CLERMONT, FLA.—The SUNY Potsdam softball team (3-3) fell to No. 24 MIT (6-0) 3-0 and Wellesley College (4-2) 10-4 on Tuesday afternoon in Florida. Freshman left fielder Lucy Condon (Kitchener, Ontario/St. David Catholic) was 5-for-6 on the day and senior shortstop Jordan Ott (Hilton, N.Y./Hilton) went 3-for-7 with two runs scored and her seventh career home run.
 
As in the first meeting on Sunday, today's Bears-Engineers matchup was a pitcher's duel. MIT left fielder Natalie Shifflet opened the scoring with an RBI single in the top of the second. Third baseman Deven Goetz made it 2-0 with another run-scoring hit in the fifth and designated player Sarah Von Ahn tacked on a final run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
 
The Bears threatened in the bottom of the sixth. Ott reached with a one-out walk. She was moved to second as Condon singled to right field. However, Engineers pitcher Ravenne Nasser was able to get a double play and escape the trouble.
 
Junior pitcher Meghan Dougherty (East Greenbush, N.Y./Columbia) (0-1) went the distance for the Bears, allowing three earned runs on 10 hits and four walks. Nasser improved to 3-0 after scattering three hits, two walks and striking out eight.
 
 
The Bears offense started quickly against the Blue. Ott led off the contest with an inside the park home run. Several batters later, freshman first baseman Day Stevens (Ravena, N.Y./Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk) made it 2-0 with a single to right that scored freshman pitcher Megan Fish (Getzville, N.Y./Williamsville North). Wellesley tied the game in the bottom of the first as first baseman Veronica Locher laced a two-run single to right field.
 
The Blue added two more runs in the second and the fourth to build a 6-2 lead. Wellesley scored on a wild pitch and a sac fly from catcher Ashtyn Coleman in the second. In the fourth, third baseman Kendall Smith stole home and center fielder Anna Pisac scored on an error.
 
Potsdam closed to within 6-4 in the top of the fifth. Sophomore center fielder Brooke Falsion (Brockport, N.Y./Brockport) reached and scored on an error. Ott then singled before scoring on another error. In the bottom of the inning, Smith drove in an unearned run with a single to left to put the Blue back up 7-4.
 
Wellesley added three more runs with an RBI double and two RBI singles in the bottom of the sixth to close the scoring at 10-4.
 
Fish received a no-decision for the Bears after allowing four runs, two earned, on three hits and a walk in 1.2 innings pitched. Sophomore Alissa McCauley (Malone, N.Y./Franklin Academy) (1-2) was tagged with the loss after giving up six runs, five earned, on six hits and four walks in 3.1 innings. Dougherty allowed two hits and struck out one in an inning. Blue pitcher Julia Warner (2-0) allowed four runs, one earned, on nine hits. She struck out five.
 
Potsdam wraps up its Florida trip tomorrow morning when the Bears face NESCAC foe Middlebury College at 9 a.m.