Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Cornell softball team topped defending Northeast Conference champion Robert Morris 3-2 before falling in game two to reigning Big South champ Radford 7-5 in eight innings on day one of the USF-City of Clearwater Spring Invitational on Saturday afternoon. The Big Red sits at 4-6 after the split.

The Big Red scored one in the fourth and two in the sixth, then held off a late Robert Morris rally in the opener. Erin Belles was 2-for-3 with all three RBI, including a two-run home run to right in the sixth that proved to be the difference. She also singled down the leftfield line to get Cornell on the board.

Onyon scattered just five hits in the contest, though both runs and three of the hits came in the final frame for the Colonials. Samantha Santillo hit a two-run homer with no one out in the seventh, but after a single, Onyon induced a double play on a bunt and then a pop-up to end the game and win her fourth contest of the year in the circles.

Christina Villalon was 2-for-2 and both Meg Parker and Linda Laeufer each had singles in the opener.

Cornell opened a 2-0 lead, then fell behind 5-2, then tied it at 5-5 in the sixth before falling in extra innings in game two. Using the international tiebreaker in the eighth, Radford scored a pair of runs in the top half of the inning. The Big Red loaded the bases with one out in the bottom the eighth, but could not push across any runs.

Villalon was 3-for-4 as the Big Red pounded out 15 hits as a team. Bucolo had a pair of hits, as did Meg Parker, Jenny Edwards and Leanne Iannucci.

Sammy Roth took the hard-luck loss after entering the game down 5-2. She held Radford in place over better than four innings before the reigning Big South champions broke through.

The Big Red will complete the two-day event with three contests on Sunday beginning at 9:30 a.m. against QUinnipiac. Cornell will stay on the field for an 11:45 a.m. contest against Valparaiso and closes out against Boston College at 1:45 p.m.