SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts - The American International College softball team split a nonconference series with Post University on Tuesday, April 15, winning game one 7-6 before falling 9-5 in the finale.

AIC is now 9-15 on the season.

The Eagles led off the second inning of game one with a triple, and a subsequent single drove in the game's first run. A wild pitch and two hits later, Post held a 2-0 lead.

AIC quickly answered. Jilien Ayala led off with a single and swiped second, and Sammy Sanchez singled to left, driving in Ayala. Taylor Murphy walked, and Brooklyn Cividanes laid down a bunt to load the bases. Morgan Bemont then worked a walk, pushing Sanchez home and tying the game.

In the third, Nevaeh Trejo led off with a double into the left field corner. Two batters later, Sanchez drove her home, singling off the third baseman. Murphy worked another walk, and after the duo advanced on a wild pitch, Cividanes drove them both in with a single to left for a 5-2 AIC lead.

The Eagles scored an unearned run in the fifth as a runner reached on a two-base throwing error and then advanced and ultimately scored on two fly balls. AIC just as quickly answered, as Trejo led off with a walk, Sanchez singled, and Murphy smacked a double into the right-field corner, scoring Trejo.

Post put up a run in the sixth, and in the seventh put together an astounding two-out rally, with five hits and two runs to tie the game, although a potential go-ahead run was cut down at home as Deirdre Curley fired a perfect throw to Sanchez at the dish.

That set the stage for AIC to walk off in the seventh, and Julia Krijgsman doubled into the left-field corner to lead off. She was lifted for a pinch-runner, Isabelle Robinson. Ayala singled, and Murphy walked to load the bases, bringing Cividanes to the plate. The sophomore put together an all-out battle at the dish, fouling off pitch after pitch, until the fourteenth toss of the plate appearance missed for ball four, forcing in the winning run.

Krijgsman went 6.1 innings in the circle, allowing three earned of four total runs on nine hits with five strikeouts. 

In game two, Post again struck first, with a two-run shot in the third inning, but AIC countered with five runs as Bemont walked, Lauryn Ramalho singled up the middle, and Destiny McGrath walked to load the bases, Trejo singled in Bemont, Ramalho scored on a wild pitch, Ayala doubled home Trejo and McGrath, and Murphy singled through the right side to score Ayala.

In the fifth, the Eagles flew back to tie the game, scoring three runs with two outs on a bases loaded walk and two singles thereafter; in the sixth, a sacrifice fly put them ahead, and they added three in the seventh, all unearned, taking the 9-5 win.

Trejo totaled four hits in six plate appearances, while Cividanes and Sanchez also notched four hits apiece.

AIC returns to Northeast-10 Conference play on Friday, April 18 at Southern New Hampshire University.