Softball

Robert Morris College-Chicago 6, Delaware Valley College 3
Dickinson College 4, Delaware Valley College 2

TUCSON (AZ) - The Delaware Valley College softball team opened its 2008 season with a pair of losses on its first Spring Break trip to Arizona. The Aggies began Friday with a 6-3 loss to Robert Morris College-Chicago and ended the day with a 4-2 setback to Dickinson College.

Delaware Valley, which has all but one starter back from last year's Freedom Conference semifinalist team, has spent previous spring breaks in South Carolina and Florida, but raised money to fly out West this season. The start was not as it hoped as Robert Morris-Chicago (9-1) scored five runs in the opening inning and never looked back.

Kelly Andrews knocked in all three runs for the Aggies with a bases-clearing double in the fifth inning to make it a 6-3 ballgame. However, they did not get a hit the rest of the way and finished the game with just three as Maureen Ferguson notched a double and Kim Harle had a single. Jennifer Bummer suffered the loss.

In the Dickinson (6-5) contest, Harle had a two-out, two-run single in the fourth inning to tie it up at 2-2. However, the Devils scored twice in the sixth and made it stand the rest of the way.

Harle finished 2-for-4 with the two RBIs. Lauren Fenstermacher went 2-for-3 while Bethany Pavlik was 2-for-4. Kirstyn Ruhling took the loss despite allowing just two earned runs and five hits over six innings.