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Buffalo, NY - The Mount Aloysius softball team saw its season come to an end on Saturday at the AMCC Softball Championships at D'Youville College. The Mounties fell 2-0 to Penn State Behrend in their opening game of the tournament on Friday. Mount Aloysius then defeated La Roche 6-4 in an elimination game on Saturday morning, but lost 8-0 to Penn State Altoona on Saturday afternoon to end their hopes of a conference championship.

Game one against Behrend featured a pitcher's duel between the Mounties Morgan Rackish and the Lions Rachel Miller. The two pitchers combined to allow just 12 hits on the day. Behrend scored single runs in the first and fourth innings, and Mount Aloysius wasn't able to rally late in the defeat.

Kaleigh Roop registered two hits for the Mounties in the opening game, while Taylor Swatsworth and Hannah Simpson each had one hit. Rackish pitched six innings and gave up eight hits and two earned runs.

Mount Aloysius then knocked off La Roche in dramatic fashion on Saturday. Neither side hit the scoreboard untl a Redhawk run in the bottom of the fourth, and the Mounties tied it up 1-1 after Leanne Cardoso-Bastos lasered a triple in the top of the fifth that scored Simpson. Down 2-1, the Mounties scored three runs in their next at-bat to take a 4-2 advantage. After hitting a double, Swatsworth scored on a Karly Klein RBI single. Klein then came around on a groundout, and Roop knocked in Hayley McGowan with a single up the middle to complete the inning's scoring.

The Redhawks came right back with two runs of their own to tie the game 4-4. To lead off the seventh inning, Kate Little walked and Alexandria Teeter doubled to put runners on second and third. La Roche committed two errors that scored both Little and Teeter to make it a 6-4 ballgame. Rackish then sealed the win with a scoreless seventh inning for the Mounties. 

Cardoso-Bastos and Simpson led the way with two hits apiece against La Roche.

The Mounties advanced to their second elimination game of the day later in the afternoon on Saturday. Mount Aloysius saw its postseason run come to an end as Altoona scored runs in all but one of their at-bats while limiting the Mounties to two hits for the game.

Following the conclusion of the tournament, Rackish and Cardoso-Bastos were named to the AMCC All-Tournament Team.

Mount Aloysius concludes its season with an overall record of 20-22, and the program advanced to postseason play for the ninth consecutive season.