DELAND, FL – Monica Clark (Bryn Mawr, PA/Archbishop Carroll) and Maddy Chain (Gloucester, NJ/Gloucester City) had four hits each, including the 100th of Clark's career, but the Rider University softball team was swept in a doubleheader at Stetson Tuesday afternoon. With the losses, the Broncs fall to 2-13, while the Hatters improve to 18-9.
 
The Hatters took Game 1, 5-1, on the strength of two runs in the fourth, another in the fifth and two more in the sixth. The Broncs scored their lone run in the fifth. Brianna Parisio (Sayreville, NJ/Sayreville War Memorial) reached on an infield single and was replaced on the basepaths following a fielder's choice off the bat of Toni Nino (Adelanto, CA/Silverado). Nino stole second and scored on a dropped fly ball. But the lone run was all the Broncs would score.

In Game 2, Stetson took a 2-0 lead with single runs in the first and second innings, before the Broncs struck for three runs in the top of the third. Cuttic, Clark and Kiera Swank (Bear, DE/Caravel Academy) each contributed run-scoring base hits in the rally, as the Broncs took a 3-2 lead. But the Hatters would even the score in the bottom of the fourth, score two more in the fifth to take the lead and cushioned the advantage with a run in the sixth.

The Broncs scored twice in the top of the seventh to pull to within a run on an RBI single from Clark and a run-scoring groundout from Swank. But Stetson closed out the 6-5 win and the sweep.  
 
NOTES
- Emily Oltman (Collegeville, PA/Perkiomen Valley) started Game 1 and went five innings, allowing four earned runs on five hits and eight walks. She struck out five.
- Debra Jones (Bordentown, NJ/Bordentown) pitched an inning of relief in Game 1, allowing an earned run on two hits and a walk. She also finished Game 2 with 1.1 innings pitched, allowing just an unearned run. She didn't allow a hit, just one walk and struck out two.
- Elyse Cuttic (Easton, PA/Bethlehem Catholic) started Game 2 in the circle, allowing five runs, three earned, on seven hits and a walk in 4.2 innings.
- The Broncs return to action March 22, when they play host to Villanova in a doubleheader. First pitch is slated for 2:30 p.m. at Herb & Joan Young Field.
 
BRONCS BY THE NUMBERS
- Monica Clark (Bryn Mawr, PA/Archbishop Carroll) went 2-for-3 to lead the Broncs in Game 1 and followed it up with a 2-for-4 effort with two RBI's in Game 2.
- Nino, Maddy Chain (Gloucester, NJ/Gloucester City) and Parisio each added a hit in Game 1.
- Chain went 3-for-3 in Game 2 with a pair of runs scored.
- Cuttic went 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.
- Nino, Swank and Rachael Zeides (Woodbine, NJ/Ocean City) each had one hit in Game 2.