Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two games that couldn't have been any more different ended up going the same way as the Cornell softball team was swept in a Wednesday afternoon doubleheader at George Washington, dropping 4-3 and 16-14 decisions. Cornell dropped to 8-15, while the Colonials moved to 13-19-1.

Game one was a pitcher's duel for six innings. Game two was a slugfest.  Neither saw the Big Red able to break through.

In the opener, Cornell rallied to tie the game with two runs in the seventh inning, but the host school was able to put across a run with a walkoff single. In the nightcap, 13 of the team's 14 runs came in just two innings, but GW was able to win the back-and-forth affair on the strength of 18 hits.

Cornell returns to action when it visits Yale on Friday, April 4 at 2 p.m. in New Haven, Conn.

Game One – Box Score (PDF)
With the game tied 1-1 heading into the sixth, George Washington scored twice to take the lead. The Big Red tied it up in the seventh, but a two-out RBI single in the bottom of the inning ended it and gave the home team the win.

Trailing 1-0 in the third, Cornell got on the board when Michiko McGivney homered to right on the second pitch she saw, continuing her hot start to the season. Jessica Bigbie's RBI single in the sixth was followed up one batter later by senior Christina Villalon, who tied the game with a bases loaded walk.

Both McGivney and Emily Weinberg went 2-for-3 on the day, while Meg Parker had a solid effort in the circle, scattering four hits and three earned runs over six innings of work.

Game Two – Box Score (PDF)
The Big Red scored seven runs in the top of the first, including bases clearing doubles by both Sophoe Giaquinto and Michiko McGivney, but George Washington plated six in the bottom of the inning and tied it with one in the second and the race was on.

The Colonials took a 9-7 lead after four, but Cornell put six more runs on the board in the fifth to go up 13-9. The big blow in the inning was a three-run homer by Lauren Bucolo. Both Jessica Bigbie and Christina Villalon singled in runs, while Giaquinto's sacrifice fly gave her four RBI on the afternoon.

Just like in the first, GW answered a big inning with one of their own, scoring five in the bottom of the frame to regain the lead, then added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth to enter Cornell's final at bat leading 16-13.

Cornell again tried to rally and scored once to cut into the deficit and stranded the bases loaded.

Five different Big Red hitters had two hits apiece, with Giaquinto hitting a pair of doubles and driving in four.