PHILADELPHIA -- Senior shortstop Ashleigh Tavaska (Jackson, N.J.) had two hits and and RBI and sophomore righthander Katie O'Connor (Charlottesville, Va.) pitched a complete-game five hitter, but the Caldwell softball campaign came to a close with a 3-1 defeat at the hands of fourth-seeded Jefferson at Jefferson Softball Field on Sunday.

A first-inning Cougars error led to two unearned runs in three-run frame by the Rams (15-24), who as the host team needed to win one game in the series against the fifth-seeded Cougars to advance. Caldwell (24-24) got one of the runs back in the third on an RBI single by Tavaska, plating senior 2B Grace Vondracek (Odessa, N.Y.).

But CU would get just one more hit the rest of the game, a one-out single by freshman RF Lexi Weiss (Norristown, Pa.).

O'Connor was superb on the mound, permitting just one hit and two baserunners after the second inning in recording her ninth complete game in her 14 starts this season.

The game ends the illustrious Caldwell careers of five Cougars, including Tavaska, who finishes fourth in school history in hits (259), fifth in home runs (22), eighth in batting average (.389), third in RBI (182), fifth in doubles (60), first in triples (16), sixth in runs (149), ninth in SB (45), first in total bases (417) and fifth in slugging (.627).

In Vondracek's two-year Caldwell stint, she ranks first in batting (.475), third in stolen bases (61), including a single-season record 42 this year, and 10th in slugging (.595).

Jess Klein end in the top 20 in hits, runs, stolen bases (2nd), batting and triples.