AMHERST, Mass. – Michelle Hagarty hit her 27^th career home run to tie the all-time program record in a La Salle (19-23, 7-12 A-10) win in the opening game of the series at Massachusetts (23-20, 11-4 A-10) on Saturday afternoon at Sortino Field. The Explorers took the opener 6-5 before the Minutewomen evened the series with a 6-5 win in game two.

La Salle 6, Massachusetts 5
Hagarty hit the game-tying homer in the 6^th inning in the comeback victory for La Salle. The homer tied her with Megan Hodgson for the all-time program record.

Mackenzie Obert then nailed a two-run homer to cap a three-run 6^th and put La Salle in the lead for good. McKenzie Peace (W, 6-3) pitched the final 2.2 innings to earn the win. UMass scored in the 7^th to get within a run before Peace stranded the tying run at 2^nd to end the game.

La Salle got out to a 1-0 lead on a Christina Bascara single in the 1^st before UMass scored twice in the 3^rd and once more in the 4^th to take a lead. The Explorers tied it in the 5^th when Bascara was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and Taylor Rohrbaugh hit a sac fly.

UMass regained the lead in their half of the 6^th to set the stage for the late game heroics.  

Massachusetts 6, La Salle 5
The Minutewomen scored twice in the bottom of the 7^th to erase a 5-4 La Salle lead and steal a win in walkoff fashion in game two. 

La Salle entered the top of the 7^th trailing 4-3 but scored twice to take a 5-4 lead. Suzanne Swanicke tied the game at 4-4 with a single to right with the bases loaded before Christina Bascara plated the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly.

Lindsey Gaines drilled a three-run homer to tie the game at 3-3 in the 4^th before Massachusetts regained the lead in the 5^th. UMass had taken a 3-0 lead in the 1st. 

La Salle will go for the series win in the rubber match on Sunday afternoon at Sortino Field. First pitch is set for noon.