Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CLERMONT, Fla. – The Manhattanville softball team dropped its final two games at the Dot Richardson Spring Games on Wednesday, falling to Heidelberg by a 5-4 score and Lesley in six innings, 10-2, at the National Training Center.

In the first game of the day, Manhattanville jumped out to a four-run lead through two innings, but Heidelberg used a pair of homers to score the final five runs of the game to pull out a 5-4 victory over the Valiants.

Freshman Shelbee Damianos (Ojai, Calif./Nordhoff) and senior Emily Frawley (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) had two hits apiece for Manhattanville, while junior Alyssa Casino (Rye Brook, N.Y./Maria Regina) went 1 for 3 with a pair of runs batted in.

The game started well for the Valiants, as they scored three times in the bottom of the first to take an early lead. A leadoff single by sophomore Alyx Scapperotti (Harrison, N.Y./Harrison) was followed by a Damianos double, and Casino came up after a base hit by freshman Dolores Diemicke (North Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) and laced a single through the left side to score two more.

The lead grew in the second inning after Diemicke walked with the bases loaded to make the score 4-0, but the damage was limited when junior Rosaria Callara (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) flied into a double play to end the inning with the bases still loaded.

Frawley pitched well in the circle for Manhattanville, but in the end was done in by two pitches. In the third inning, Mikaela Mitsch launched a three-run homer with two outs to get the Student Princes back within a run, and Rachel Garris added a two-run shot in the fifth that put Heidelberg up for good.

Frawley (1-1) allowed all five runs on eight hits in seven innings to suffer her first loss as a Valiant. Erin Chapman (3-1) earned the win in relief for Heidelberg, tossing 5.2 scoreless innings after Paige Atterholt was tagged for four runs on seven hits in 1.1 innings.

Manhattanville never led in the second game, as Lesley scored twice in the first inning and poured on the runs late in posting a 10-2 (6 inn.) victory.

The Valiants were limited to six hits against the Lynx, with six different Valiants recording one hit each. Senior Alyssa Taylor (Craik, Sask./Craik) and freshman Melissa Iarocci (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) both drove in runs for Manhattanville.

Lesley's Mekenzi Golden put the home team up by two with a two-run single in the bottom of the first. The Valiants got one of those runs back in the top of the second, when senior Kirsten Savage (Harrington Park, N.J./Old Tappan) led off with a single and came around on an RBI single by Iarocci.

Golden struck again in the third inning, driving in her third run of the game with an RBI single. Lesley continued to add on the runs later in the contest, scoring once in the fifth and three times in both the fourth and the sixth to end the game early.

Taylor (1-5) had a rough outing in the circle for the Valiants, ceding all 10 runs (nine earned) on 15 hits in 5.1 innings. Alyson Nisbet (1-2) earned the win, giving up two runs on six hits in six innings.

Manhattanville was originally scheduled to open its home schedule on Saturday against King's (Pa.), but those games have been postponed due to snow on the field in Purchase. The team's next scheduled games come next Saturday, March 22, when the Valiants travel to Misericordia for a Freedom Conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.