ORANGEBURG, N.Y. – Despite setting a program record with four home runs, the Felician College softball team lost to host Dominican (N.Y.) College, 6-4, in Game 1 of the teams' Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at DC Field. Dominican scored in the bottom of the sixth inning to earn a 2-1 Game 2 victory. The games completed the 2015 regular season for both schools.

Dominican (29-17, 21-5 CACC) is listed at No. 8 in the most recent NCAA Division II East Region ranking. Sophomore left-handed pitcher Emily Larsen (Midlothian, Ill.) earned the victory in relief in both games for the chargers. She logged a total of 10 2/3 innings and gave up one run on six hits while striking out 12 batters.

Dominican began the day locked into second place in the CACC. Despite the losses, Felician (18-21, 14-12) remained in sixth place. Both teams will compete in the conference playoffs beginning on Thursday in Lakewood, N.J. The Golden Falcons will face third-place Wilmington (Del.) University, at a time to be announced, on the campus of Georgian Court University

Almost all of the scoring in Sunday's first game came in the initial two innings. A one-out home run by Alyssa Schwed (Kinnelon, N.J.) highlighted a two-run first inning for the Chargers. But Felician began the top of the second with three consecutive round-trippers, a feat believed to be unprecedented in school history, to take the lead. Taylor Parker (Surrey, British Columbia) led off with her second homer of the season, Mercedez Montanez (Vista, Calif.) did the same, and sophomore Jackie Dueñas (Riverside, Calif.) warpped a ball around the left field foul pole for her first collegiate home run.

The Chargers went ahead for good with four runs in the bottom of the second inning. They started the frame with four consecutive hits, including a go-ahead RBI double by Schwed. One out later, Shannon Truppi's (Little Ferry, N.J.) bunt single plated a run and Anne Sheibler (Wrentham, Mass.) had an RBI groudout.

Dominican did not score again, leaving 10 runners on base for the game. But after another Montanez homer leading off the fourth, Larsen was unblemished the rest of the way, stranding four Golden Falcons on base in the final two innings. Larsen (4-6) allowed three hits in 5 2/3 stanzas, struck out five and walked none.

Montanez was 3 for 3 for Felician. Schwed finished 2 for 2 plus two walks for the Chargers.

In Game 2, Felician lit up the scoreboard first when Amanda Lopez (Riverbank, Calif.) was credited with a steal of home plate when she scored on an attempted pick-off throw of another runner. Dominican reached Golden Falcon freshman righty Ashley Owens (Lockport, N.Y.) for the tying run in the third on a two-out RBI double by Shannon Haukap (Edmonds, Wash.)

Larsen took over for Dominican one batter into the third, and she and Owens were stingy to opposing hitters. In the sixth, Owens issued a leadoff walk. With one out, pinch-runner Mary Curatolo (Staten Island, N.Y.) moved around to third base on a Jillian Regan (Staten Island, N.Y.) single. Truppi then scored Curatolo with a single up the middle. Larsen worked around a one-out single to retire the Golden Falcons in the seventh.

Owens (8-11) suffered her second 2-1 loss in as many days. She tossed a five-hitter with six strikeouts and one walk. Larsen fanned seven hitters in five scoreless frames

With her Game 1 home run, Parker tied teammate Ciera Clark (Granite Bay, Calif.) for Felician's all-time lead in base hits. Both players enter the CACC playoffs with 179.