DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. – For nearly 4 ¾ hours on Thursday afternoon, the softball teams from Felician College and host Mercy College traded offensive blows at Smith Field. In the end, after combining for 42 base hits, five home runs, 15 walks, five hit batsmen and 10 errors, the teams settled for a split of their non-conference doubleheader.

Felician (14-32) scored 11 runs in the final four innings to win the day's opening game, 12-6. Mercy used a late-game rally to come away with a 6-4 Game 2 victory, snapping the Golden Falcons' six-game win streak. Felician sophomore third-baseman Carissa Trujillo (Fresno, CA) went 5 for 7 with four runs batted in and was on base seven times for the day.

Golden Falcon freshman designated player Taylor Parker (Surrey, B.C.) went 3 for 3 and was on base five times in Game 1. Parker gave her team the lead it would never relinquish in the top of the fourth inning with a two-run home run to dead-center field, breaking a 1-1 tie. It was the first career round-tripper for Parker, and jump-started a six-run rally. Trujillo capped the inning with a two-out, two-run single for a 7-1 lead.

The Mavericks (24-25) would rebound for three runs in the bottom of the fourth, but the Felician offense continued to tack on. The Golden Falcons out-hit Mercy, 13-10, and took advantage of five Maverick errors to plate six unearned runs for the game. Trujillo finished 3 for 5 with three RBI, and Ciera Clark (Granite Bay, CA) and Grace Keller (Hoboken, NJ) had two hits apiece.

Felician junior pitcher Kristen Tenwolde (Ramona, CA) (8-16) was the beneficiary of the offensive explosion. Tenwolde persevered to earn a complete-game victory, giving up three earned runs on 10 hits with two strikeouts and two walks. Junior Lexi Majury (Bayville, NJ) hit two solo home runs for Mercy.

Majury's third homer of the afternoon, a two-run shot to left-center, broke a 4-4 tie and capped a five-run, two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth inning of Game 2, allowing Mercy to overcome a 4-1 deficit and salvage the split. The game was called due to darkness after Majury's blast.

Felician freshman hurler Macy Chase (Sacramento, CA) (4-8) had yielded one run on seven hits through the first five innings. But the Mavericks put together consecutive singles with one out in the sixth. After a foul out, pinch-hitter Shelby Johnson (Bullhead City, AZ) looped a two-run single to center field, and Jenna Ausiello (Petaluma, CA) lined a game-tying double to deep center, setting up Majury's heroics.

Clark had hit a three-run home run in the fifth, her team-high fifth of the season, to put Felician ahead, 3-1, and Trujillo added an RBI double in the top of the sixth. The Golden Falcons, however, left 10 runners on base for the game. Trujillo went 2 for 2 with two walks and Clark (1 for 1) was on base four times.

Mercy owned a 12-7 advantage in hits. Maverick hurler Alexandra Puglisi (Shelton, CT) (14-9) struck out nine and walked six in six innings. Chase had three punchouts and three walks.