LEESBURG, Fla. – It was a tough Monday for the Bentley University softball team down in Florida at the Spring Games as they dropped a pair of non-conference games, 6-1 to Saint Thomas Aquinas College and 7-3 to Purdue-Northwest.

STAC sophomore Abbie Landrum (Buena Park, Calif.) pitched a two-hitter with both Falcon safeties coming in the seventh inning. Sophomore pinch-hitter Katie Welch (Monroe, Conn./Masuk HS) led off the final inning with a single to right and later scored on a single in the same direction by sophomore designated player Dahlia Fink (Sherman Oaks, Calif./Notre Dame HS).

The Spartans (5-2) took the early lead with two runs in the first and one in the second, and opened it up with a three-run sixth. The middle infield shined at the plate with freshman second baseman Elyse Marcano (Middletown, N.Y.) and freshman shortstop Adriana Coira (San Juan, P.R.) had two hits and two RBI.

Against PNW, Bentley took a 3-2 lead with three runs in the bottom of the first. The five-hit inning included a two-run single by Welch and an RBI single by senior third baseman Jess Trahan (Merrimack, N.H./Merrimack HS).

The Pride regained the lead with two in the second and added three insurance runs in the seventh.

Graduate designated hitter Ella Hillier (Tualatin, Ore./Tualatin HS) was the only Falcon to have multiple hits, finishing with two.

Junior Abbie May (LaSalle, Ill.) was outstanding in relief for PNW, allowing only two hits and no runs in 6.2 innings.

Bentley, 6-4, is back at it Tuesday with games against Molloy at 9 am and Shepherd at 11:15.