LOUDONVILLE, NY – Laneya Wright (Tucson, AZ/Marana) led the Rider University softball team with four hits on the day, but the Broncs were swept in a doubleheader at Siena, 2-0 and 5-2, Saturday. With the losses, the Broncs fall to 25-22-1 (8-8 MAAC), while the Saints are now 24-21 (10-6 MAAC).  

In Game 1, the Broncs limited the Saints to just two hits, but with the aid of two walks and three hit-by-pitches, Siena scored two runs in a 2-0 win. The first run came in the third, as the Saints got a leadoff hit-by-pitch that came around to score on a one-out double. In the fifth, it was a leadoff error that got things started, with a pair of groundouts and a hit-by-pitch preceding a double steal for the second run. Rider put a runner on third on three occasions in the game, but could not score, falling by a 2-0 score.

In Game 2, Rider immediately struck for two runs in the top of the first with Jessie Niegocki (Marana, AZ/Mountain View) reaching on an error to lead off the game, before an Amanda Cooper (Huntsville, TX/Huntsville) single and a groundout pushed the runners to second and third for Grace Stansfield (Philadelphia, PA/William Penn Charter), who plated both with a single to right field. But the two runs were all the Rider offense would produce on the day and Siena clawed back with a solo home run in the third, a bases-clearing double and a single and a pair of errors for an insurance tally in the fifth to take the 5-2 win and the doubleheader sweep.

Notes
- Niegocki went the distance in Game 1, allowing two runs, one earned, on two hits, two walks and three hit-by-pitches in 6.0 innings pitched in the loss. She struck out eight.
- Anna-Marie Groskritz (Granby, CT/Granby Memorial) took the loss in Game 2, allowing four earned runs on eight hits, while striking out one in 3.1 innings pitched.
- Brooklyn Trujillo-Quintana (Henderson, CO/Prairie View) pitched 2.2 innings in relief, allowing just one unearned run on one hit.
- Siena now leads the all-time series, 30-20. The two teams split a four-game series last year in Loudonville.
- The Broncs return to action Sunday, when they travel to Marist for a noon doubleheader.     

Broncs by the Numbers
- Wright went 4-for-7 with a double.  
- Brianna Koonce (Warminster, PA/William Tennent), Cooper, Niegocki and Stansfield had two hits each.
- Stansfield had the Broncs two RBI's on the day.
- Cooper and Niegocki each scored a run.
- Niegocki also walked twice to reach safely four times in eight plate appearances.
- Elena Gonzalez (Ashburn, VA/Stone Bridge) and Lani Moreno (Claremont, CA/Claremont) each added a hit, with Moreno's going for a triple.
- Olivia Burroughs (Escondido, CA/San Pasqual) also drew a walk.