STROUDSBURG, Pa. – The Felician University softball team took a break from Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play by traveling to East Stroudsburg University for a non-league doubleheader on Wednesday afternoon at Creekview Park. East Stroudsburg emerged victorious in both contests, taking Game 1 by an 8-5 score before earning an 11-2, five-inning Game 2 triumph.

Freshman third baseman Daisha Howard (Westbury, N.Y.) drove in three runs on the day for Felician (5-13).

ESU (16-8) recovered from deficits of 3-0 and 5-3 to capture the day's first game. A Howard home run and RBI singles by Alexis Velotta (Menifee, Calif.) and Mia Martinez (Bronx, N.Y.) drove in Felician's three runs in the top of the second inning. The Warriors evened the score with a pair in the second and an unearned run in the third, but Golden Falcon junior left-hander Martarina Crumb (Branchville, N.J.) escaped a bases-loaded jam to keep the game tied.

Felician went ahead in the fifth, tallying twice on a run-scoring double by Vienna Chierchia (Manalapan, N.J.) and Howard's squeeze bunt. But the Warriors once again knotted the score in the home half on Katherine Donaghue's (Walkersville, Md.) two-run home run.

In the sixth, ESU pinch-runner Addison Roche (Quakertown, Pa.) scored all the way from first base on teammate Lexi Wright's (Thornton, Pa.) single to put her team ahead to stay. The hosts tacked on two more runs, and Warrior reliever Mickayla Grow (Lykens, Pa.) set down the Golden Falcons in order in the seventh. Grow (2-0) earned the victory with 2 2/3 hitless innings.

Graduate first baseman Nicole Spiegelberg (Blauvelt, N.Y.) was 2 for 4 for Felician. ESU senior left fielder Ashley Spencer (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) went 3 for 4 with a double and a triple.

Felician fell behind early in Game 2, as Warrior designated player Morgan Walsh (Ocean, N.J.) launched a first-inning grand slam home run. The visitors sliced their deficit in half in the second, using run-scoring groundouts from Howard and C.J. Apacible (Long Beach, Calif.). East Stroudsburg, however, put the game away with a seven-run fourth, using five hits, a walk and a Golden Falcon error.

Freshman right-hander Morgan Chapman (Ridley, Pa.) pitched a one-hitter for ESU, with junior Sam Melendez (Levittown, N.Y.) picking up the only Felician safety. Gianna Coyle (Oxford, Pa.) was 2 for 2 off the Warrior bench.

Felician hosts a makeup non-conference doubleheader against Mercy College on Thursday at noon in Lyndhurst, N.J. Per CACC protocol due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, no spectators will be allowed to attend athletics events hosted by CACC institutions until further notice. Check www.caccnetwork.com for live webstream information.