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WILMINGTON, Del. – The Caldwell College softball team split a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader at Goldey-Beacom College, winning 12-1 and losing 2-1, Saturday afternoon at the Jackson Athletic Complex. The Cougars, who are ranked 17th in the NFCA Division II Top 25 Poll, are now 33-8 overall and 21-3 in the conference. The Lightning are now 10-28, 6-16 CACC.

In the first game, a two-run triple by senior Dia Cascone (Staten Island, NY/Susan Wagner) sparked a five-run first inning for Caldwell. Sophomores Alyssa Calderon (Fontana, CA/Etiwanda) and Briana Gaspich (Brick, NJ/Brick Memorial) and freshman Brielle Reighn (Runnemeade, NJ/Triton Reg.) also drove in runs in the inning. After Goldey-Beacom scored a run in the bottom of the first, Gaspich hit a two-run double, and Cascone and Reighn had RBI singles in the top of the second to put the Cougars ahead, 9-1. Three more runs in the third, including a run-scoring single by Cascone, made it 12-1.

Reighn went 3-for-4 with two runs and three RBI and Cascone and Gaspich drove in three runs apiece, as the Cougars had 11 hits. Senior pitcher Kourtney Wilson (Islip, NY/St. Anthony's) allowed an unearned run on three hits over three innings to improve to 15-3.

The Caldwell bats struggled in the second game, managing just three hits off Lightning pitcher Courtney Dolson. The Cougars scored a run in the top of the second inning, when Calderon came home from third on an error. In the bottom of the second, Ashley Antosh hit a sacrifice fly to plate Samantha Alonzo and tie the score at 1-1. Then in the third, Asia Ellis hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded to bring home Michelle Foster with what would be the game-winning run.

Caldwell didn't record a hit after the second inning until the top of the seventh, when Gaspich walked and sophomore Megan Fryday (San Marcos, CA/Mission Hills) hit a double to put runners at second and third with two out. But Dolson retired the final batter on a pop-up to close out the win.

Sophomore Hanna Walkinshaw (Aptos, CA/Aptos) gave up two runs on eight hits in six innings for Caldwell, which has recorded fewer than four hits in just three games this season.

Caldwell hosts Pace University in a non-conference doubleheader on Sunday, Apr. 21, beginning at 12:00 p.m. at Caldwell Field.