COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College softball team played its second home twinbill in as many days on Sunday, falling twice to The College of Saint Rose, 4-2 and 2-1, in Northeast-10 Conference play on Doc Jacobs Field. The Purple Knights are winless through 22 contests, including 12 in the NE-10, while the Golden Knights are 7-16 and 5-8.

First-year Judi Barcavage (Cold Spring, N.Y./Haldane) finished 2-for-3 in game one for the hosts, while senior Lindsay Houston (Concord, N.H./Concord) ripped an RBI double. Junior Greer Lemnah (Lyndon Center, Vt./Lyndon Institute) singled and stole a base, while classmate Amanda Brigante (Colchester, Vt./Colchester) drove in a run. Senior Stephanie Frank (Essex, Vt./Essex) yielded two earned runs during a complete game, striking out three and walking one.

Sophomore Kari Bird (New Rochelle, N.Y./The Ursuline School) had the lone RBI for the Golden Knights, while first-year Meghan Reynolds (Pelham, N.Y./Pelham) went 1-for-2 with a run, a walk and a steal. Classmate Nicole Wickham (Greenville, N.Y./Greenville) allowed two runs on eight hits during seven innings, fanning five.

Saint Rose broke through for a pair of runs in the third, with Bird singling home the first before being part of a double steal that scored the second. A two-out error plated two more in the fourth, making it 4-0. Saint Michael's put at least one runner on base during three of the first four scoreless innings before Brigante's groundout scored senior Brittany Cantore (Saint Johnsbury, Vt./Saint Johnsbury Academy) in the fifth. Frank and Barcavage singled leading off the sixth before a line-drive double play limited the rally, and the hosts settled for one run on Houston's double.

Home runs accounted for all of the scoring in game two, as sophomore Sarah Murray (Wallingford, Conn./Sheehan) drilled her second homer of the year during a 2-for-3 contest, adding a double. First-year Jessica Niles (Chaumont, N.Y./General Brown) allowed two runs during the loss, scattering five hits and striking out two.

Sophomore Alexis Williams (Columbus, Ohio/Worthington Kilbourne) cracked a two-run homer for the visitors, while classmate Anna Carey (East Greenbush, N.Y./Columbia) earned the win after surrendering just three hits.

Only two Golden Knights reached in the opening three frames, and Cantore came up with a key play from right field during the fourth to catch the lead runner on a fielder's choice for the second out. However, Williams immediately followed with a two-run shot to left center. From there, Niles held Saint Rose to a 2-for-12 showing.

Murray broke up Carey's no-hitter with a line-drive double to left field with one down in the fifth that got caught in the swirling wind and forced the fielder to dive. Her solo home run came with two out in the seventh to draw her team within one, but the final batter grounded out.

Saint Michael's is back in NE-10 Northeast Division action on Wednesday when it heads to Southern New Hampshire University for a 4 p.m. doubleheader.