RINDGE, N.H. - The Saint Michael's College softball team continued a run of 14 games in 11 days with a pair of losses to Franklin Pierce University, 12-4 in five innings and 8-0 in six innings, during Northeast-10 Conference action on Tuesday at the Melissa Bisaccia Memorial Softball Complex. The Purple Knights are 1-28 overall, 1-20 in the league and 0-15 in the Northeast Division, while the Ravens are 11-17, 9-11 and 7-9.

Senior Greer Lemnah (Lyndon Center, Vt./Lyndon Institute) was 2-for-3 for the visitors in game one, moving into a tie for 10th place in program history for career hits (104). Junior Sarah Murray (Wallingford, Conn./Sheehan) was 2-for-3 with an RBI and a double, and sophomore Danielle DelGreco (Lexington, Mass./Lexington) had a hit, a walk, a run and an RBI. Senior Lea Gipson (Bridport, Vt./Middlebury Union) took the loss, tossing 2.2 innings.

Sophomore Courtney Caputo (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville) went 4-for-4 with three runs, two RBIs, a double and a home run for Franklin Pierce, and first-year Sydney Despres (Sterling, Mass./Wachusett Regional) was 3-for-3 with two runs, two RBIs, a double and a home run. Sophomore Erin Wood (Dover, N.Y./Dover) finished 3-for-4 with two runs, two RBIs, a double and a home run. Classmate Mandi Adee (Kinderhook, N.Y./Ichabod Crane) allowed three earned runs on six hits in the five-inning win.

Lemnah led off the game with an infield single before Saint Michael's loaded the bases with no one out during a scoreless first inning, and Caputo and Despres both hit two-run home runs in the home half. The Purple Knights plated three runs in the third to cut their deficit to 4-3, with senior Bethany Falls (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex) and Murray knocking consecutive two-out RBI singles. Franklin Pierce pulled away with seven runs on eight hits and five errors in the bottom half. Wood's two-run homer was the only multiple-RBI hit in the frame.

DelGreco grounded out in the fourth to score senior Grace Bonaiuto (Beverly, Mass./Austin Preparatory School), who had led off with a walk, but Wood's one-out RBI double in the fifth invoked the eight-run mercy rule.

Falls and Murray both went 1-for-2 in the nightcap, and first-year Jane Erlandson (Georgetown, Mass./Georgetown) allowed five runs in three innings to take the loss.

First-year Mikaela Ballmer (Birdsboro, Pa./Daniel Boone) was 3-for-3 with two RBIs for the Ravens, Caputo finished 2-for-3 with two runs, and Wood hit a two-run home run off the bench. Sophomore Tricia Hansen (Mansfield, Mass./Mansfield) tossed a two-hit shutout over six innings, striking out seven.

Franklin Pierce scored three runs on four straight hits in the first inning before Falls and Murray recorded consecutive hits with one out in the second, but Hansen retired both batters representing the tying run, and the hosts tacked on two runs on Ballmer's two-out double in the third. Wood's two-run home run highlighted a three-run sixth.

Saint Michael's heads to Saint Anselm College for a 3 p.m. twinbill tomorrow.