VERONA, Wis. – Starting pitcher Shannon Whitmus and the Edgewood College softball team battled, but fell short in a 3-0, 10-inning defeat in game one against MSOE on Sunday afternoon. The Eagles dropped game two, 7-0, after being held to three hits in the night cap.

It was the Battle of the Shannons in game one as the pair of starting pitchers combined to strike out 24 batters against just two walks in a low-scoring affair. MSOE's Shannon Curtis finished with a career-high 18 strikeouts and allowed just five hits while Whitmus gave up nine hits, including eight singles, and three runs (one earned), to go with six strikeouts.

The Raiders (25-9, 14-4 NACC) broke open a scoreless game by capitalizing on a pair of leadoff errors to start the 10th inning. MSOE catcher Emily Snow followed up with a 2-run triple and later scored on an RBI squeeze bunt to push the lead to 3-0. The Eagles (4-30, 1-17 NACC) came up empty in the bottom half, but had their opportunities after leaving two runners stranded in both the seventh and ninth innings.

Five players registered one hit apiece for an Eagle offense that struck out 18 times against Curtis.

Tough pitching stymied the Eagle bats as they generated just three hits in game two of a 7-0 defeat.

MSOE scored two runs in the second, fifth, and seventh innings to pull away for their seventh straight win. Raider starting pitcher Liz Gale tossed a complete-game shutout as the Eagles lost their fourth straight heading into the final weekend of the season.

Grace Delleman was the only Eagle to register a hit in both games, but took the loss on the mound in the second complete game of her career.

The Eagles head to Alverno this Friday, April 28 at 3:00 p.m., then wrap up their season at home against Marian University on Sunday, April 30 at 12:00 p.m.