SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The St. Bonaventure softball team dropped a pair of contests to UNC Wilmington and Wofford on Saturday as part of the Wofford Invitational.
 
The Bonnies fell by a score of 8-1 to UNCW in the first game of the day, finishing out the weekend's action with a loss to the hosting Terriers, 6-3.
 
Game 1 – UNCW 8, St. Bonaventure 1
The Seahawks opened the scoring in the bottom of the second with an RBI single right back up the middle.
 
UNCW (4-4) extended its lead to 5-0 in the third on a single, a triple and a home run.
 
The Bonnies were able to pull one back in the top of the fourth when Abigail Ahern singled home Ella Amato.
 
The Seahawks responded with two runs in the fourth to take a 7-1 lead before adding an eighth run in the fifth.
 
Lauren Dundon, Grace Miller, Nolah Moyer, Kendall Stull and Sydney DeGram also registered hits for the Brown and White.
 
Ava Lomelin and Mackenzie Frani tossed three innings each, combining for three strikeouts.
 
Game 2 – Wofford 6, St. Bonaventure 3
The Terriers got on the board first in the second game of the day, pushing two runs across the plate in the bottom of the second inning after two sacrifice bunts helped put runners in scoring position.
 
The Bonnies (0-9) responded in the top of the third inning as  Ahern reached on a fielder's choice. After advancing to third following some fielding woes for Wofford, she was batted in by fellow sophomore Lauren Dundon to put SBU's first run on the board.
 
Wofford responded with a successful bottom of the fourth frame, adding three more runs and extending the lead to 5-1.
 
After a scoreless fifth frame, the Terriers punched in their final score of the day after Lauren Archambault and Kate Platt notched back-to-back doubles.
 
Bonaventure continued fighting down the stretch, posting two more runs in the bottom of the seventh before eventually running out of opportunities. Those two scores came as sophomore Nolah Moyer and junior Eleanor Park registered back-to-back doubles to ignite a last inning rally. Moyer scored on Park's knock, and the junior was waved around after freshman Colsten Beers tripled down the right field line. With a runner standing at third, Wofford snuffed out the rally with a strikeout to end the game. 
 
Sophomores Mackenzie Frani and Ava Lomelin each appeared in the circle for the Bonnies in game two and they both registered a strikeout.
  
UP NEXT
The Bonnies resume play on Friday, Feb. 20 as they take on James Madison and Towson at East Carolina for the start of a five-game tournament.