The Georgetown women’s softball team continued their losing ways Wednesday night, dropping both games of a double-header against George Mason.
“I know I hate losing, and I think they hate losing,” Head Coach Pat Conlan said. “But we’re playing teams that have veteran line-ups and we’ve got too many holes out on the field and weaknesses all over the place, so that, with our youth, it is not a good combination.”
The Hoyas struggled offensively and defensively throughout the day.
“We didn’t hit well, we didn’t play defense well. Overall we didn’t play good softball today,” Conlan said.
In the first game the Hoyas struggled to get the game started. Mason took an early seven-run lead, and managed to keep the Hoyas scoreless until the fourth inning. Georgetown plated their first two runs off a single into center from freshman right-hander Jennifer Connell. The Hoyas brought in one more run before the end of the inning.
Neither team could produce anything in the fifth, after the Patriots’ left-fielder robbed Georgetown of a lead-off homerun. Both teams were three up and three down in the sixth. In the seventh inning, Mason led off with a homerun to seal the 8-3 victory in the opener.
George Mason jumped out to another early lead in the second leg of the double-header, scoring two runs in the second inning off of Georgetown fielding errors. The Hoyas replied in the third, bringing in three runs to take a 3-2 lead. But George Mason came right back in the fourth to tie the game.
The score remained tied until the top of the seventh, when the Patriots’ Lesley Hassen brought in two runners with a hit into left field. Two more players scored when Kristen Dickel hit a fly ball into center field. The Hoyas could not mount a late comeback, falling 7-3.
“We just had another defensive lapse, and that allows people to get base runners and put people in scoring positions,” Conlan said of the second game. “It’s never the big hit that hurts us, it’s all the little stuff that happens before it.”
Georgetown (8-35) will look to bounce back with a doubleheader against LaSalle in Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.
