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The UMass Lowell softball team dropped a pair of games on Sunday, with the first coming in an 11-3 defeat to Siena in five innings and later a heartbreaking 4-3 walk off win by Creighton.

The losses wrapped up a busy weekend of seven games in three days at the Rebel Games in Winter Haven, Fla. The River Hawks head back to Lowell with a record of 1-10.

"It was going to be a tough challenge these two days, but we're getting there," said Head Coach Sean Cotter. "We've made some lineup changes that have shown some really positive results."

In the front-end of the doubleheader, sophomore Brianna Martin (Methuen, Mass.) had a strong day at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a single and a double while batting in Alisha Welch (Langley, British Columbia) in the third inning.

Junior Daniele Crutcher (Londonderry, NH) pushed home the River Hawks second run in the fourth inning when she singled to right field.

UMass Lowell faced Creighton, last years Missouri Valley Conference regular season champion, to conclude their appearance at the Rebel games. The River Hawks and Blue Jays played a highly entertaining game, but came up short as they lost the game on a wild pitch in the final frame.

The River Hawks struck in the first inning when Emily O'Brien (Salem, N.H.) grounded out with runners on second and third pushing Martin through to go ahead 1-0. After the Blue Jays hit a solo homerun in bottom of the fourth, the River Hawks responded with a run of their own, capitalizing on a wild pitch by Creighton as Arianna Darcy (Wallkill, N.Y.) scored all the way from second base.

The drama unfolded in the seventh inning following a single by Darcy and a walk drawn by Abby Jamieson (Billerica, Mass.). With two outs, senior Ali Ferraro (Kingston, N.Y.) singled home Darcy to put the River Hawks ahead 3-2. Creighton came back, scoring the game tying run with no outs and won the game on a wild pitch with two outs on a play at the plate.

"We really talked about committing to one another and how hard that is," said Cotter. "When you do really commit to one another, and commit to leaving everything out there, and when you lose a heartbreaker like that, it makes it easier to go to sleep at night because we don't have anything else to leave out there."

The River Hawks will have five days off before heading down to Baltimore, Md., for the Coppin State Tournament.

"At the end of the trip there were a lot of positives," said Cotter. "Our first day we looked like a team that hadn't been outside in four weeks, but by the end of today we looked like a team that's ready to continue to compete."