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BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Gordon College received solid pitching performances from Mara Little and Kristen Brown on the way to results of 2-1 and 8-1 versus the University of New England in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) softball action Sunday (Apr. 25) at Nor'easter Diamond.

Despite the outcomes, UNE (5-4, 4-3 CCC) remains positioned for postseason play, with the second-best league winning percentage in the pod, behind first place Endicott College (9-1 CCC) and ahead of the Fighting Scots (10-13, 7-7 CCC), Suffolk University (6-7 CCC), and Wentworth (1-9 CCC).

Now having split this weekend's twinbills, with each capturing the road contests, Gordon and the Nor'easters are slated some non-conference matchups down in Wenham on Wednesday. 

After losing a 7th-inning lead in one of Saturday's setbacks, Little rebounded for her seventh win of the season in GAME 1 (GC 2-1). She surrendered eight hits (7 singles) and a walk, and the defense secured 12 outs on the ground and the other nine in the air.

A 2nd-inning run put the visitors in front. Arianna Ramsaran started with a single and moved to third after two outs, before Gabby Hunt singled up the middle. UNE had back-to-back singles with two away in the bottom of the frame, but could not answer.

Gordon stranded two in both the 4th and 5th, keeping the door open for the Nor'easters when it came their next turn. With two gone, Taylor Depot recorded the game's only extra-base hit, doubling down the line in left. Following a walk and stolen bases, Grace Tutt leveled the score with her second hit -- a single through the left side.

Hunt got the Fighting Scots going in the top of the 7th with another hit. A sacrifice moved her to second, before a two-out single to the wall in left-center by Karissa Hatchell sent the deciding run around. It was Hatchell's second hit to equal Hunt for the team lead.

Jordan Strum struck out four in the circle for UNE

Brown averaged less than nine pitches per inning over the initial six in GAME 2 (GC 8-1), and ended conceding just four hits and zero walks. The pitcher helped her own cause almost immediately, too, putting Gordon ahead in the 2nd with a two-run homer not far from the left-field foul pole.

Little drew a two-out walk in the 3rd, and Lily Rivera followed with a single. Both then scored to make it 4-0, as Ramsaran and Laura Bieren notched RBI-singles.

Kate Wilmot entered the circle for the Nor'easters in the 4th and kept things in check, alongside Brown, until the 7th. Little's second walk and Rivera's second hit allowed Ramsaran to come through with a two-RBI double to left-center. Brown drove in Ramsaran on a sacrifice fly to register a third RBI, and a one-out infield single by Hunt sent Bieren around to touch the plate for a second time.

UNE broke up Brown's shutout bid in the last chance. Depot led-off with an 11-pitch at-bat that finished with her standing 60 feet from home after a triple to the wall in left. Tutt lofted a sacrifice fly into right to knock in Depot.

Wilson fanned four in her three innings of work for the Nor'easters, and Wilmot registered two strikeouts the rest of the way.