SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – After managing only two hits in game one, the Union College softball team came back with the first six runs of game two as the Dutchwomen split a Liberty League doubleheader with Clarkson University on Saturday afternoon at Alexander Field. Clarkson took game one, 3-1, while Union won the back end, 7-3.
 
Sophomores Karson Saunders and Anna Zdunczyk led Union with three hits apiece on the day, with Zdunczyk also scoring twice and driving in a run.
 
Game 1: Clarkson 3, Union 1
 
The Union offense was shut down by Clarkson's Olivia Zoeller in game one, managing just two hits in a 3-1 defeat.
 
After a scoreless first inning, the Golden Knights recorded a pair of two-out runs in the second frame, getting RBI singles by Alyssa Schaechiner and Rylee LeBourvea, but Schaechiner was thrown out at third on LeBourvea's single to end the inning. Clarkson added one more run in the third inning, which was more than enough for Zoeller (12-3), whose only blemish was a one-out homer by Saunders in the sixth inning.
 
Senior Makayla Koehler (1-7) took the loss for Union despite allowing only three runs on six hits in five innings. Classmate Catie Raeter tossed two scoreless innings to finish off the game for the Dutchwomen.
 
Game 2: Union 7, Clarkson 3
 
The Dutchwomen pounded out 12 hits in the second game of the day, scoring in five of their six at-bats on the way to a 7-3 win.
 
Koehler worked around some early trouble in the first inning, stranding the bases loaded to keep the game scoreless. Senior Kendall Rogoff then led off the second inning with a double and immediately came home on an RBI single by sophomore Hannah Mitchell to put the home team ahead early.
 
Union added two more runs in the third, getting an RBI double off the bat of sophomore Olivia Valery, who later scored on a wild pitch. Two more runs followed in the fourth inning on back-to-back run-scoring base hits by Zdunczyk and Saunders, while the fifth inning saw sophomore Tara Hartnett drive home Rogoff for Union's sixth run.
 
Clarkson scraped together its only run of the game with an unearned tally in the top of the sixth, and that was quickly countered by a sacrifice fly from junior Julia Boule in the bottom half.
 
Koehler (2-7) got the start again in game two and again pitched well, allowing only six hits and one unearned run in six innings of work.
 
The Dutchwomen and Golden Knights will finish off their weekend series with two games in Potsdam tomorrow starting at 1 p.m.