SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Wrapping up a four-game series that began over the weekend, the Pace University softball team dropped a pair of one-run contests at AIC on Tuesday afternoon.

Game One – AIC 7, Pace 6
The Yellow Jackets battled back from a 5-0 deficit in the first contest of the day, scoring three runs in the fourth inning and four more in the fifth.

Freshman Kaylani Miller (Los Angeles, Calif./Village Christian) and junior Gwen Pederson (Sylmar, Calif./Granada Hills Charter) each put together 2-for-3 efforts at the plate, while combining to score three runs. Miller capped off a three-run third inning with an RBI single through the right side—which provided the Setters with a 5-0 edge.

Sophomores Arianna Guarracino (Middletown, NY/Minisink Valley) and Juliet Bernstein (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) also registered RBI base hits in Game One.

Senior pitcher Mackenzie Garrick (South River, N.J./South River) tossed the complete six innings in the circle, allowing four earned runs.

Game Two – AIC 2, Pace 1
It was the Setters who were on the comeback trail in the finale. After allowing a run in the first inning, Pace knotted the score up at 1-1 in the sixth.

Guarracino served as the tying run, crossing home plate on an RBI double from classmate Carolina Iturriaga (North Hills, Calif./Grover Cleveland). Iturriaga finished 2-for-2 at the plate in the second game.

Following Pace evening the score in the sixth, AIC was able to walk off to victory in the bottom of the seventh.

Freshman pitcher Anna Acevedo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Fontbonne Hall Academy) pitched well in a losing effort, allowing just two earned runs across 6.1 innings of work.

Up Next
The Setters return home to host Saint Rose for a four-game series, beginning on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m.