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Box Score 2 LISLE, Ill. -- The final doubleheader of the 2014 season ended with a pair of losses for the Alverno College Inferno, falling to the host Benedictine University Eagles, 5-4 and 9-1, Saturday afternoon.
The Inferno (12-25, 7-15 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference) scored four runs in the top of the fourth for a 4-0 lead, but the Eagles scored five unanswered over the next three innings for the comeback victory.
Alexis Botsford began the fourth with a leadoff hit and Emily Ortner sent her home with an RBI-hit. Ashleigh Sagat plated Ortner on the next at bat with a hit up the middle, and two batters later Sagat scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-0. Megan Rossi singled to right field to score Kristin Holub for the Inferno's final run of the inning, and was called out on a close play at home plate two batters later after Stephanie Skibba's base hit.
The Eagles (28-11, 16-6 NACC) got on the board with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning, and tied things up after an Inferno error eventually led to a pair of unearned runs in the fifth.
A leadoff single by the Eagles in the sixth would come around to score and would be the game's final run.
Although Erin Dulek (7-15) allowed five runs in the loss, just one was earned due to a pair of errors. Katie McKay (3-3) picked up the win for the Eagles in 2.2 innings of relief.
In game two, Ortner extended her hitting streak to 13 games with a first-inning triple, and scored on a wild pitch for the lone Alverno run of the game.
Sagat also tripled in the fourth inning for her last career hit, but was unable to be brought home.
The Eagles scored four runs in the third, and added five more over the next three innings to end the game in six innings on 10 hits and four Alverno errors.
Rossi (5-10) allowed seven runs, four earned, in the loss, while Holly Haberkorn (10-2) went four innings in the circle for the win.
Alverno concludes the season in ninth place in the NACC standings, four games back of qualifying for the conference tournament.