RIVERDALE, NY – The Rider University softball team scored five runs in the top of the seventh in Game 1, but was swept in a doubleheader at Manhattan Sunday afternoon. With the losses, the Broncs slip to 6-32 (3-7 MAAC), while the Jaspers are now 14-22 (3-7 MAAC).

In Game 1, the Jaspers jumped out to a 7-0 lead with two runs in the first, four more in the second and another in the fourth. The Broncs responded with five runs in the seventh, with the first six batters all reaching. Kelsey Marigliano (Seaford, NY/Plainledge) doubled and Gianna Epps (Pottstown, PA/Pottstown) singled her home with the Broncs' first run. Grace Stansfield (Philadelphia, PA/William Penn Charter) walked and Shelby Miller (Roseville, CA/Whitney) followed with an RBI ground-rule double. Walks to Lani Moreno (Claremont, CA/Claremont) and Rachael Zeides (Woodbine, NJ/Ocean City) forced in the Broncs' third run, before Maddy Chain's (Gloucester, NJ/Gloucester City) groundout scored the fourth. Elyse Cuttic (Easton, PA/Bethlehem Catholic) hit a sacrifice fly to bring in the fifth run, but the Broncs' comeback bid fell just short after that.

Game 2 was all Manhattan. The Jaspers scored two runs in the first, three in the third and three more in the fifth to abbreviate the game. Meanwhile, Manhattan pitcher Kayla McDermott spun a complete-game, one-hit shutout. She allowed just four Rider base runners on a hit and three walks, with the lone hit for the Broncs, a Kiera Swank (Bear, DE/Caravel Academy) coming in Rider's final at bats in the top of the fifth.

QUOTES & NOTES
"We just didn't have anything today. We started the day flat and although we put up some fight at the end of Game 1, we just never could figure out how to get ourselves going. We are missing fire and grit as a collective whole and it was exposed this afternoon." – Rider Head Coach Davon Ortega

- Debra Jones (Bordentown, NJ/Bordentown) started Game 1 in the circle for the Broncs and took the loss, allowing five earned runs on four hits and a walk in 1.2 innings pitched. She struck out one.
- Brooklyn Trujillo (Henderson, CO/Prairie View) pitched 4.1 innings of relief, allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits and two walks, while striking out one.
- Cuttic got the Game 2 start in the circle and struggled to locate her pitches, walking seven and allowing four hits for five earned runs in 2.2 innings pitched. She struck out one.
- Emily Oltman (Collegeville, PA/Perkiomen Valley) also pitched two innings of relief in Game 2, allowing three earned runs on four hits and two walks, while striking out one.
- The Broncs return to action Wednesday, when they play host to Fairleigh Dickinson. First pitch of the doubleheader from Herb and Joan Young Field is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.     

BRONCS BY THE NUMBERS
- Swank, Marigliano, Epps and Miller accounted for the Broncs' four hits on the day.
- Moreno and Stansfield also walked twice each, while Marigliano and Zeides had one base on balls each.
- Chain was hit by a pitch.
- Marigliano, Epps, Miller, Moreno and Stansfield scored one run each.
- Epps, Miller, Zeides, Chain and Cuttic each one had RBI.