PHILADELPHIA- La Salle dropped both ends of a double-head on Sunday afternoon to George Mason to close out the weekend series. The Explores fell 6-4 in game one before dropped game two by a 9-6 score line.
 
Seven different Explorers recorded RBIs on the day including junior Kristin Martin who hit a pair of home runs in game two to knock in three RBI. The homers were the second and third of her career after she hit her first career homer earlier this season against St. Bonaventure.
 
Game one saw La Salle jump out to an early 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Junior Michelle Hagarty knocked in senior Kendra Heyer to start things off. Sophomore Valerie Pineiro then brought home Hagarty when she singled up the middle. Junior Suzanne Swanicke brought home junior Christina Bascara on a sac fly to make things 3-0 Explorers.
 
Mason cut into the lead in the top half of the second making it 3-1. However, the Explorers fought righty back when junior Lindsey Gaines singled home freshman Emma Schweigert to make it 4-1 after three innings.
 
The Patriots would respond right back scoring four runs in the fourth and one in the fifth to grab the opening game 6-4.
 
Sophomore McKenzie Peace (3-10) was straddled with the loss going 3.1 innings and allowing five runs.  
 
Game two again saw the Explorers grab an early lead before the Patriots battled back to grab the come-from-behind win.
 
After the Explorers fell behind 1-0 when the Mason leadoff hitter hit a homer, La Salle responded with three runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Bascara doubled home junior Mackenzie Obert, Hagarty scored on a wild pitch and Schweigert brought home Bascara on a ground out to make it a 3-1 La Salle lead.
 
George Mason went on a 5-0 run over the next three innings to grab a 6-3 lead in the top of the fourth. Martin responded with her first homer of the game a two-run shot to left that scored junior Tori Gollie.
 
Martin hit her second in the sixth with no one on to right center field to cut the lead to just two at 8-6. However, Mason added an insurance run in the top of the seventh and La Salle couldn't get anything going as they retired in order in the seventh to fell 9-6.
 
Val Buehler (0-2) took the loss allowing three runs, none of which were earned over 1.2 innings in relief.
 
La Salle returns to action on Wednesday as they head to St. Joes for a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.