Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WASHINGTON, DC – The Monmouth University softball team split its final two games at the District Invite, falling to Robert Morris, 7-6, in eight innings, before bouncing back for a 5-4 victory over host George Washington on Sunday. With the split, the Hawks move to 4-4, while Robert Morris is now 3-14 and George Washington is 5-6. Rachel Shotzbarger (Saugus, CA/Saugus) led the Hawks' offense with four hits, including two doubles, to go along with two runs scored and an RBI. Jill Freese (Oxford, PA/Oxford Area) also went 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBI's.

Ashalynn Umiamaka (Kapolei, HI/Kapolei [Eastern Arizona]) and Emma Hill (Rae, MO/King City [Highland C.C.]) had three hits and two runs apiece, while Nicole Wieczorek (Oakdale, NY/Connetquot) had two hits. Brooke Redmond (Cooksville, MD/Glenelg) doubled and drove in two.

Amanda Riley (Tracy, CA/John C. Kimball) took both decisions in the circle, allowing seven runs, but none of them earned. She scattered seven hits and three walks over 7.0 innings pitched and struck out five. Sydney Underhill (Temecula, CA/Chaparral) allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits and a walk in 7.2 innings pitched, picking up the save against George Washington. She struck out four.

Against Robert Morris, Monmouth staked itself to a 6-1 lead before the Colonials came back to tie the game with a three-run bottom of the seventh. Monmouth got on the board first with a single run in the third. Hill singled with one out, moved to second on a groundout and scored on a Shotzbarger two-out single through the left side.

In the fourth, two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Redmond, who drove in Umiamaka with a fielder's choice to make it 2-0. A pair of Robert Morris doubles in the bottom half of the inning plated the first Colonials' run to make it 2-1 Monmouth. The Hawks responded with a four-run top of the fifth. Shotzbarger doubled and scored the first run of the frame on a wild pitch, before Freese hit a three-run home run to make it 6-1.

Robert Morris got two runs back in the bottom of the fifth on Ashley Gerhart's RBI triple and Abrielle McCartney's run-scoring single to make it 6-3.

Robert Morris evened the score at 6-6 after seven with two hits, a walk, an error and three wild pitches. With tie-breaker rules in place, the Colonials ended the game in the eighth. Kristen Pray was placed on second and moved to third on a one-out groundout. She then scored Lauren Hackett's two-out, walk-off single through the left side.

Against George Washington, Monmouth again scored its runs early. They'd post two in the first, another in the second and two more in the third. An error, a walk and a wild pitch put runners on second and third for Justene Reyes (Carson, CA/Warren), who grounded out to score Chloe Howerth (Roscoe, IL/Hononegah) with the first run of the game. Umiamaka then doubled with two outs to score Shotzbarger with the second run.

With one out in the second, Hill tripled to right center and scored on Howerth's groundout to first to make it 3-0. The Colonials had the answer with three runs in the bottom of the second to tie the game at 3-3. A hit-by-pitch, a single and a sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third with one out. A swung-on third strike went for a wild pitch, allowing George Washington's first run of the inning to score. Monica Macchiarulo then tie the game with a two-run double.

But the Hawks retook the lead for good in the top of the third. A walk, an infield single and a Redmond sacrifice fly plated pinch runner Nikki Sandelier (Turnersville, NJ/Washington Township) with the go-ahead run before Hill delivered an insurance run with a two-out RBI single to score Wieczorek.

A walk, a wild pitch and an error allowed the Colonials to cut the Hawks' lead to 5-4 in the bottom of the seventh. But Underhill induced a groundout to secure the save and the Monmouth win.

The Hawks return to action Friday, when they begin their Spring Break trip in Los Angeles. The Hawks will face Fairleigh Dickinson (10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET) and the host Loyola Marymount Lions (12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET).