Rams Split A Pair Against George Mason

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The Rams split a pair of games at home on Saturday afternoon, nearly coming back to beat George Mason in the first tilt before using a late offensive burst to take game two.
 
GAME ONE
 
Fordham made a late charge it the bottom of the seventh, but a sharp defensive play saved the game for George Mason, allowing the Patriots to clinch their first Atlantic 10 victory, 3-2.
 
The Rams jumped on the board first in the bottom half of the opening inning, as Elise Fortier launched a sac fly to center that scored Sydney Canessa from third base.  The RBI would prove to be the first of many on the day for Fortier.
 
George Mason got it going in the top of the third, as a Tiffany Webb triple scored Julia Czarnecki, who reached on an error.  A sac fly and a single to left brought home two more runs in the inning for the Patriots, who led 3-1 following the third out.  None of the runs in the game were earned for Michele Daubman.
 
Neither team scored over the next few innings, but the Rams made a push in the bottom of the seventh.  With two outs and nobody on, Fortier kicked off the rally with a single up the middle and Kayla Lombardo made it runners on first and second with a walk.  Next to the plate was Gabby Luety, who ripped a single to center that scored Fortier and put Lombardo in scoring position for Daubman.  The junior from North Massapequa, N.Y., took a fastball and gave it a ride to center, but Cori Prince snow-coned a ball over her head to end the game.
 
GAME TWO
 
Elise Fortier went 4-4 and tied a career-high with five RBI in the second game of a double dip, finishing just a triple shy of the cycle and leading a Fordham offensive barrage that downed George Mason 7-3 on Saturday afternoon.
 
Fortier registered an RBI double to left field in the first inning that many of the Fordham faithful thought hit above the yellow line and should have been a home run, a single in the third, a two-run shot to right in the fifth and another two RBI-single in the sixth.
 
The Patriots looked as if they might continue their hot hand from the dish in the top of the first, scoring three runs and grabbing the early lead.
 
Fortier brought the Rams within two in the bottom of the first with her questionable double in the home half of the inning and Luety made it a tie game with a two-RBI double in the bottom of the third.
 
Lauren Quense dominated in the circle after a shaky first inning, holding the Patriots off the board for the remainder of the game. 
 
Fortier put the Rams in front in the bottom of the fifth, pushing a ball into the jet stream and watching it sail over the right field fence to give her team a 5-3 advantage.
 
The senior from Coventry, R.I., added two more insurance runs for the Rams in the bottom of the sixth, giving her team the lead with which it would end the game.
 
The Rams will be back in action on Tuesday, hosting St. John's for an afternoon tilt at Bahoshy Field.