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SELINSGROVE, Pa.  – The Gettysburg College softball team suffered a pair of losses in a non-conference doubleheader at Susquehanna University.
 
Gettysburg (25-11) managed just two hits in a 17-2 loss in the opener. Susquehanna (26-5) blew open a close game with seven runs in the fifth inning to win the nightcap 10-2.
 
The Bullets failed to connect on a hit until the fifth inning against Morgan Lewis, who finished with eight strikeouts in game one. The Crusaders, meanwhile, scored runs in each of their four plate appearances, including seven runs in the second inning.
 
Gettysburg scored an unearned as the result of a pair of errors in the fourth before posting two hits in the fifth. Senior Emily Hall (Reston, Va./Flint Hill School) singled to left and was replaced on the base paths by freshman Jessica Casale (Cranford, N.J./Cranford). Casale swiped second base before coming around to score on a single to right by senior Melissa Tighe (Little Falls, N.J./Mount St. Dominic Academy). Tighe stole her team-high 32nd base of the season before the contest concluded.
 
The Bullets tallied two hits in the opening frame of game two. Freshman Mykaela Twitchell (Cumberland, Maine/Greely) launched a double to left-center, but the game's potential first run was thrown out at home.
 
Susquehanna loaded the bases in the second and ended up plating three runs in the inning. The Crusaders were held without a hit in the next two frames as Gettysburg clawed back into the game. Freshman Stephanie Leonardo (East Haddam, Conn./Choate Rosemary Hall) and Hall posted back-to-back doubles to score the team's first run in the fourth inning. In the fifth, Tighe came around to score on a single by junior Steph Zengel (High Bridge, N.J./North Hunterdon) to cut the deficit to 3-2.
 
The hosts brought across seven runs in the fifth to close the game, including a grand slam by freshman McKayla Brady.
 
Sophomore Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) went 2-for-3 to lead the Bullets in the nightcap.
 
Gettysburg plays its final Centennial Conference series at Haverford College on Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m.