TUCSON –  The Eastern Connecticut State University softball team scored three runs in the top of the sixth to tie the game, but Dickinson College scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double by freshman cleanup hitter Kat Parise as the Warriors dropped a 5-4 decision on the way to two losses Friday afternoon .

In the second game, Hamline University (4-2) halted a two-game losing streak, scoring four runs in the fourth to break the game open and post a 7-3 victory over the Warriors.

Eastern (2-8), which lost six of its last seven and final three games on the trip, never led against Dickinson (3-8) -- which snapped a six-game losing streak – but pulled even with its three-run sixth inning on a leadoff double by freshman Sara Pisanelli (Wallingford), an RBI double by senior Gina Georgetti (Milford) and a two-run single by junior Jessica Seymour (Barkhamsted).

In the bottom of the sixth, Parise's RBI double was the only hit of the inning, which included an outfield error, sacrifice bunt and passed ball. Dickinson managed only five hits off three Eastern pitchers but benefitted from four Eastern errors.

Freshman lefty Jacky Arndt (Chelsmford, MA) was lifted after five batters, with freshman lefty Morgan Sanson (Thomaston) lasting until the fourth, when she was relieved by senior Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY), who dropped to 0-4 on the season with the loss.

With Eastern trailing 7-0 against Hamline, Pisanelli socked a two-run home run following senior Kelsey Mosher's (Oxford, MA) bunt single to get the Warriors on the scoreboard and sophomore Jackie Lewis's (Mystic) ground ball plated a seventh-inning run to round out the scoring.

Freshman righty Haleigh Cardello (Litchfield, NH) gave up two Piper runs in the first inning on sacrifice flies and was lifted after allowing a home run and single in the third in losing her first game in her first decision. Cardello (0-1) was charged with three runs in two innings on five hits and two walks. She did not strike out a batter. Valentine and Sanson closed out the game on the mound.

Georgetti and Seymour each had three singles in Eastern's ten-hit attack.