TAMPA, Fla. – The Embry-Riddle softball team had their eight-game win streak snapped on Saturday afternoon as the Eagles dropped a doubleheader against the Tampa Spartans. The Eagles fell in game one by a final score of 4-1 and lost game two 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth. ERAU falls to 25-8 overall and 13-5 in Sunshine State Conference play while Tampa improves to 19-13 overall and 10-8 in SSC play.
 
Game 1
 
The Eagles only managed six hits in game one, scoring just one run in the first inning. Maggie Scott hit a bunt single to lead things off. Katy Thompson hit a single to left allowing Scott to advance to second. Kailah Rain hit an RBI double to knock in Maggie Scott, giving ERAU a 1-0 lead. Tampa tied the game in the bottom of the third with an RBI single up the middle. Going into the fourth the score was even at 1-1.
 
The teams went scoreless in the fourth an fifth inning as there were only four baserunners combined. The Eagles had a chance to score in the top of the sixth as Mackie Chandler started the inning with a single up the middle. Katy Thompson picked up her second hit of the game with another single through the left side, advancing Chandler to second. Mariana Pereira laid down a sacrifice bunt that advanced Chandler to third and Thompson to second. However, Rain proceeded to strike out and Peqe Lopez flew out to center to end the inning.
 
Tampa did not waste their opportunity to score in the sixth inning, scoring three runs in the frame. The Spartans scored three runs off two doubles giving Tampa a 4-1 lead going into the top of the seventh. Embry-Riddle picked up another hit off an Eryn Chester pinch-hit single. Unfortunately, Chester was left stranded and the Eagles lost 4-1.
 
Jayla Jackson started and picked up her second loss of the season for the Blue and Gold. Jackson pitched well, going six innings while allowing eight hits, four runs (three earned), and six strikeouts. Katy Thompson went 2-3 with two singles, Kailah Rain drove in the only run of the game as she hit 1-3, and Maggie Scott scored the only run, going 1-4.
 
Game 2
 
The second game of the afternoon was a pitching duel the entire way through, as the teams scored a combined three runs in the contest. The Eagles scored their first and only run of the game in the top of the second with an RBI double by Destiny Carroll to score Kailah Rain. Embry-Riddle held the lead all the way until the bottom of the fourth as Tampa scored on a bases-loaded hit by pitch, tying the game at 1-1 going into the fifth.
 
The Eagles managed to load the bases in the in the top of the fifth thanks to three singles by Lisa Hop, Maggie Scott, and Mackie Chandler. Unfortunately, ERAU could not capitalize and stranded all three runners. Neither team scored in the sixth and seventh inning, forcing the game into extra innings tied at 1-1. The Eagles and the Spartans went scoreless again in the eighth inning and the Blue and Gold could not score in the ninth inning as well.
 
Tampa scored one run in the bottom of the ninth due to a costly throwing error and two wild pitches. The Eagles lost by a final score of 2-1. Ilona Andringa pitched the entire way for the ERAU, picking up her sixth loss of the season. Andringa pitched eight and third, allowed six hits, two runs (one earned), walked two and struck out five.
 
Mackie Chandler went 2-4 with two singles. Eryn Chester and Katy Thompson both went 1-3. Maggie Scott, Lisa Hop, and Destiny Carroll all hit 1-4. Embry-Riddle returns to action on Thursday, March 29 to take on Sunshine State Conference foe Palm Beach Atlantic. The two schools will play a three-game series in West Palm Beach, with one game on Thursday and a doubleheader on Friday. First pitch of Friday's game is scheduled for 6 pm.