4/5/25
 
GEORGETOWN, Del. – Self-inflicted mistakes and a quiet day at the plate spelled doom for Lackawanna College softball on Saturday afternoon, as the Falcons fell in a pair of games to Delaware Tech CC, 9-1 and 9-0, in Region XIX Division II action in southern Delaware.
 
The Falcons (17-17, 4-4) managed just seven combined hits and only one run across eleven complete innings. Meanwhile, the defense committed five errors, and the Falcons issued seven walks across two games to Delaware Tech (17-3, 9-1).
 
In game one, Laniah Tasker (Chambersburg, PA) had a pair of hits and the lone RBI on the day, but the Falcons committed five errors in the field and starter Jillian Heimberger was tagged for nine runs, three earned, on ten hits in six innings.
 
Lackawanna stranded two runners in the first inning, and Del Tech made the Falcons pay in the bottom frame. After an initial ground out, a second grounder up the middle caused an error on the infield and let Del Tech get a baserunner. An RBI double followed to score the first run of the game. The Falcons got a fly out to left to put two away, but another double to left, followed by a single to center, scored two runs to make it 3-0, DTCC. Heimberger eventually got a third out on a liner to center to strand a pair.
 
Del Tech loaded the bases in the bottom of the second, but a force out at home, then back-to-back pop outs stranded the bases loaded and gave the Falcons a bit of momentum into the third inning. A bunt single from Isabella Rodriguez (Lancaster, PA) gave Lackawanna a baserunner with one out, and Laniah Tasker delivered her home with a two-out single to left to get the Falcons on the board and cut the deficit to 3-1.
 
Into the bottom of the third, A one-out liner to right got by the outfield and bounced around long enough for Del Tech to get an inside-the-park home run to recapture the momentum. Heimberger got a pop out for the second out of the inning, but hit the next batter, then let her advance all the way to third on two wild pitches. Del Tech scored that run with a triple to center to extend their lead to 5-1 after three innings.
 
Both teams were quiet in the fourth, and the Falcons were retired in order again in the top of the fifth, but DTCC added another pair of runs in the bottom half, thanks to a pair of two-out errors on the Falcons, giving DTCC the 7-1 lead entering the sixth inning.
 
Heimberger reached on a leadoff single in the sixth, but a double play ball to second ended any potential rally hopes for the Falcons. Into the bottom of the sixth, a hit batter got the home side a baserunner, and they scored that run on a double to left, then scored the game-winning run on a single to left to end the game via run rule.
 
Game two wasn't any better for Lackawanna, as the Falcons had just three hits and stranded their only four runners through the game. Starter Brianna Dinice (Terryville, CT) was tagged with the loss, giving up seven runs, all earned, on two hits in two innings, walking four and striking out four. She also had one of the three hits for the Falcons, with Heimberger and Gracie Sokol (Belle Vernon, PA) adding one hit, each.
 
Dinice breezed through the first inning, but things broke down in the bottom of the second. Back-to-back walks, followed by a hit batter, loaded the bases with nobody out. Dinice issued a bases-loaded walk to force in the first run of the game, then gave up another bases-loaded walk, this time with one out, to make it 2-0, Del Tech. A two-run single to left scored a pair, then Dinice struck out a batter to get two down. Del Tech wouldn't let Dinice get away, however, without a big blow, as DTCC crushed a three-run homer to left on a liner that made it 7-0, Del Tech, after two innings.
 
The Falcons got their first two baserunners in the third inning, but the Falcons struck out and grounded out to strand the pair. In the bottom half, Mia Scalese (Moscow, PA) stepped into the pitching circle and pitched around a two-out walk with a pair of strikeouts to keep the home team off the board.
 
Two more singles for the Falcons in the fourth gave them a pair of baserunners with one out, but a ground out and a strikeout stranded another pair of runners and prevented Lackawanna from getting on the board.
 
Scalese got around any trouble in the bottom half of the fourth with a pair of strikeouts, but Del Tech broke through for the run-rule victory in the fifth, getting a two-out single and then a walk-off two-run homer to center that ended things in five innings.
 
The Falcons are now 4-4 in Region XIX Division II play, and they remain in third place in the region standings. They'll get back to action with another road doubleheader on Sunday, April 6^th, as Lackawanna will head to Corning, NY to take on the Division III #6 team in the land, the SUNY Corning CC Red Barons. First pitch of the non-region doubleheader is set for 1:00pm ET.