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Box Score 2 LYNDHURST, N.J. – The Felician College softball team lost both ends of a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader, 5-0 and 10-0, to visiting Georgian Court University in its regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at Matera Field. Sophomore first-baseman Ciera Clark (Granite Bay, Calif./Del Oro) collected three of Felcian's six base hits on the day.
The losses kept Felician in a three-way tie for eighth place in the CACC. However, the Golden Falcons were 0-4 this season against the other two teams involved in the tie, leaving them out of the postseason for the first time since 2010.
Georgian Court junior Kristina Morgan (Audubon, N.J./Audubon) pitched complete-game shutouts in both games. The 5-foot-6 right-hander tossed a four-hitter with 11 strikeouts in Game 1, and came back with a five-inning, 53-pitch, two-hitter with six punchouts in the nightcap. She did not walk or hit a batter in her 12 innings of work.
The afternoon's opening game was scoreless after three frames before Georgian Court (27-25, 17-9) picked up all five of its runs in the top of the fourth inning. The Lions had seven hits and drew a bases-loaded walk in the rally. That was plenty of support for Morgan, who did not allow a runner to reach second base. Clark had two of Felician's four singles.
Briana Molino (Williamstown, N.J./Williamstown), Taylor McDonough (Toms River, N.J./Manchester Township) and Ashlynn Thompson (Phoenix, Ariz./Pinnacle) each had two hits in GCU's 10-hit attack.
The Lions jumped out early in Game 2, batting around and scoring five times in the top of the first inning. Megan Sfraga (Land O Lakes, Fla./Land O Lakes) had a two-run single, and fellow freshman Adriana Cortez (Menifee, Calif./Paloma Valley) capped the rally with a two-run double.
After plating single runs in the third and fourth, GCU put the game away with a three-run fifth. Morgan worked around two errors in the bottom of the fifth to retire the side and end the game. It was the only occasion all day in which the Golden Falcons put two runners on base in the same inning.
Thompson and Molino each went 3 for 4, and Sfraga and Cortez drove in three runs apiece. The Lions racked up 14 hits in their five offensive innings.
Kelsi Ludwigsen (Havre de Grace, Md./Harford Tech) had a hit in each game for Felician (15-29, 9-17).
Between games, Felician honored pitcher Kristen Tenwolde (Ramona, Calif./Ramona) and outfielder Gina Piserchio (West Orange, N.J./West Orange) in Senior Day ceremonies.