ROTTERDAM, NY – The College of Saint Rose softball was team was swept in a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader by visiting Southern Connecticut State at Esposito Field tonight. The Owls (17-3/6-0 NE-10) have now won 15 of their last 17 to remain atop the league standings.

Southern Connecticut scored two runs with two down in the seventh to take the opener, and then pushed across five runs in both the fourth and seventh frames of the nightcap.

Saint Rose jumped out to a 4-0 lead of the first game with a four run, second inning. Freshman center fielder Courtney Galuski did most of the damage via a two RBI single. Southern Connecticut sent 10 batters to the plate in the top of the third when the Owls managed to push across five runs, but the Golden Knights scored two more times to take a 6-5 lead in the fifth. Senior shortstop Ashley Anderson stroked a double to the gap in the left-center and then junior catcher Amanda Morano followed with a two-run homer over the center field fence.

However, the Owls had the final say in the seventh when junior shortstop Megan Caporossi doubled in a run, before scoring the eventual winner one batter later on a single to left by senor first baseman Brittany Gandley.

Sophomore designated player Alyssa Farrell had a pair of base hits in three at-bats for the Golden Knights, while Caporossi and Gandley both went 3-for-5 on the strength of back-to-back home runs in the third for the Owls.

In the finale, Southern Connecticut took advantage of two Saint Rose errors to push across five runs in the fourth after the Golden Knights had manufactured a run in the third. Saint Rose whittled its deficit to 5-3 in the fifth thanks to a two RBI base hit by Morano, but the Owls broke it open with five more runs in the seventh.

Morano drove in all three Saint Rose runs, while freshman right fielder Alyssa Pagano went 3-for-5 and senior catcher Christina Wolf belted her second home run of the evening with a two-run shot in the seventh to pace Southern Connecticut.

Saint Rose returns to action Thursday when the Golden Knights travel to American International for a 3:00 pm NE-10 doubleheader in Springfield. Meanwhile, Southern Connecticut State has a 2:30 pm non-conference twin-bill at NYIT on Long Island tomorrow.

Box Score - Game 1; Box Score - Game 2