Saint Louis Snaps Softball Winning Streak on Sunday

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Bronx, N.Y. – The visiting Bilikens of Saint Louis snapped the Fordham softball team's 13-game winning streak on Sunday afternoon with a 6-0 shutout victory. The Rams took the series, however, after sweeping yesterday's doubleheader and remain in first place with a 12-2 Atlantic 10 record and 29-16 overall mark. Saint Louis improves to 17-23, 7-7 on the season.  
 
Saint Louis' Brianna Lore provided her own game winner with a RBI single in the first inning that scored Mackenzie Peter. The Bilikens started the contest by loading the bases on a walk and two singles before Lore's hit. On the play, Peter scored easily from third but Sydney Canessa acted fast and gunned down Emma Buckles attempting to score at home. A second run crossed on the next play when Allie Macfarlane grounded out to short, allowing Elizabeth Everingham to score.
 
The Rams garnered just four hits on the day with their first coming on a Lindsay Mayer single through the left side in the fourth and the final two coming in the sixth inning with two outs. Saint Louis scored two more in the fifth on an error by Canessa in deep center field and a Macfarlane RBI single with two outs. Both runs were unearned. Mayer replaced Lauren Quense in the sixth inning and settled down over her final two frames after giving up a single and a two-run home run to her first two batters.
 
Lore improves to 9-12 on the season with her complete game shutout, allowing the four hits and two walks, while striking out one. Quense is saddled with the loss, her seventh, after allowing four runs, two unearned, on seven hits and four walks with four strikeouts. Besides her first two batters, Mayer allowed just two hits in two innings while striking out three.
 
Fordham embarks on its final regular season road swing next weekend with a three-game set at Rhode Island before traveling out to Dayton, Ohio the following weekend. Next Saturday, April 23, will see another Atlantic 10 doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.