LYNDHURST, N.J. – Felician University scored two runs under international tiebreaker rules in the bottom of the ninth inning to earn a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over visiting Mercy College in Game 1 of the teams' non-conference softball doubleheader on Thursday afternoon at Matera Field. Mercy (17-23) came back to edge the Golden Falcons, 3-1, in the day's second game.

Felician freshman catcher Brynne Bauman (Hazlet, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) was 3 for 6 on the day and drove in two runs.

In Game 1, Felician freshman pitcher Erin Powers (Aberdeen, N.J./Matawan Regional) surrendered three runs in the top of the first inning, including a two-run home run to her pitching counterpart, Joelle Salisbury (Rotterdam, N.Y./Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons). But Powers kept the Mavericks off of the scoreboard thereafter until the tiebreaker was enacted, allowing her offense to creep back into the game.

Golden Falcon freshman shortstop Zeaenna Brackett (Woodbury, N.J./Woodbury) led off the bottom of the first with a triple. It was her eighth three-bagger of 2016, breaking her tie with Aimee Lopez for the Felician single-season record. Brackett would eventually score on Bauman's two-out single.

Felician (15-23) scored again on Brackett's RBI double in the second, then was held scoreless until the sixth, when it tied the score on a Mercy fielding error. The score held at 3-3 until the tiebreaker was put in place in the ninth. Powers limited the Mavericks to one run in the visitors' half, with Chelsea Konyar (Halifax, Pa./Halifax), who was placed on second base, coming home on Milana Gilaga's (Elmwood Park, N.J./Elmwood Park) single.

In the bottom of the ninth, a single by Racquel Manzo (Whittier, Calif./La Habra) and an error loaded the bases. A ground ball by Brittney Lazar (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) was mishandled, allowing the tying and winning runs to score.

Powers (4-8) worked all nine innings, giving up six hits and seven walks while striking out three baters. Salisbury finished 2 for 4 for Mercy and recorded seven strikeouts in a seven-inning no-decision. Bauman joined Brackett with two hits for the Golden Falcons.

Game 2 featured a pitchers' duel between Maverick freshman right-hander Kaylee Stevens (Simi Valley, Calif./Royal) and Felician junior righty Dyonna Pagliocca (Wood-Ridge, N.J./Wood-Ridge). Pagliocca weaved her way into and out of trouble for much of the contest, stranding 11 Mercy baserunners, but the Golden Falcon offense could do little with Stevens (3-2), who went the distance on a three-hitter.

Felician took an early lead on Bauman's RBI double in the first inning. Gilaga tied the score in the second when Felician could not retire a runner on her tapper near the plate with the bases loaded and two outs. The Mavericks snapped the 1-1 draw with two runs in the fourth on a slap RBI single by Gilaga and Julie Gross' (Port Monmouth, N.J./Middletown North) sacrifice fly.

Despite the loss, Pagliocca (1-5) picked up a career-high five strikeouts. She allowed six hits and six walks.