HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Drew University softball team lost a pair of close games at Haverford College in a non-conference doubleheader Sunday afternoon.
 
The Fords captured the opener 6-3, then won the second game 4-3 on a walk-off solo home run.
 
In the first game, the Rangers took a 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI-single by junior Josie Di Troia. But Haverford (14-13) scored four runs over the first three innings to assume a 4-1 lead.
 
Drew made it a 4-3 game in the fourth, when junior Aurora Marino got things started with a one-out double before senior Teagan Bradley and junior Olivia Magliacano each singled home a run.
 
Haverford set the final score with two runs in the fifth.
 
Senior MacKenzie Pisani led the Rangers at the plate, finishing 3-for-4 with a double, while Magliacano and Di Troia added two hits each. Bradley started in the circle and pitched four innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits while striking out two. Sophomore Allie Porbansky tossed the final two innings, yielding two runs on three hits.
 
The second game was a pitcher's duel between freshman Gabby Duran and Haverford's Lauren Lamme in the early going, and it was a 1-1 game heading into the sixth inning.
 
Drew scored in the top of the first, when Magliacano led off with a single and eventually scored on a single from Pisani. Haverford tied it with a run in the third.
 
The Rangers chased Lamme in the sixth, when it put two runners on base with one out. But Magliacano put the Rangers up 2-1 with an RBI-single.
 
Haverford came back with two runs in the bottom half to go up 3-2, but Drew tied it up in the top of the seventh, when Di Troia walked before going on to score on a groundout by junior Zoey Shimp. But Kama Bode led off the bottom of the inning with game-winning homer.
 
Magliacano, Shimp, and sophomore Destiny Medina each posted two hits in the second game. Duran went the distance in the circle and yielded four runs on 11 hits while striking out three.
 
The Rangers return to Landmark Conference play on Tuesday, when they host the University of Scranton in a makeup doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.