WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Cornell softball team lost a pair of contests on day one of the George Washington Colonial Classic, dropping a 10-0, five-inning contest to UMBC and a 6-2 matchup with Manhattan on Saturday.
 
Game One
The Retrievers scored seven in the first and three times in the second while scratching out just three hits. Freshman Olivia Rooney was 2-for-2 with a pair of doubles and Erin Rockstroh added a hit, while rookie Miranda Lawson walked twice in the loss. Ashley Delany hurled two scoreless innings in the circle, scattering a pair of hits and striking out one.
 
Game Two
Freshman Miranda Lawson was 3-for-4, while classmate Allison Kerce went 2-for-3 with a walk, but Manhattan's three-run fourth put the Jaspers ahead for good. Lisa Nelson went the distance in the circle, allowing six runs and six hits in six innings of work.
 
After falling behind 1-0 in the first, Cornell plated a run in the second with Lawson scoring on a pair of wild pitches after a one-out double. The Jaspers took control in the fourth, with a pinch-hit two-run double by Jessie Rising proving to be the big blow. Trailing 6-1 entering the sixth, the Big Red loaded the bases with one out and scratched across a run on an infield single by Lawson, but that was all they could plate.
 
The Big Red will play a pair of contests on Sunday with a 9 a.m. matchup with Canisius before another matchup with Manhattan at 1 p.m.