Rochester, NY – Eighteen hits and 11 runs were not enough for the Clarkson University Softball team to pick up a win on Tuesday, as the Golden Knights dropped a pair of games, 10-9 and 10-2, against the University of Rochester.

The Golden Knights fell to 7-22-1 on the season and to 2-8 in conference games. Rochester edged closer to .500 at 13-14 and 6-4 in league contests.

The Golden Knights scored runs in five of the seven frames, putting up crooked numbers in the second and seventh. Clarkson scored once in the first on a fielder's choice that allowed Hannah Bowen to score, but the Knights pushed four across in the top of the second, all with two outs. Summer Lancette singled home both Michele Winn and Bowen to put the Knights up 3-0 and Bridget Woolley followed with a double to plate Lancette. Liz Caggiano later singled home Woolley to make it 5-0 in favor of Clarkson. The Yellowjackets scored once in the bottom half of the second, but the Knights responded with another run in the third as Samm Swiesz's two-out walk paid dividends when a fly ball was dropped in the outfield.

Rochester scored in the bottom of the third to make it 6-2, and after a scoreless fourth inning, the two offenses got back at it. Sam Mennig singled to lead off the fifth and moved up on a wild pitch, eventually scoring on an error by the Rochester third baseman. The Yellowjackets countered with two in the bottom of the fifth and two more in the bottom of the sixth to pull within one, but it appeared as if Hannah Bowen's line drive two-run homer to left-center in the top of the seventh would be enough to hold off the Rochester offense. That wasn't the case, as a two-out three-run homer by Harleigh Kaczegowicz tied the game and a double to left from Lydia Petricca scored the winning run in walk-off fashion for Rochester.

Bowen finished 3-for-5 at the plate with three runs scored and two more driven in while Summer Lancette, Liz Caggiano and Sam Mennig each went 2-for-4.

With momentum on its side and the offense clearly clicking, Rochester scored consistently in game two, tallying runs in all but the fourth inning. Clarkson was able to keep things close in the middle innings of the second contest when Summer Lancette hit her third homer of the season, driving in Bowen along the way, but the Yellowjackets scored six runs in the final two innings to end the game without a seventh inning being necessary. Lancette went 2-for-3 in the second game and Woolley was 2-for-2.