixth with a single from Nardone that Herbst scored on and Shelton scored off a fly-out from DeSantis (13-5). The Raider's would take the second game 13-5 over the Dolphins.
 
The Dolphin's next game will be Wednesday, April 17^th for a doubleheader against Saint Peter's at 12pm and 2pm at the Le Moyne Softball Complex.