LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The HFU softball team suffered a pair of walk-off defeats by identical 2-3 score-lines, the first of which came in eight innings, at defending Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) champion Georgian Court on Wednesday. 
 
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As the six seed in the CACC Tournament, HFU will travel right back to third-seeded Georgian Court for a potential doubleheader on Saturday at 12 p.m. The Tigers will need to win the first game to force a second, and then win the second to advance to the following weekend's four-team double-elimination tournament also hosted by Georgian Court. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Makenna Patterson (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) went the distance in game one, surrendering just one earned run on seven hits in 7.1 innings. She struck out seven against just two base on balls
• Paige Tidaback (Carteret, N.J./St. Thomas Aquinas) and Sam Ciasullo (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) combined not to allow an earned run in the nightcap, with Tidaback going the first three innings and Ciasullo pitching the final 3.2
  • Both gave up just three hits
• Madison Grubb (Swedesboro, N.J./Kingsway) reached twice in both games, finishing the doubleheader 3-for-7 with a walk, two runs and RBI 
• Alexis Letizia (Toms River, N.J./Donovan Catholic) and Rylee Hobel (Coopersburg, Pa./Southern Lehigh) both finished 1-for-2 with a run scored in the opener, while Lauren Hagy (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan) drove in both runs in game two

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family pitching allowed just one earned run over 14.0 frames

 
How it Happened 
Game One

• An error aided GCU not only advancing the first runner into scoring position in the contest in the third, but in opening the scoring on a two-RBI single with two outs
  • It would have been 0-3 if not for left fielder Hagy, third baseman Grubb and catcher Letizia executing a relay that cut down a Lion at the plate for the third out
• Patterson then stranded the bases loaded in the fourth, and the HFU offense awoke to tie the game in the fifth after Letizia led off with a double
  • Following the first out, three consecutive singles by Hobel, Grubb and Kylee Jones (Hulmeville, Pa./Neshaminy (Rider)) made it 2-2
• Each team had a runner reach scoring position once until a walk off homer with one out in the eighth, with the Tigers doing so in the seventh after a leadoff single by Letizia and sacrifice bunt with one out
• Patterson faced the minimum in both the sixth and seventh prior to the home run

Game Two

• Grubb led off the game with a walk, leading to HFU's first advantage of the afternoon following a sacrifice bunt by Jones and Hagy's two-out single
• It took just two batters for GCU to equalize in the second thanks to back-to-back singles and an error  
• The Tigers came right back in the third through Grubb and Hagy though, as Grubb led off with a single before later coming around on Hagy's RBI groundout
• Tidaback worked a scoreless third and Ciasullo took over from there, retiring nine of the first 10 she faced with 1-2-3 frames in the fourth and sixth
• Holy Family could not add to lead and it paid the price when a leadoff error in the bottom of the seventh led to two unearned runs