LANCASTER, Pa.- Despite getting a pair of solid pitching efforts, Eastern University Softball dropped a doubleheader at Franklin & Marshall College. The host Diplomats (7-7) held the Eastern bats to six hits on the afternoon and took the doubleheader by 4-2 and 3-1 scores.

Maggie McGowan pitched the opener and allowed only three earned runs, but the Eagles still trailed 4-0 going into the bottom of the seventh. Eastern scrambled for a pair of two-out runs, but the rally proved not to be enough as the Eagles ran out of outs.

The Eagles could not muster a hit off F & M starting pitcher Justine Lohrey through the first five innings, but the Eagles stayed in the game behind solid defense and the pitching of Janelle Fair. Fair gave up back-to-back doubles to open the second inning, but then matched Lohrey zero for zero.

Fair tied the game with a home run to left in the top of the sixth, but that lead proved to be short-lived as the F & M shortstop Samantha Ginder answered with a two-run homer in the bottom of the frame.

Eastern (7-5) is back in action at Arcadia University on Thursday.

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