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L 10-5
L 6-4

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EAST STROUDSBURG - Sophomore second baseman Heather Visco was 6-for-8 with a home run and four runs scored, but East Stroudsburg University dropped a PSAC East softball doubleheader vs. Kutztown, 10-5 and 6-4, on Saturday afternoon at Zimbar Field.

Visco was 4-for-4 with two runs in the opener, and 2-for-4 with her third home run of the season and two runs in the nightcap for ESU (9-9, 0-4), which opened its divisional schedule vs. Millersville on Friday.

Savannah Nierintz threw a complete game in the opener and Jackie Morell was the winning pitcher with 6.2 innings in relief in game two for Kutztown (21-7, 4-0).

GAME 1 - L 10-5

Kutztown led 5-2 going to the seventh, then scored five runs and held off the Warriors in the bottom half.

Visco (4-for-4, 2 runs) and senior 1B Danielle Dungee (2-for-2, HR, 2 walks, 3 RBI, run) combined for six of ESU's nine hits.

Visco singled, Dungee walked and senior catcher Haley Thomas had an RBI single to level the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the first.

After Kutztown took a 5-1 lead, ESU got one run back in the bottom of the fifth as Visco, junior Rae Holden and Dungee all singled with one out and Thomas plated the run with an RBI groundout.

Dungee hit a three-run homer, her fourth of the season, in the bottom of the seventh after singles by freshman 3B Samantha Pickar and Visco, but Nierintz got out of the inning to seal the win.

Three pitchers saw action in the circle for ESU in junior Rachael Liguori (3.1 IP, 5 runs, 2 earned), senior Amanda Carlin (3.0 IP, 3 runs) and senior Allison Mende (0.2 IP, 2 runs).

GAME 2 - L 6-4

ESU took a 3-2 lead through three innings before Kutztown scored four in the top of the fourth to pull away.

Both teams scored twice in the first inning, with ESU plating a pair of unearned runs, including an RBI single by sophomore OF Madison Oren.

Visco hit a solo homer to lead off the bottom of the third for ESU's 3-2 lead, but KU scored four runs on two hits and two ESU errors in the fourth.

The Warriors pulled within 6-4 with another unearned run in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI groundout by Pickar.

Liguori (7.0 IP, 3 earned runs, 5 hits, 4 strikeouts, 2 walks) threw her sixth complete game in 10 starts for ESU. Liguori had a career-high 12 strikeouts and didn't allow an earned run in a 2-0 loss vs. Millersville in the first game of Friday's doubleheader.