WATERBURY, Conn.  – The Post University softball team saw its four-game win streak snapped on Monday with two losses to Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) foe Dominican. The Eagles are now 10-14 overall and 8-4 in conference play.
 
Game One – Dominican 13, Post 8
The afternoon did not get off to a great start for the Eagles as Dominican exploded for an 11-run first inning. The Eagles would not go down without a fight as they got three runs back in the bottom of the first.
 
Sophomore Leyri Rivera (Dover, N.J.) singled to open the game and later scored on an error. Senior Sara Selimovski (Watertown, Conn.) drove home a run on a base hit down the line in left. Back-to-back walks to freshman Brittany Giordano (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and senior Kailyn Biello (Watertown, Conn.) made the score 11-3 after one.
 
The bats were quiet on both sides over the next three innings. Post was able to ward off a run-rule loss, scoring three more in the fourth. Biello has hit by a pitch to start the inning and came home after singles by sophomore Skylar Devorin (Millville, Del.) and Rivera. Senior Emily Schaffer (Hazlet, N.J.) made the score 11-6 with a single to right.
 
Dominican added two in the fifth on a triple and a ground out to extend its lead to 13-6. Freshman Demi Rivera (Hazlet, N.J.) doubled home a run in the sixth. Classmate Megan McCormack (Franklin Square, N.Y.) homered to lead off the seventh but the comeback stalled there.
 
Freshman Bridget Betley (Fairfield, N.J.) pitch well in relief, tossing 6.1 innings and striking out seven while allowing just two runs (one earned). Leyri Rivera went 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs.
 
Game Two – Dominican 4, Post 2
The Eagles led early in game two, scoring a run in the first on an error. Doubles by Devorin and Schaffer made the score 2-0 in favor of Post through three innings.
 
Dominican took the lead for good in the fourth as the first two batter doubled to drive in one run. A squeeze attempt by the Chargers failed as McCormack was able to tag out the runner at the pate for the first out of the inning. Another double cleared the bases and gave Dominican a 3-2 advantage. The Chargers added another run in the fifth on an error.
 
Post threatened in the bottom of the seventh as Devorin smacked a double off the wall in centerfield. Leyri Rivera lined a single off the pitcher to put runners at the corners with one out. A strikeout and a popup ended the game.
 
Junior Leslie Denis (Swanswa, Mass.) threw the first 4.1 and allowed seven hits and four runs while striking out two. Demi Rivera tossed the final 2.2 shutout innings with one strikeout and two hits.
 
Post has its only off day of the week tomorrow before it travels to Bloomfield for a CACC doubleheader on Wednesday beginning at 3 p.m.